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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

Educate everyone. I repeat – everyone

Once the SLT is convinced, they will want to know how exactly to drive adoption. The answer is pretty simple: educate everyone about every app.

No, this is not an idealistic and impractical suggestion. Let me tell you why and how.

First, let's address the why. Everyone who uses Microsoft 365 needs to know what they have. We want to make everyone efficient, right?

But how do we do that? With a simple method – Teams live events. You can conduct an awareness/training session for up to 10,000 of your staff members in one event. (Check the latest documentation for the current attendee limit for live events.)

You can easily cover all your staff members with a few live events. Go to the Teams Calendar, open the New Meeting dropdown, and choose Live Event. Configure it. Make it an organization-level event by selecting Org-wide.

Figure 10.2 – Teams live event

During this event, cover the key...