1,001 Business Problems Solved with Microsoft Teams

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.

0039-How do I Find the Low-Hanging Fruit? Part 2

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!

0038-How do I Find the Low-Hanging Fruit? Part 1

Most businesses don't leverage Teams and Microsoft 365 strategically, or even tactically, because they see it as a tool for video meetings and instant messaging only. Boy, are they missing the boat!
The root cause is business leaders - executives, owners, and managers - don't lead the charge. Implementation is left to the IT folks while the leaders busy themselves elsewhere.
This is the first in a series of episodes that will point you directly to low hanging fruits in your business.

0037-Big Announcement–The OMG System!

Perhaps you want to implement some, or all of the suggestions offered weekly on this podcast but just can't find the time or resources to implement them. The solutions sound great, but you just can't make it happen.
The facilitated OMG System will help your small business or department achieve world-class operations and results within 60 days without a lot of time investment.
If you have a larger business, you'll still see results in a very short time. This one is worth a listen!

0036-It Still Takes Too Long to Navigate to Our Files!

Computers were supposed to make our lives easier, but when we click through shared drives, top level folders, secondary folders, and then scan file names, it doesn't seem like our lives are easier.
In today's episode, Annie tells you why navigating to information is so old-fashioned and how to use the ultra-powerful Teams search engine to make the computer do the work for you.

0035-We Need a Better Way to Communicate on the Job Site

Modern cell phones are modern-day marvels, but placing and receiving phone calls is a clunky way to communicate when employees are knee deep in their work.
Today, Annie tells about the Microsoft Walkie-Talkie app that is included in your Microsoft 365 licensing. It is light-years better than the walkie-talkies of old and since it's included in your licenses already, it's obviously much cheaper than your expensive radio system if you can verify that it will work in your environment.

0034-How to Reverse Microsoft’s Questionable New Default Setting!

We've learned that when Microsoft changes something in Teams, or any other app for that matter, we usually end up loving the change or at least understanding why they did it.
This latest change has us scratching our heads, and if you are strategically using Teams, you'll want to go right in and change the default setting back to the way it used to be.
We think Microsoft messed up on this one!

0033-Our External Vendors and Clients Aren’t Using Teams!

You've streamlined your information and collaboration processes with Teams, but your external contacts - vendors, clients, and others - still communicate via old-fashioned email and you know it's not efficient.
While you can't force external people to use Teams, there is still a cool thing you can do to use Teams when addressing their emails. This one is a solution that's been hiding right under your nose!