Episodes
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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.
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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!
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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!
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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!
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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.
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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...
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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!
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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!
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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.
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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!
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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.
