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About departments

You’ll see the terms “departments” and “teams” used interchangeably in this Notion setup. Each department has a page. This is used for an overview of what people in the department are doing and their projects. To get to a department go to the company home page and click on it in the list. The department page is only to be used for managing teams. Everyone should be using their dashboard to do tasks, manage projects, and everything else.

Department members

Adding new members

<aside> ⚠️ Do not add new staff members by adding them to the “Department members” view. Staff members should only be added using your Business page. See Adding new staff to Notion

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To add an existing staff member to your department:

From the department page, click on “n more properties” to show the “People” property. Then click on the “+” next to a person to search for the staff member. Click on the “+” next to them.

From the staff member’s page, click on “n more properties” to show the “Department” property. Then click on the “+” next to a department to search for the new department. Click on the “+” next to it.

To remove a department member, do the reverse by clicking on the “-” sign next to the person or department you want to remove.

Inactive members

This property shows when there are people in the department that are not assigned or reviewing any tasks that are currently “Ready to do” in that task’s “Progress” property. This might mean that:

• The tasks they are working on are not related to the department. This is often best managed in the “People and teams” view in projects, or in the Workload Manger. See Managing Workloads
• The work that they are doing is not being managed inside your Notion Setup.
• They have capacity to take on more work. Use the workload manager to re-assign tasks.
• They may no longer be in the department.

Missing from department

This property shows when are people assigned or reviewing tasks that are currently “Ready to do”. This might mean that:

• The task they are doing should not be related to this department.
• The wrong person has been assigned to the task.