1,001 Business Problems Solved with Microsoft Teams
In each bite-sized episode, we solve common business challenges using Microsoft Teams. Tune in for quick, actionable solutions—usually about six minutes per episode! If you’re short on time (like most business owners and managers are), feel free to jump directly to episodes that promise solutions to problems you’re having this very moment. Microsoft Teams is more than a chat and meeting platform. It is a problem-solving beast!
Episodes
What if you have successfully moved your employees to Teams, getting them to always send Teams chat messages and channel posts rather than emails, but their customers, vendors, and other external people continue using email?
Isn't that confusing?
Well, not really. In today's episode, Annie explains why and also tells you how to begin converting your external contacts to also move to Teams if they're open to it.
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SharePoint Lists are our favorite Microsoft 365 app to add to Microsoft Teams. As a business owner or leader, you'll love how Lists can streamline and standardize many things you currently keep in spreadsheets or email.
From building your own CRM to tracking the status of complex projects or office processes, there is no doubt you'll find many efficient uses for Lists around your business.
Everybody uses spreadsheets in their business. It's a tried and true way to track items and organize data in a meaningful way.
But, did you know there is a much better way to organize spreadsheet information when you have multiple people using and/or consuming the information?
SharePoint lists have been around for more than twenty years, but most businesses don't have a clue what they do or how they can help. This episode will expo...
After describing the problem most businesses face in Part 1 of this two-part series, Annie is back to tell you both the benefits of going all in on Microsoft Teams, as well as the four time-tested steps for succeeding with your own deployment.
Going all in on Teams is like acting on a hot stock tip that actually pans out.
Most businesses - especially smaller businesses - do not know about the transformative powers of Microsoft Teams. They may use Teams for video meetings and a little bit of chat, but they don't strategically leverage it to transform their businesses.
This is the first of a two-part series on why Teams is worth going all-in on.
How many times have you scrambled to give someone access to a shared workgroup file? How many times has someone accidentally been given access to a sensitive file? How often have you resented trying to figure out how to set permissions?
Or are you just sick of the mental clutter of having to keep so many shared files straight in your head?
In this episode, Annie Rynd tells you how to set permissions one time and never have to worry...
Are you an early adopter, or perhaps just someone who sees the great value of Teams to a workgroup but feel you don't have the authority to do anything about it?
Well fear not. In all likelihood, you can do something about it! This week, Annie tells you how to improve your workgroup's effectiveness with Teams, even if you are a lower-level manager in a large corporation or even if you're an individual contributor with no authority.
...In today's Part Two of helping you master solving the problem of multiple topics running together in a chat thread. While it is very handy for all conversations with a person (or people) to be contained in a single container - the chat thread - finding old messages seems to be too much trouble.
Today, hostess Annie tells you how to very quickly find old messages and how to resurrect the discussion in a neat way. She also shares som...
Today, on our 50th episode, hostess Annie tells you not only how to solve your issue of topics getting jumbled into a long Teams group chat, but also how to build an incredible knowledge base for your staff or workforce.
Whether you manage thousands, hundreds, dozens, or just two employees, this episode will help you improve the knowledge level of your organization.
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A simple, but effective goal for any business is to elevate all knowledge workers, or computing employees, to the proficiency level of your best computing employee. Additionally, there are unknown workgroup improvement opportunities lurking in the daily computing habits of individual employees.
In today's episode - which is the second installment in the series - hostess Annie tells you how to conduct a work habits audit to identify...
On today's episode, Annie reveals how any business can improve efficiency and individual employee effectiveness by conducting Work Habit Audits.
If you're a business owner or manager who knows intuitively that your employees are not as good on their computers and working seamlessly together as they should be, this is the episode for you.
Work habit audits can smoke out inefficiencies that can often be quickly improved!
Who should own Teams in your organization? Answering this question correctly is the first step in improving your business with Teams.
Whether you own your own business or manage a single department in a large organization, it is vital that someone actively own and improve Teams.
Here's a spoiler. It's not the IT department!
Should you use chat or channel posts? What's the difference? Doesn't it just confuse things to have two different ways to communicate in Teams?
Well, the answer is a resounding no! As a business owner or leader, channel posts will become one of your favorite means of improving your organization.
This episode is a must-listen if you're not currently leveraging channel posts, or not leveraging them in a way you find useful!
So many organizations are not impressed with Teams chat and that's unfortunate. At the same time they claim to be overwhelmed by their email burden, they can't see the forest for the trees when trying to make the switch to Teams chat.
When a workgroup effectively transitions fully to Teams chat and channel posts, nobody ever wants to return to the old ways.
In this episode, Annie makes inarguable case for going all-in on Teams and ...
Finding repetitive work and automating it is perhaps the simplest way to explain low-hanging fruit. In this episode, Annie tells you one of the easiest things to improve and automate - meeting preparation.
This is a short episode that is sure to be useful to nearly all organizations!
Today's low-hanging fruit episode is all about managing workgroup tasks.
If you feel as though your workgroups don't have enough accountability for completing tasks, or if you don't think your workgroups' tasks are accessible enough (buried in separate files) this one is for you.
The new year brings a Teams success revelation because of a LinkedIn comment made by everyone's favorite business consultant, Alan Weiss.
This comment was so eureka (is eureka an adjective?) that we've even added a new fourth step to our long-standing Teams success formula. What is that revelation?
It's simple, you can do it with little added personal investment, and it will transform your collaborative and informational processes....
In Part 4 of the Low-Hanging Fruit series, Annie tells you about one of our favorite low-hanging fruits - tracking spreadsheets.
If you're like most businesses, you have many tracking spreadsheets, several of which suffer from clunkiness and errors caused by multiple employees using them.
Tune in to this episode to learn how to bring those 1900s-era spreadsheets into this century and streamline one of the real time-eaters in busine...
One of the first things you should look for when seeking low-hanging fruit in your business is third party apps. Many businesses are paying for duplicate technology.
In other words, they're paying for third party apps such as Zoom or Calendly when they're already paying for Microsoft 365, which has the same functionality.
In today's bonus episode, Annie gives you several ideas on how you can eliminate duplicated technology.
In this second installment of the Low Hanging Fruit series, hostess Annie tells you one of the best places to look for opportunities in your business.
There are huge low hanging fruits in every email inbox in your company. Streamlining these emails will save your company hours upon hours during the year. Don't miss this one!
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