In Large Inc’s Enterprise Grid design, each business unit has its own workspace, and everyone is also a member of the Global workspace. The Sales team at Large Inc are slow adopters of Slack and have been using email instead of Slack to communicate with peers.
Which of these strategies should the Sales team AVOID using to connect cross-functionally more effectively with Slack?
Jose works at Globex and is a Slack administrator and Champion.
He receives several Slack direct messages per day from employees looking for more information on a range of topics, such as how to connect apps to their Slack workspace and where to find training materials.
Jose wants to encourage Slack best practices among employees. Which course of action should Jose take in this situation?
Andrew is a Workspace Owner and head of HR for a government agency in Munich, Germany. As the head of HR, he manages all aspects of human resources in order to create an engaged workforce and resilient organization.
The HR teams use a variety of technologies, and leadership is implementing a new integrated tool to improve collaboration and productivity. While the tool has many benefits, the adoption rate has been slow due to a lack of internal awareness.
Andrew wants to convince leadership that he needs internal Slack advocates who can lead and support co- workers through the transition. He has a few people in mind who he would nominate as Champions.
Which options appropriately describe Champions? (Choose all that apply.)
Large Inc is launching Enterprise Grid. They have decided to create a workspace for each line of business, and one workspace for social channels. Members are assigned to two workspaces, but are allowed to join other workspaces if they want to.
What is the main benefit of this Grid design?
Asher manages a global workplace and facilities team. Currently, his team receives all global requests in a channel called #help-workplace. Because the channel now receives hundreds of requests per day, the support team asks Asher if they can create regional channels to make triaging requests more manageable.
How should Asher respond to this request?
A few months ago, a team of developers at Blue Inc identified a new issue during testing and created a public channel called #bug-cricket to communicate about the issue. After some casual conversation back and forth in the channel, the team discovered that a problem with the old architecture caused this bug.
They may need to reference the history in the future.
Of note, there has not been any new activity in #bug-cricket for months, and the bug case has been closed. What should the team do with #bug-cricket?
Paul leads an accounting team and is implementing a new expense reporting system.
He wants to update employees on the status of the system’s rollout to different offices. He also wants to post links to help articles and online trainings that the team can use as resources. However, he wants to maintain control over the flow of information for these updates and would like to minimize off-topic discussion.
Which of the following would help him achieve his goal?
Bella is a Workspace Admin at a company with 3,500 employees. She is receiving complaints from her colleagues that "Slack is too noisy". Her team is bothered by frequent use of @here and @channel in public channels. She has never evaluated or changed the default settings, so she wants to change how those notifications work in her workspace.
How can Bella change her workspace’s messaging restrictions to minimize disruption?
Britt is a Workspace Admin who created a public channel called #bread-buds for co-workers who enjoy bread- making.
The company has had new team members join, and the conversation has become more general about all types of carbohydrates. Britt decides it's time to expand the channel. Rather than rename it, Britt creates a new channel #carbohydrate-chats to be inclusive and start fresh with activity. At the same time, Britt want to keep #bread-buds so the team can reference baking instructions that have been gathered over the past few years, but she doesn't want anyone posting in it.
What should Britt do?