1,001 Business Problems Solved with Microsoft Teams

0058 – Isn’t It Harder to Use Both Email and Teams?

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.
At County Quest Consulting, we always communicate with our clients via Teams rather than email, and it saves everyone involved a lot of clutter and work.

0057 – Solving Many Problems Using Microsoft Lists

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.

0056 – 8 Reasons to Use Microsoft Lists ASAP

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 expose you to Microsoft's best kept secret!

0055 – Why You Should Go All in On Teams - Part 2

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.

0054 – Why You Should Go All in On Teams - Part 1

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.

0053-Permissions Are a Pain!

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 about them again.

0052-I See the Value of Teams but I Have No Authority!

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.

0051-Our Group Chat Topics All Run Together! Part 2

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 some valuable tips on working with external people via chat.

0050-Our Group Chat Topics All Run Together! Part 1

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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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.