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Efficiency Best Practices for Microsoft 365

By : Dr. Nitin Paranjape
Book Image

Efficiency Best Practices for Microsoft 365

By: Dr. Nitin Paranjape

Overview of this book

Efficiency Best Practices for Microsoft 365 covers the entire range of over 25 desktop and mobile applications on the Microsoft 365 platform. This book will provide simple, immediately usable, and authoritative guidance to help you save at least 20 minutes every day, advance in your career, and achieve business growth. You'll start by covering components and tasks such as creating and storing files and then move on to data management and data analysis. As you progress through the chapters, you'll learn how to manage, monitor, and execute your tasks efficiently, focusing on creating a master task list, linking notes to meetings, and more. The book also guides you through handling projects involving many people and external contractors/agencies; you'll explore effective email communication, meeting management, and open collaboration across the organization. You'll also learn how to automate different repetitive tasks quickly and easily, even if you’re not a programmer, transforming the way you import, clean, and analyze data. By the end of this Microsoft 365 book, you'll have gained the skills you need to improve efficiency with the help of expert tips and techniques for using M365 apps.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
1
Section 1: Efficient Content Creation
7
Section 2: Efficient Collaboration
10
Section 3: Integration

Managing simple teamwork

Simple teamwork involves individual tasks that require multiple people to contribute. The objective is to finish the task. This is a short-term activity. One person is responsible for the job and others contribute toward completing it in various ways.

As I said earlier, it is one piece of work involving multiple people. Here are some examples of simple teamwork for different roles in any organization. You can think of examples relevant to you.

To finish any of these tasks, you need the domain knowledge of that subject. But you also need to coordinate with other people to get input, data, opinions, reviews, and so on.

Activity breakdown

We will take one example and see exactly how we go about this "team" work. Let's say I want to design an advertising campaign for a new product. Here are the actual activities I will need to perform:

Sound familiar? This is just one activity. Imagine...