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
7 days ago
0027-Our Permissions Are a Mess!
7 days ago
7 days ago
Let's face it. Very few business owners and managers are confident in the permissions of their most sensitive files, let alone the thousands of other files that have accumulated over many years.
Thanks to Microsoft Teams, there is finally a way to get control of permissions, clean up your mess, and make sure new employees can't access salary information or other confidential business management information.
In this episode, Annie tells you how to clean up the mess and keep it clean.
Friday Oct 11, 2024
0026-My Employees Spend Too Much Time Managing Email!
Friday Oct 11, 2024
Friday Oct 11, 2024
No matter if you are a manager in a mega-corporation or a solo freelancer, if the time spent in email bothers you, this is the episode for you. Annie tells you how you can replace email with Teams messaging and save hours per week while being much more organized.
You'll want to share this episode with your employees as a part of your ongoing effort to streamline your organization's collaborative processes.
Thursday Oct 10, 2024
0025-We Don’t Know Where to Begin with the Copilot AI Functionality in Teams!
Thursday Oct 10, 2024
Thursday Oct 10, 2024
AI has burst upon the scene after years of science fiction telling us it's coming. What's that mean for you? Just how in the world can you use it to improve your business? Can you?
Annie Rynd tells you how to begin using Microsoft's AI offering, Copilot, to immediately save time on common business tasks. She also tells you how to make sure your information is protected, both externally and internally.
Don't miss this one!
Tuesday Oct 08, 2024
0024-Teams Notifications Are Distracting My Employees!
Tuesday Oct 08, 2024
Tuesday Oct 08, 2024
Are you or your employees new to Teams? Do you like Teams, but you're a bit disillusioned with how many distracting notifications you receive? Does the instant messaging vibe of Teams interrupt your workflow too much?
Today, Annie Rynd gives some timely tips for reducing interruptions caused by Teams notifications. The solutions are simple, but the benefits are great.
Be sure to share these tips with your employees to instantly improve productivity!
Tuesday Sep 17, 2024
0023-Our Employees Aren't Working Toward Our Vision!
Tuesday Sep 17, 2024
Tuesday Sep 17, 2024
Do you roll your vision, mission, and goals out once a year, only to wonder why employees aren't working toward them? Are your employees so consumed by daily tasks that you wonder why you even bother to have a vision? Are you also losing sight of the plans you made last December?
In this episode, host Annie Rynd tells you how to leverage Teams and Microsoft 365 to ensure your strategies are front and center every day for everyone in the organization. This is a good one!
Thursday Sep 12, 2024
0022-We Don't Know What Teams to Create!
Thursday Sep 12, 2024
Thursday Sep 12, 2024
This episode tackles an extremely important topic that is pivotal to the success of organizations venturing into the Microsoft Teams and 365 world. It's one of the first things that must be decided, and it is something that is time-consuming to undo if you get it wrong.
In just five minutes, Annie Rynd tells you the answer to the common question, "What Teams sites do we need?"
You won't get it wrong if you listen to this episode!
Tuesday Sep 03, 2024
0021 – We Need a Better Way to Manage Project Documentation!
Tuesday Sep 03, 2024
Tuesday Sep 03, 2024
If you or your employees are tired of minimizing and maximizing windows, clicking through nested folders, and looking for project documentation, this is a must-listen episode.
Not only does such mouse clicking and searching cause too many clicks and wasted minutes, but it is a main cause of employees experiencing a mid-day energy crash. Their eyes and brains are tired!
Eliminate nested project folders once and for all! (Note: this solution may require your tech guru's assistance...)
Monday Aug 26, 2024
0020-We Don’t Have a Grip on the Status of Our Projects!
Monday Aug 26, 2024
Monday Aug 26, 2024
Whether you manage an engineering or architecture firm, construction company, or any business working on multiple projects at a time, you may not feel like you have your arms around the status and needs of those projects.
You could dig through dozens of related emails and spreadsheets, or even call project managers, but wouldn't it be much nicer to simply scan a project dashboard that tells you everything you need at a glance?
This episode tells you how to make that happen with Teams.
Monday Aug 19, 2024
0019-I Need to Manage More Strategically! Part Four
Monday Aug 19, 2024
Monday Aug 19, 2024
The first three episodes in this series covered managing more strategically at the leadership level. This final episode tells how to use Teams to then manage your workforce's collaboration and information processes more strategically.
Learn why you should plan strategically prior to releasing Teams to your employees. If you've already deployed Teams, simply listen and then plan a grand reopening!
Tuesday Aug 13, 2024
0018-I Need to Manage More Strategically! Part Three
Tuesday Aug 13, 2024
Tuesday Aug 13, 2024
Whether you use the Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS) in your business or not, you need a way to track your long term goals, short term goals, issues, tasks, and more.
You can certainly use any of the specialty software systems out there, like Ninety.io, but why not use Teams instead since you already have it? Additionally, you will become accustomed to using Teams to streamline more than just EOS across your business.
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—just 3 minutes per episode! Whether you just licensed your employees or have had Teams for a while, discover how to maximize its potential. Don’t let underutilization cost your business and certainly don’t keep tolerating the problems listed here—solve them with Teams! 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.