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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

Chapter 7: Efficient Teamwork and Meetings

We saw how to manage our tasks and delegation in Chapter 6, Time and Task Management. Now it is time to learn about teamwork. Delegation is not teamwork. With delegation, you ask someone else to do the work. You are just responsible for getting it done.

Figure 7.1 – Types of work

However, with teamwork, you are actively working along with others to complete some task or activity. What are the principles of efficient teamwork?

  • Get the work done quickly.
  • Everyone should be in sync about work progress.
  • Finding and tracking things should be easy.
  • Activities across different teams should not get mixed up.

Teamwork is of two types – simple teamwork and teamwork with multiple related tasks or a project. We will dig deeper into them and learn best practices for efficient teamwork.

Figure 7.2 – Types of teamwork

Now, where do meetings fit in? Well,...