1,001 Business Problems Solved with Microsoft Teams

Feb 03 2025 20 ep. 4 mins 53

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Microsoft Teams is for Business owners and managers, not the IT department! Until you take charge of Teams in your business, you’ll never solve your business workflow, collaboration, and information problems. Most business owners and managers see Microsoft Teams as yet another software to be implemented and managed by IT gurus, and that’s a shame. They don’t understand that Teams is a business-improving beast. This podcast focuses on solving specific business problems using out-of-the-box Microsoft Teams solutions.

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0047-Who Should Own Teams?

Feb 03 2025 6 mins

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!

0046-We Don't Know When to Use Chat vs Channel Posts!

Jan 30 2025 5 mins

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

0045-We're Just Not Seeing the Value of Teams Chat!

Jan 16 2025 5 mins

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 m

0044-How do I Find the Low-Hanging Fruit? Part 6

Jan 13 2025 4 mins

Finding repetitive work and automating it is perhaps the simplest way to explain low-hanging fruit. In this episode, Annie tells you one of the easiest things to improve and automate - meeting preparation. This is a short episode that is sure to be useful to nearly all organizations!

0043-How do I Find the Low-Hanging Fruit? Part 5

Jan 06 2025 3 mins

Today's low-hanging fruit episode is all about managing workgroup tasks. If you feel as though your workgroups don't have enough accountability for completing tasks, or if you don't think your workgroups' tasks are accessible enough (buried in separate files) this one is for you.

0042-The Four Steps for Extreme Teams Success

Jan 02 2025 3 mins

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 transf

0041-How do I Find the Low-Hanging Fruit? Part 4

Dec 30 2024 5 mins

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 a

0040-How do I Find the Low-Hanging Fruit? Part 3

Dec 24 2024 3 mins

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 h

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

Dec 23 2024 5 mins

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

Dec 17 2024 5 mins

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 i