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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

Growth mindset

All of us want to grow – as a person and as an organization. How do we do that? We have lots of things to do – we call that our Job Description (JD). If you exceed your JD, the chances of growth are much higher. Nothing new here. The problem is that even if you want to deliver more, do you have enough time? Time is the universal constraint.

Even if you are the richest person on earth, you cannot purchase time. Surprisingly, each one of us can do something better – you can actually create time.

By now, you must be realizing that many of the activities you perform are not efficient. When you use an efficient method, time is saved. That is where you create time for your own growth. Invest it in value-adding activities and you will drive faster growth. This is what I mean by a "growth mindset."

While managing our email and calendar, we do not use the available time to our advantage, leading to inefficiency.