1,001 Business Problems Solved with Microsoft Teams

We've all seen it. You open a folder and then have to scroll past dozens of old versions of past documents just to find the recent file you need right now. There is some functionality in Teams that will eliminate that problem forever if you choose to use it. It's simple and once you begin using it, your team won't waste so much time scrolling through useless stashes of old document versions. This is a can't miss episode!

Too many business owners and managers become enamored with the potential of Teams, but then they rush into deployment without a sound strategy or plan. This episode tells how to effectively deploy Teams in a manner that guarantees success and holistic improvement in your business. Don't do Teams without listening to this one!

Employees spend 90 minutes every day looking for, and navigating to, information in your shared drives, SharePoint sites, apps, and their own hard drives. Teams gives you a way to aggregate and streamline the information that employees need to do their work. Not only will leveraging Teams to consolidate your information improve your bottom line, but it will radically improve your employees' job satisfaction because...nobody enjoys chasing information!

Bad things often happen when several employees share spreadsheets. Data gets mis-entered, accidentally deleted, and left in a general mess. Excel is a great tool when only one or two employees edit it, but when several people have their hands in a spreadsheet, chaos happens! In this episode, Annie Rynd tells you about awesome Teams functionality you can use to replace Excel tracking spreadsheets. Moreover, she also tells how to use dashboards to speed up your business decision making!

Dread that long time period where you have to assign a seasoned veteran employee with a newbie until they can do the job without babysitting? During that OJT period, you lose much of the productivity of your veteran employee because she's busy explaining so much...not to mention the obvious low productivity of a new employee who is uncertain of everything. Today's Teams solution will help reduce the time training takes and will make your training process more efficient and repeatable.

Do your field technicians or employees out on the shop floor still handwrite information on paper, just so your office employees have to re-transcribe it into a computer? Not only is such an archaic practice inefficient, but your office help could be doing other, higher priority work. Tune in as Annie Rynd starts you on your way to tossing the clipboards and ending the re-work!

Too many managers of small departments in large companies feel powerless to radically improve much in their departments because corporate controls so much. It's likely that you, as a department manager, have the power to single-handedly transform your small corner of the company by using Microsoft Teams to streamline many collaboration and information processes. It's not often that a chance like this comes around for middle managers. Listen to this podcast to learn how!

Even if you can't afford to hire a web developer to build a web form and then connect it to an internal spreadsheet or database, you can still streamline how you receive service requests from customers. Whether you own an HVAC company, swimming pool sales and service company, or any other business where customers call, email, text, or drop in to request service, this handy Microsoft 365 and Teams solution will streamline your operations.

Every small business has to track maintenance internally. Whether it's fixing a leaky faucet in the men's bathroom or a leaky roof over the lunchroom. Most small business owners don't want to invest in a third party maintenance management software because they're expensive and, even if you can afford one, it takes a lot of time to train employees to use the new interface. Fear not, in this episode, we tell you how to do track your maintenance work in Microsoft 365!

Most business owners and managers just accept the fact that they and their employees must spend 61% of every day managing email, searching for information, and collaborating otherwise. It just doesn't have to be that way. Learn how to cut that amount by nearly half with Microsoft Teams. It's time to quit spending so much time doing tasks that don't make money!