10 Slack apps to build strong and engaged teams in 2021

Working Remote means scheduling synchronous meetings can be tedious. That's where Standuply comes into the picture with asynchronous meetings via text, mail, voice and video. Standuply has several data integrations including Google Analytics, Jira and Gitlab. More than 35K+ teams use Standuply making it one of the most widely used Slack apps.

To beat the blues of remote work, Ricotta Trivia lets you host quizzes from a set of 5000+ questions and 10+ fun categories each. Ricotta helps teams to boost employee morale and engagement with weekly contests and daily trivia. Ricotta Trivia has custom icebreakers and games like this or that and 2 truths and 1 lie.

Polly is a widely used Slack integration for employee engagement surveys and pulses that give real-time results on Slack. It comes with an independent dashboard, as opposed to typical forms and survey tools. Polly has additional functionality of multi-question polls, check-ins, standups, onboarding feedback and social games like trivia and hot takes.

Align & engage your team using Ricotta on Slack. Start using the OKR goal-setting framework in your organization to set ambitious goals and measurable key results. Great for setting clear goals, promoting transparency and increasing employee engagement, Ricotta enables teams that work from home and remote teams to collaborate effectively. On Ricotta teams can as well track their weekly tasks and to do items without leaving Slack.

Donut helps keep teams connected and productive. Donut is an apt tool for remote teams to quell the sense of isolation. It helps teammates introduce themselves with watercooler topics, and also schedule virtual coffee meetings. There is also a dashboard which reports meeting analytics. Donut helps run peer mentorship programs and job shadowing. Lot of in app nudges helps companies build a great internal culture

Wellbee is an extremely easy to use Slack app. Pulse surveys is the easiest method to get employee feedback that is later presented with analytics like NPS and other important engagement metrics and segmentation analytics. All of this data can be used to improve employee satisfaction and morale.

Once you connect Strava to your Slack channel, it will start reposting all your athletic activities and the auxiliary data along with time, distance, map screenshot. The best part is that all the proceeds of this app goes to The New York road runners organisation.

Someone starts the lunch train when they are hungry, the others can opt to board it or get off the train! It's as simple as that. Lunchtrain enables teams to plan lunch without cluttering the channel or spamming. A quick slash command and you are all set for a delicious meal (hopefully!)

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Office vibe is a perfect tool to understand the mood of the employee and figure out what they care about, and take action based on this feedback.  It has automated pulse surveys based on which it generates analytics report and has effective feedback via one on ones and an additional feature of employee development suite which helps teams plan goals together.

Build a strong team culture by showing appreciation with easy commands for company values and mission. Teams can convert Karma points to rewards internally and set monthly goals on Karmas given etc. All of this is summarised in a neat analytics report.