1,001 Business Problems Solved with Microsoft Teams

0032-I’m Working Too Many Hours as a Business Owner!

You likely started your business because you wanted to be your own boss, because you have a passion for providing a product or service, or even because you had a get rich idea.
Regardless what your reason for starting a business was, there's a good chance you're working too many hours. You most definitely don't enjoy doing much of the work you have to do on the computer.
Today's episode is about reducing the hours you work while improving your bottom line and job satisfaction.

0031-My Employees Don’t Understand OneDrive vs Teams vs SharePoint!

Most employees don't know the difference between OneDrive, Teams, and SharePoint. Since you pay a lot of money for files to be created, collaborated upon, and retrieved from the place they are stored, not to mention the risk to your business when files are haphazardly handled, it's vital that you and your employees understand when to use what.
This is an episode you'll want to pay close attention to, and one you'll want to play for all your employees who handle files.
Happy listening!

0030-Our Entire Computer Environment is a Jumbled Mess!

Do you cringe when you think about going into your organization's shared drive or SharePoint site and looking through folders and files to find a file? Is your file storage completely jumbled?
If so, you're going to love this episode. You'll learn how to change your thinking about cleaning up your hopelessly out-of-control mess of files. You'll learn how to start fresh with Teams and not take months cleaning up your folders.

0029-My Open-Door Meetings are Disrupting My Flow!

So you want to be an open-door manager and ensure your employees know you will listen, but hate how those meetings disrupt you when you're "in the zone?"
Today, hostess Annie Rynd tells you how to use the Microsoft 365 app Bookings to batch open door meetings and free up time to work on your most important managerial work.
Bookings comes free with your 365 license, so it's high time you began using it, especially if you're currently paying for scheduling apps such as Calendly.

0028-Our Teams Adoption Numbers Stink!

If you're like most leaders in the business world, you like the meeting functionality of Teams, and perhaps the chat feature, but other than that you aren't very happy with the results.
That's a shame, because Teams has transformed the inner workings of organizations where it has been properly deployed.
In this episode, we tell you how to successfully re-launch your Teams site and take advantage of the full transformative power of this incredible work platform.

0027-Our Permissions Are a Mess!

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.

0026-My Employees Spend Too Much Time Managing Email!

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.

0025-We Don’t Know Where to Begin with the Copilot AI Functionality in Teams!

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!

0024-Teams Notifications Are Distracting My Employees!

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!

0023-Our Employees Aren't Working Toward Our Vision!

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!