Going all in on Teams is like acting on a hot stock tip that actually pans out.

Most businesses - especially smaller businesses - do not know about the transformative powers of Microsoft Teams. They may use Teams for video meetings and a little bit of chat, but they don't strategically leverage it to transform their businesses.

This is the first of a two-part series on why Teams is worth going all-in on.

How many times have you scrambled to give someone access to a shared workgroup file? How many times has someone accidentally been given access to a sensitive file? How often have you resented trying to figure out how to set permissions?

Or are you just sick of the mental clutter of having to keep so many shared files straight in your head?

In this episode, Annie Rynd tells you how to set permissions one time and never have to worry about them again.

Are you an early adopter, or perhaps just someone who sees the great value of Teams to a workgroup but feel you don't have the authority to do anything about it?

Well fear not. In all likelihood, you can do something about it! This week, Annie tells you how to improve your workgroup's effectiveness with Teams, even if you are a lower-level manager in a large corporation or even if you're an individual contributor with no authority.

In today's Part Two of helping you master solving the problem of multiple topics running together in a chat thread. While it is very handy for all conversations with a person (or people) to be contained in a single container - the chat thread - finding old messages seems to be too much trouble.

Today, hostess Annie tells you how to very quickly find old messages and how to resurrect the discussion in a neat way. She also shares some valuable tips on working with external people via chat.

Today, on our 50th episode, hostess Annie tells you not only how to solve your issue of topics getting jumbled into a long Teams group chat, but also how to build an incredible knowledge base for your staff or workforce.

Whether you manage thousands, hundreds, dozens, or just two employees, this episode will help you improve the knowledge level of your organization.

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A simple, but effective goal for any business is to elevate all knowledge workers, or computing employees, to the proficiency level of your best computing employee. Additionally, there are unknown workgroup improvement opportunities lurking in the daily computing habits of individual employees.

In today's episode - which is the second installment in the series - hostess Annie tells you how to conduct a work habits audit to identify awesome opportunities to improve your business.

On today's episode, Annie reveals how any business can improve efficiency and individual employee effectiveness by conducting Work Habit Audits.

If you're a business owner or manager who knows intuitively that your employees are not as good on their computers and working seamlessly together as they should be, this is the episode for you.

Work habit audits can smoke out inefficiencies that can often be quickly improved!

Who should own Teams in your organization? Answering this question correctly is the first step in improving your business with Teams.

Whether you own your own business or manage a single department in a large organization, it is vital that someone actively own and improve Teams.

Here's a spoiler. It's not the IT department!

Should you use chat or channel posts? What's the difference? Doesn't it just confuse things to have two different ways to communicate in Teams?

Well, the answer is a resounding no! As a business owner or leader, channel posts will become one of your favorite means of improving your organization.

This episode is a must-listen if you're not currently leveraging channel posts, or not leveraging them in a way you find useful!

So many organizations are not impressed with Teams chat and that's unfortunate. At the same time they claim to be overwhelmed by their email burden, they can't see the forest for the trees when trying to make the switch to Teams chat.

When a workgroup effectively transitions fully to Teams chat and channel posts, nobody ever wants to return to the old ways.

In this episode, Annie makes inarguable case for going all-in on Teams and how to avoid the pitfalls most workgroups encounter.