The Copilot Studio Podcast

What is Microsoft missing?, well joining me on today's episode is Ragnar Heil.

For the past since 22 years, Ragnar has specialized in Office Productivity, Search, Document & Content Management Software.

He has been involved in FAST Search / SharePoint / Office 365 / Yammer Projects in different roles (Developer, Infrastructure Architect, Project Manager, Tech Support, Consultant, Trainer, Team Lead, QA Manager, Regional Director, Partner Sales Lead, Alliance and Channel Manager) Since Nov 2017 he has also been supporting Enterprises to move, manage and protect content within enterprise collaboration platforms in the cloud and on-premises and is the founding member of "Working out loud" community in Germany.

It's fair to say that he has some knowledge to share. And this episode was epic.

Some of the key highlights included:

• Ragnar's elivator pitch for Microsoft Teams
• Experiences learnt from real hybrid work (aka working whiel travelling around Germany:))
• Common pitfalls and success stories from tenant to tenant migrations
• Learning in the flow of work
• What is Microsoft missing ?

Connect with Ragnar:

https://linktr.ee/ragnarh

Joining me on this episode is none other than Cameron Dwyer. Now Cam is better known in the Office Development circles where he is a Microsoft MVP in 2017.

Cameron is alos Chief Technology Officer at OnePlace Solution overseeing an award winning Microsoft 365 product portfolio.

He has more than 20 years’ experience as a developer solving complex challenges and running SaaS offerings at global scale. Combining strong business understanding and acumen with deep product knowledge and thought leadership around Microsoft 365.

Now what is great about this episode is that there is no developer speak at all. Cameron  recently had the desire/need to setup regular Brown Bag style sessions as a vehicle to share knowledge within his development team. It was driven by two signals that he was hearing over and over again during their team sprints:

• I need knowledge
• I need to impart knowledge

This lead to Cameron creating a solution to solve the problem with Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Lists and SharePoint with out a line of code being written.

It was a great example of what can be acheived with out of the box functionality and also by starting with the problem first.

You can follow Cameron via Twitter and his blog where he shares a great about of experience through his content:

• Blog: https://camerondwyer.com
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/CameronDwyer

Joining me on this episode is Paul Keijzers. Paul is the co-owner of KbWorks which is a company based near Amsterdam Netherlands and also a Microsoft MVP.

His main focus is Microsoft Teams and SharePoint and loves to collaborate on these topics and make weekly videos for endusers.

In this episode we had a great discussion about SharePoint, Microsoft Teams, Teams only devices, Viva.

Oh and a little / big announcement from Paul for 2022.

Here are some of the highlights:

• Microsoft Teams only devices (think Chromebook)
• Where do you start your day? Outlook, Teams or the Intranet ?
• Old school user adoption examples for the Intranet
• Microsoft Teams - What are companies struggling with ?
• Microsoft Teams archiving - make sure you have a plan
• Pauls' take on Microosft Viva and Microsoft Loop
• What is the key selling point of Microsoft Viva ?

Connect with Paul:

• KB Works: https://kbworks.nl
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulkeijzers
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/kbworks

In this episode, I chat with Microsoft MVP Matt Wade. An engineer-turned-IT nerd and Microsoft MVP.

His career began in the nuclear power design field and ended up in SharePoint adoption, pretty much by mistake. He’s best known for his SharePoint and Microsoft 365 infographics—especially the Periodic Table of Office 365—and advocating Microsoft Teams as the foundation of our modern workplace. He lives in Upstate New York.

There is so much value in this episode as we dicuss a wide range of topics, a few of the highlights were:

• Microsoft Teams best practises and etiquet
• Running better meetings in Microsoft Teams (sometimes this is not a technology thing)
• Microsoft Loop and how this could be potentially the next big thing
• Who benefits from Microsoft Loop
• Just because you can do something in Microsoft Teams should you really?
• Pain points that people have with collaboration today
• The biggest challenges organistions face when implementing Microsoft Teams
• Microsoft Viva...just re branded to capture a different audience.

I highly recommend connecting with Matt as he continues to produce some really good and engaging content. You can find links to all his socials here https://linktr.ee/thatmattwade

Joining me on this episode is Norm Young. Norm has spent 20 plus years as a data professional who has recently made the shift to the collaboration space using Microsoft 365 and the Power Platform.

Norm is also a Microsoft MVP for Office Apps and Services. Blogger, speaker, community contributor, and Microsoft 365 evangelist.

Some highlights that will bring you some value from this episode are:

• We discuss the advatanges and value of moving from excel to Microsoft Lists
• The introduction of offline availability of Microsoft Lists via Project Nucleus
• Customization options with Microsoft Lists that help drive business value and adoption
• Real world use cases

Connect with Norm:

Blog: https://normyoung.ca LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/norm-young Twitter: https://twitter.com/stormin_30

If you are interested in learning more about customizing Microsoft Lists: 

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-sharepoint-blog/customizing-lists-best-practices-guest-blog-and-video/ba-p/2858509

In this episode I am joined by Darrell Webster and we talk all about Microsoft Loop. This big new app announcement from Microsoft. Specifically we talk about 

• What is Microisoft Loop - Our crack at an elevator pitch
• The concept of the portability of the components
• Microsoft Loop Features
  • what is available today
  • what’s coming
• What gaps does Microsoft Loop fill
• Who we think will get the most out of it.
• Is this an MS Teams vs Loop situation?
• Or is it an AND situation ?

A little bit about Darrell: Darrell is a productivity and collaboration specialist focused on user adoption and change management. He relishes the opportunity to help individuals, teams and organisations to unlock the value in Microsoft 365. He is active in the Microsoft Technical Community and firmly believes that 'the community is the expert.'

Darrell helps to co-ordinate an online publication, Live show and podcast syndicate called 'REgarding 365' where thought leaders share their stories, opinions and guidance regarding Microsoft 365. His community efforts have been recognised with the Microsoft MVP award since 2013.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/darrellwebster Website: https://modernworkplacechange.com Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/modernworkplacechange

Komal Thakkar is an Executive Management Consultant and Managing Director of Productivity First. Komal is a Certified GTD Coach and former Chair of the APSIG committee for PSA (The Pharmaceutical Society of Australia).

Getting things done with Konal Thakker - Episode 3 of 3

Reflect and Engage- Keeping things all fresh and functional The idea with this whole method of workflow management is not to let your brain become lax, but rather to enable it to be free to experience more elegant, productive, and creative activity.

In episode 1 we took a look at GTD at a high level, then dove into the first step of Capturing.

The second episode we took a look at Clarifying and Organising everything that we captured and now we come to the final 2 stages of GTD and getting us to "stress free productivity" the Reflect and Engage steps.

Some topics that we convered here were:

• What do we look at and when ?
• What is the order, is there a best practise ?
• Updating your system - can you tell use how important this is and why ?
• The weekly review - what is it all about and what activities are we doing ?
• What is the right time and place for a weekly review ?
• We then also outline these three priority frameworks for deciding actions
• What is the Four-Criteria Model for choosing actions in the moment?
• The threefold model for evaluating daily work
• The six level model for reviewing your own work.

Connect with Komal:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/getting-things-done-coach

GTD-Q: https://www.productivityfirst.com.au/take-the-gtd-test/

Website: https://www.productivityfirst.com.au

He runs the Corey Boutwell podcast and for the past two years he has been achieving incredible results. Essentially he helps entrepreneurs and business owners who feel destined for success but are currently unfulfilled and doubting themselves, take responsibility for their emotions and raise their standard for not only themselves but their business, unlocking the best version of themselves.

In this episode we talk about the non technology side of improving your productivity. Sleep, diet and exercise. Corey has worked with many high performing busiess peope and entrepreneurs.

We had a great discussion and covered many topics

• Common traits in successful business people
• How focusing on sleep, diet and excercise can drasically help your productivity
• Reducing stress through a daily dose of stillness
• How sleep, diet and exercise go together to become a power trio
• Corey shares some great tips on how to get started with improving your poductivity through sleep, diet and exercise.
• When is the best time to eat for you ?
• How to wake up feeling refreshed

Really hope you enjoy this episode, it was a great discussion and Corey shared some great information and tips to give you some value.

Lisa Crosbie has a contagious enthusiasm for low code technology and making it possible for anyone to get started with Power Platform and Dynamics 365.

She has taken a career journey from being a Dynamics 365 customer and business user doing unspeakable things with Excel, to an evangelist for Microsoft Business Applications, educating customers and helping solve problems for people like she used to be. She loves getting people excited about this awesome technology, opening new possibilities, and learning and sharing with the global community every day.

Lisa is a Microsoft Business Applications MVP, blogger, trainer, speaker, YouTuber and host of The UP Podcast with her good friend Megan V. Walker. 

In this episode we cover a lot of ground with Lisa and cover the following topics that will brign you some value:

• Personal Productivity - Many think that Power Automate is a developer tool and need IT to create workflows But this is not the case…Information Workers have opportunities to use pre built templates and really save some time with common tasks.
• PowerApps, Power Automate, Dynamics all powerful in their own right - What is Lisa's personal fav and when you combine them all, what are the benefits ?
• Power Apps - Canvas or Model Driven apps what is the difference and what to use when ?
• Dataverse and Microsoft Teams - a lot is talked about Dataverse, Lisa exaplains what this is and how it relates to Microsoft Teams
• Microsoft Teams Webinars + Dynamics 365 use cases here around follloowing up after the event
• Microsoft Ignite is fast approaching - find out what Lisa is looking forward to.
• Lisa talks about what is exciting her in the PowerPlatform Space right now.

Connect with Lisa:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/LisaMCrosbie

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisa-crosbie/

Youtube:  https://www.youtube.com/c/LisaCrosbie

List Rasmussne is a Microsoft 365 consultant with a focus on SharePoint, Teams and Power Platform.

Lise is also the host of WITGirls Podcast where she shares news & information about M365. 

Lise has worked with SharePoint since 2003 in many different roles. Most of the focus has been on building intranets, setup document management systems, build forms and workflows.

Over the past few years Lise has worked mostly with Microsoft 365 apps like SharePoint Online, Teams, Power Apps and more with a clear focus on helping customers find a solution using the right apps, functions and features of Microsoft 365. 

So it was a really great discussion about some real world pain points and issues that businesses are facing and how to acheive some great outcomes to solve those problems with the Microsoft 365 toolkit.

To connect with Lise here is where she can be found:

Witgirsl Podcast: https://linktr.ee/Witgirls

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/liserasmussen

Blog: http://sharepointbabe.com

Twitter: https://twitter.com/sharepointbabe