Chris and the panel talk through where the market is with Viva, how it links to Productivity and Culture, and the world of Teams Apps. He is joined by Georgina Rollins – Head of Partners & Alliances, Jack Fisher – Presales Consultant and Pete Vasey – Head of Technical Services.

We discuss why productivity conversations need to be driven from the business and also look into the curious concept of the Metaverse and Microsoft Mesh… Peter is joined by a team of guests this week including Om Lakhanpal - Presales Consultant, Chris Burns – Technical Architect and Steven Mensah from the Productivity team.

Pete is joined by Sophie and Rich to talk about Imposter Syndrome and the importance of taking note of the quiet ones in the meeting.

Chris and Paula join Pete to talk through the impact on the market of Operator Connect, the possible implications of Portugal’s decision to make it illegal for your Manager to contact you outside of working hours, and whether community led training is overtaking formal structured training content.

Sharon Harvey, Global Account Director and Chris Burns, Senior Technical Architect, talk about the role of the Digital Officer, whether frontline workers get to see useful tech and we share our initial thoughts on Microsoft Loop.

Product Marketing Manager, Caroline Edwards and Presales Consultant, Jack Fisher, join the conversation to talk about Wellbeing. We discuss the changes in the way people interact with technology, and the tools provided by Microsoft that can help keep your employees from burning out and keep them learning.

What is the collective noun for a group of ACM specialists? Who knows, but some of our ACM team (Michael DeDominick, Nick Boza & Steven Mensah) gather to talk all things ACM, where people get it right and where they are just fooling themselves that it is being done properly.

Peter is joined by Michael DeDominick, ACM Manager and Sean Murphy, Managing Consultant to talk through what the Hybrid Office might look and feel like, what you need to watch out for and how to mitigate any risks.

Jeremy Clarke (Sales Director and Strategic Accounts) and Bob Dalton (Managed Services Director) both return for a round of talks about the importance of having a strategy, making sure you know who you are talking to and to discuss whether we are ok to swear in the working environment these days.

Modality Head of Sales, Ricky Fancelli joins Peter and Lyndsay Ansell, Customer Success Manager for Products, who returns for her second ModPod outing. In this episode we discuss how Cloud has changed the Sales and Procurement process; What Microsoft’s move to a more Security, Compliance and Identity structure means, and whether or not Networking (the building relationships type) has a place in the modern world.