Reason # 1. Project management.

Is it necessary to manage projects? Sure, it is. Indeed, it is quite normal in many companies when a manager has a large table with a lot of papers and small notes on it. The computer is on with whole MS EXCEL spreadsheets of immense task lists displayed on the screen, let alone OUTLOOK with its poor scheduler. You try to keep everything in sight and not to miss anything because it may result in financial losses.

Many of you are familiar with this state of things. The LeaderTask organizer was developed just in order to avoid such situations. First of all, this software product is designed to clearly structure tasks within your duties. LT clearly arranges all that and offers you a visual overview of tasks.

First, the global list of areas you deal with is defined. This data is located on the "Categories" tab on the left navigation panel. For example, they may look like this for a software company: software development, design, promotion, technical support. No matter what projects the company is engaged in, the list of categories may remain unchanged. So, the first stage in the elimitation of business chaos is over.

The next stage is filling the list of the projects (the "Projects" tab) the company is engaged in. After you select a certain project, a visual grid of tasks in the tree-like form appears and each task belongs to a certain area of activity in it.

It is possible to filter tasks by various criteria: categories, contacts, dates, etc. You can sort tasks by any field, move tasks inside the heirarchy of levels.

Thus, we are near the next logical question related to business management.

Reason # 2. Staff management.

Is it necessary to manage employees? Sure, it is. You have to know what every particular employee is busy with and how much this employee will have to complete in near future. It would be great to know how well an employee copes with his tasks and decide whether to pay him a bonus or to fire.

First, add all employees' contact inforamtion to "Contacts". Then you can assign a person responsible for every project or for a separate list of tasks. This way you distribute duties among employees.

Later you can select anyone from the contact list and you will see a clear list of tasks and directions this person is working on and how much time there is left till they are completed.

You can also view analytic statistics by each employee: how many tasks are assigned, how many tasks are completed, what is the workload among other employees.

Thus, LeaderTask just excludes anything chaotic from your business and provides visual control over how your employees work.

Reason # 3. No routine.

How to avoid routine and increase efficiency? The LeaderTask organizer is an indispensible assitant for the head of an organization and you can burden this assitant with a lot of duties. But it will not do without your help in solving some specific problems.

Let us see what should be done for a software product to help to defeat the most destructive factor for effeciency - routine.

The most important thing to begin with is giving priorities to each task you are responsible for. You can use the "Priority library" to prepare a list of marks. After that you should set the corresponding mark for each task.

As a result, you can just filter out all everyday routine tasks and get down to the most important tasks with high priority. But it does not mean that less important tasks do not get enough attention.

You can delegate responsibility in order to throw off the shackles of secondary tasks.

In other words, when you assign noncritical secondary tasks to your employees, you free yourself from routine. And you have time for tasks with high priority.

It should be noted that the calendar is of great help. It helps to understand what should be urgently done today (not very important, but urgent) and what can wait till next week (important, but not urgent).

You can use sliding periods in the calendar and groups by priorities to solve the most important and pressing tasks. When you solve critically important tasks in the first place and delagate time-consuming routine to employees, you increase your personal efficiency.

Reason # 4. Secure information storage.

Is it possible to keep everything in mind? No, you cannot keep everything in mind. All kinds of thoughts and ideas related to some task occur to you during the day. And as a rule, a person makes notes on small sheets of paper that may turn into heaps of waste paper that will be hard to rummage through on the next day already.

LeaderTask comes in handy with its system of notes and does not allow such situations. It is possible to enter an explanatory note for any category, project or task. So when you get down to solving this task some time later, this feature allows you to look through your "thoughts" or additional supplementary information. It will help you get the full image that is necessary to solve the problem.

It is not a secret that the amount of work is constantly growing throughout the day - phone calls, e-mail messages and so on. It is very easy to miss something important in this situation. There are "Reminders" for you to avoid it. Not to forget to deal with an important task, you can set an alarm clock in its properties for a certain time. After you do it, a popup text message with a sound signal will appear at the due moment. It will remind you what should be done.

Reason # 5. Always with you.

Does LeaderTask have any additional useful features? Of course, it does. Thus, it is possible to use it as a wallet or a password manager.

Data protection is also on a high level. Passwords are used to restrict access to the program. The backup system is responsible for data safety. It is possible to import a contact database from Outlook.

If you are on a trip, there are two ways out: either you have LeaderTask on your laptop computer or you can always take a printout of the most up-to-date tasks (a kind of reminder). Also, you can freely move a copy of your database from one computer to another.

Leader Task offers absolutely everything a modern businessman may need: reminders about important meetings, a scheduler, an address book and also a secure storage for confidential information.