1,001 Business Problems Solved with Microsoft Teams

0049-Improve With Work Habit Audits-Part 2

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 awesome opportunities to improve your business.

0048-Improve With Work Habit Audits-Part 1

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!

0047-Who Should Own Teams?

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!

0046-We Don't Know When to Use Chat vs Channel Posts!

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!

0045-We're Just Not Seeing the Value of Teams Chat!

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 how to avoid the pitfalls most workgroups encounter.

0044-How do I Find the Low-Hanging Fruit? Part 6

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!

0043-How do I Find the Low-Hanging Fruit? Part 5

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.
 

0042-The Four Steps for Extreme Teams Success

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...

0041-How do I Find the Low-Hanging Fruit? Part 4

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 business!

0040-How do I Find the Low-Hanging Fruit? Part 3

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.