Speed Up HR Tasks with Process Street’s New Slack App

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How many different tabs do you have open on your computer or laptop, right now?

I bet it’s a lot.

Let me guess. You’ve probably got one open for your emails, one for your social media, one for Slack, and another for Process Street?

And, maybe you’ve also got tabs open for your HR management system, your recruitment software, your reporting platform, your payroll service, your employee engagement tool, and…well, the list could go on and on and on.

Am I right?

But, this makes finding the tab you need when you need it virtually impossible, it slows your computer…right…down, and even the simplest HR tasks can end-up taking twice as long.

“Too many tabs, in almost any web browser, will lead to overtaxed computer memory, a reduction in battery life, and, for sure, a cluttered browser workspace.” – Forbes, Too Many Tabs Open: Save Your PC Or Mac From Overheating

What if there was a way to speed up your HR tasks? What if you could get all your task notifications and updates in one, central place instead of several? What if you could improve communication with your team and spend less time waiting or chasing for updates and more time on the things that matter?

Interested?

Allow me to introduce you to our newest feature, built for Slack lovers: The Process Street Slack App. Just click the button below to add it to your Slack!

Read on to discover how the Process Street Slack App can speed up your HR tasks as we whizz through the following:

Let’s get cracking.

How our new Slack App helps you get HR tasks done faster

The new Process Street Slack App feature removes unnecessary steps, increases accountability, and improves productivity.

How?

The Process Street Slack App puts the right information in front of you, at the right time

Juggling your day-to-day task list, taking care of your company’s employees, and keeping track of what your team is doing and where they’re up to with their HR tasks can be difficult.

As we established earlier, to stay afloat and on top of all your responsibilities, you often end up multi-tasking with a million different tabs open. Which is confusing, not to mention counter-productive.

Instead of using several different platforms to manage your employees and your HR tasks and team, wouldn’t life be easier if all the information you needed was right there, in front of you, in one central place?

Instead of constantly checking your emails, accessing your checklist dashboard, or opening up your HR checklists to see what tasks you need to work on; what tasks others need to work on; when tasks are due; if tasks are on track; if someone has mentioned you in a task, or if a task needs your approval, you’ll receive a notification in Slack.

With the Slack App, you can:

Communicate with the entire company
Get instant updates on progress
Request items from the team
Review work
Action tasks
Complete checklists
Approve or reject items

Regardless of where you are, what time it is, or what device you’re on, you’ll get the information you need, when you need it.

Handy hint: You can cut down even further on the number of tabs you have open by connecting your Process Street templates to the HR tools, software, and platforms you use, via one of our Webhook or Zapier integrations. Automate your manual tasks and keep track of the transfer of information through Slack.

Watch this webinar for more information on how to automate your HR tasks:

The Process Street Slack App allows you to approve or reject tasks on-the-go

Building a solid approval process into your Process Street HR workflows stops important decisions from being made without your input.

But, with a million-and-one HR tasks, employees, and team members to manage, crucial approval tasks can easily be missed.

Not with the Process Street Slack App.

Not only will you be notified in Slack when a key decision needs your input, but you’ll be able to approve or reject it there and then, with one quick click.

To summarize: How Process Street can help you do HR tasks better

In a nutshell, the Process Street Slack App connects Process Street to your Slack account, so you’re notified when something needs your attention.

If you’re familiar with Process Street’s HR software, you’ll know that you can use it to create standardized templates for all your recurring HR tasks: From onboarding new hires and updating procedures to interviewing new candidates and supporting career growth. You can then run individual checklists from those templates each time you need to complete a process.

For instance, you could create an employee onboarding template (like the one below), and run a new checklist from this template each time you need to onboard a new employee:

(To get this checklist, log in and add it to your account, or sign up for a free trial).

And, if you’re familiar with Slack, you’ll know that you and your HR team can use it to send and receive messages, documents, links, and notifications, instantly, from wherever you are.

The Process Street Slack App connects your Process Street HR task checklists to your Slack account, so you can receive instant notifications when:

Tasks are due
Someone assigns you to a task
You’re mentioned in a task
Your approval is needed for a task

Speaking of approvals, not only will you receive a notification when a task needs your approval, but you’ll also be able to approve or reject it, directly from within Slack.

That’s what the Process Street Slack App is, but how can it help you with your HR tasks?

How Sue manages her HR tasks with Process Street’s Slack App

Meet Sue. Sue heads up the HR department of a large financial organization with over 2,000 employees.

To help her manage her workload, and her team of five, Sue uses Process Street’s HR software.

She’s created workflows for everything. From onboarding new employees and managing HR SLA’s, to planning resources for the year ahead and creating training plans.

But, Sue was struggling to keep track of her workload, her employees, and her team of five.

She spent most of her time checking what tasks had or hadn’t been done, chasing people to complete their HR tasks, asking for updates, and making her way through a backlog of approval tasks that she’d been assigned to without realizing.

She felt overstretched, overwhelmed, and completely over it.

Until we introduced her to the new Process Street Slack App.

Now, with one quick glance at Slack, she knows exactly which tasks need her attention, who she needs to speak to, what tasks need her approval, and whether she needs to take any action.

For instance, when she’s onboarding a new employee, Sue can assign the onboarding checklist to the new hire and forget all about it.

She doesn’t need to keep track of the checklist or chase for updates. She can relax knowing she’ll receive a notification when something needs her attention, or if she needs to take action.

With Process Street’s Slack App, she’s now able to focus on the bigger, more important HR tasks, rather than spending her time sweating the small stuff.

But, the real beauty of Process Street’s Slack App is that it’s totally free and it’s incredibly easy to set up…

How to get Process Street’s Slack App & start streamlining your HR tasks

Process Street’s Slack App is free, it’s available on all plans, and it’s for all users.

To get it, make sure you’re logged into your Process Street account, then click here:

Click “Allow” and your Process Street account will be connected to Slack.

That’s it! It really is that simple.

Once you’re connected, you’ll see the Process Street logo in the bottom left of your Slack account, and you’ll start to receive notifications for:

Assignments
Due dates
Approvals
Mentions

Feel free to read more about the set-up and how to use the Slack App here.

What happens if you have more than one organization?

Process Street’s Slack App is set up per organization. So, if you manage more than one organization within Process Street, then you’ll need to switch to each organization and follow the above installation process to connect all your organizations to Slack.

Once you’ve added all your organizations, you’ll start to receive Slack notifications from each one.

What happens if you don’t have a Slack account?

You can set up Slack for your organization in seconds. All you need to do is create a workspace, which you can find out how to do by reading this article.

What happens if you don’t have a Process Street account?

Not a Process Street user yet? Not to worry. Either book a demo with one of our team or sign up for a free trial (no credit card required).

Read this article and watch this quick video to see what Process is and what it can do to help you manage your HR tasks.

And there we have it. Use Process Street’s new Slack App to speed up your HR tasks, improve team collaboration, and cut down on the number of tabs you have open!

Here’s to a more productive day!

We’d love to hear what you think about the new Process Street Slack App in the comments below. Tell us how you use it to speed up your HR tasks and who knows? You may even get featured in an upcoming article!

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