Episodes
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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!
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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!
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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!
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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...)
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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.
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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!
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Regardless what management system you use - or even if you don't really have a system, 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, but why not use Teams and Microsoft 365 since you already have it? Additionally, you will become accustomed to using Teams to streamline more than just strategic management across your business.
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This is the second installment of our Managing More Strategically series. In this episode, Annie Rynd explains how the "Entrepreneurial Operating System" or EOS, from the book "Traction" by Gino Wickman can help you develop your business vision and methodically keep you on track to greater success and growth in your business.
Buy Traction here.
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Are you so busy working in your business that you don't have time to work on it? Do you feel as though you're so busy fighting fires and managing the day-to-day activities that your business strategy is lacking?
Today we kick off a series that is sure to help you begin getting a grip on your business, from laying out a fresh strategy, managing that strategy in a sustainable way, and streamlining your operations.
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Are you a small town mayor, parks superintendent, or clerk who spends much too much time and effort tracking shelter house reservations?
This episode tells you how to use Teams - and more specifically, SharePoint Lists - to make your reservation tracking almost effortless without spending big bucks on a reservations system.
Not only will you learn how to use Lists for shelterhouse rentals, but you'll discover many more effective applications for this awesome tool!
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Perhaps you have already begun using Teams and you're unimpressed. Perhaps there is only sporadic usage and you still feel as though your information and communication is spread across so many places that you instantly cringe when booting up your computer every morning.
It doesn't have to be that way. In this episode, Annie Rynd tells you the three steps for success and the one step for ensuring world-class collaboration and information processes.
