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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

Engaging with all employees

As the organization grows, communicating with all employees becomes difficult. There are two ways of enhancing employee engagement:

  • Intranet (internal website for staff) for mass communication using SharePoint
  • Open collaboration and engagement using Yammer

Centralized sharing with SharePoint

SharePoint is designed for sharing. Microsoft Lists, which we learned about in Chapter 5, Managing Files Efficiently, is also a SharePoint feature.

SharePoint enables us to create a website. This site can contain information, documents, shared calendars, lists, and more. When the organization needs to share read-only information with staff, we create a SharePoint communication site.

Senior leaders and department heads can add information and the rest of the staff can refer to it. Company rules and regulations, standard operating procedures, policies, compliance documents, document templates, brand guidelines, corporate news, the corporate...