1,001 Business Problems Solved with Microsoft Teams

SharePoint Lists are our favorite Microsoft 365 app to add to Microsoft Teams. As a business owner or leader, you'll love how Lists can streamline and standardize many things you currently keep in spreadsheets or email. From building your own CRM to tracking the status of complex projects or office processes, there is no doubt you'll find many efficient uses for Lists around your business.

Everybody uses spreadsheets in their business. It's a tried and true way to track items and organize data in a meaningful way. But, did you know there is a much better way to organize spreadsheet information when you have multiple people using and/or consuming the information? SharePoint lists have been around for more than twenty years, but most businesses don't have a clue what they do or how they can help. This episode will expose you to Microsoft's best kept secret!

After describing the problem most businesses face in Part 1 of this two-part series, Annie is back to tell you both the benefits of going all in on Microsoft Teams, as well as the four time-tested steps for succeeding with your own deployment.

Going all in on Teams is like acting on a hot stock tip that actually pans out. Most businesses - especially smaller businesses - do not know about the transformative powers of Microsoft Teams. They may use Teams for video meetings and a little bit of chat, but they don't strategically leverage it to transform their businesses. This is the first of a two-part series on why Teams is worth going all-in on.

How many times have you scrambled to give someone access to a shared workgroup file? How many times has someone accidentally been given access to a sensitive file? How often have you resented trying to figure out how to set permissions? Or are you just sick of the mental clutter of having to keep so many shared files straight in your head? In this episode, Annie Rynd tells you how to set permissions one time and never have to worry about them again.

Are you an early adopter, or perhaps just someone who sees the great value of Teams to a workgroup but feel you don't have the authority to do anything about it? Well fear not. In all likelihood, you can do something about it! This week, Annie tells you how to improve your workgroup's effectiveness with Teams, even if you are a lower-level manager in a large corporation or even if you're an individual contributor with no authority.

In today's Part Two of helping you master solving the problem of multiple topics running together in a chat thread. While it is very handy for all conversations with a person (or people) to be contained in a single container - the chat thread - finding old messages seems to be too much trouble. Today, hostess Annie tells you how to very quickly find old messages and how to resurrect the discussion in a neat way. She also shares some valuable tips on working with external people via chat.

Today, on our 50th episode, hostess Annie tells you not only how to solve your issue of topics getting jumbled into a long Teams group chat, but also how to build an incredible knowledge base for your staff or workforce. Whether you manage thousands, hundreds, dozens, or just two employees, this episode will help you improve the knowledge level of your organization. www.countyquest.com

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.

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!