Leadership in a Zoom Economy with Microsoft Teams: Applying Leadership to a Remote Workforce

ISBN-13: 9781484279922 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 144 str.

Peter Ward

Opis

Intermediate user level

Spis treści

Introduction

Introduction to the author Peter Ward and SoHo Dragon (SoHo). This chapter also lists SoHo’s technology stack past and past and how the company has ended up running so much of the company on Office 365 and the Teams component.

The structure of the book explained, with a discipline focus, lessons, challenges of that book applied to SoHo Dragon using Microsoft Teams.

Chapter 1. Governance – The Art of Tidying Up M365

Chapter Goals

There is something about tidying up not just at home, but your desktop as well. This chapter isn't just a guide to decluttering; it’s about having a clutter free working environment.   The goal of this chapter is to apply this decluttering principle to a user’s UX of Outlook and Teams sites has a decisive personal significance.

Subtopics

In this chapter you will learn about how declutter your desktop and M365 environment, so an employee can move closer to achieving their dreams of simplifying their O365 workplace.  Key areas include:

·         Email file management

·         Identifying important day to day files and how to make them easily accessible for day to day use

·         Where and have to save Team chats and reference emails

·         Information achieving and deletion

·         MS Team structure architecture  for simplicity

·         Workflow and information architecture

 Chapter 2. Creating A Real Growth Culture

Chapter Goals

This chapter throws out the traditional notions of what it takes to run a business with expensive technology and offers a collection of unorthodox advice, ranging from productivity to communication and product development. 

Subtopics

In this chapter you will learn the first hand leadership advice and understand how this was applied to SoHo Dragon growth with the use of the MS Teams.  Key areas include:

·         How Teams meetings should be done and projects kicked off

·         What’s wrong with traditional meetings

·         Stopping Zoom fatigue

·         Do more with less technology

·         How to make  decision making without meetings

·         Build uninterrupted work time into every day

·         Don’t hire until your done with a job

·         How to constantly analyze the value of Your efforts with Power BI

 Chapter 3.  Using M365 to be the Effective Executive

Chapter Goals

This chapter  offers a step-by-step guide to becoming a more productive and effective executive. These procedures and principles are applied to functionality of M365 and explained so you can develop your own leadership capacities as a leader and support your employees' strengths to improve results across your organization with MS Teams. The goal of this chapter is to apply this step by step guide to your leadership tasks with MS Teams being an aid.

Subtopics

The five practices that have been applied to the SoHo Dragon culture are essential to business effectiveness and are discussed at length, with  a focus on how MS Teams is a tool for these practices.   These are:

·         Management of time better

·         Choosing what to contribute to projects and tasks in a the practical remote organization

·         Knowing where and how to mobilize strength for best effect with Delve and Viva

·         Setting up the right priorities

·         And knitting all of them together with effective decision making

 Chapter 4.  Entrepreneurship

 Chapter Goals

This chapter explains how a valuable tool called the Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS) works, how you can use it to build your business with Teams.  This chapter really is a guide to  running a robust, thriving business.      

Subtopics

This EOS is a blueprint for first-time entrepreneurs and those who’ve hit a ceiling in their business where hard work and determination are no longer enough for it to survive and grow.  The six principles of the EOS are:

·         Vision

·         People

·         Data

·         Issues

·         Processes

·         Traction

The subtopics stated above show how SoHo Dragon has applied these principles using Teams and the M365 technology stack.

Chapter 5. The Art of War

Chapter Goals

This chapter is more management, rather than MS technology, but there is elements of M365 that are applied to this classic text.

Chapter Subtopics

The subtopics of this chapter are

·         Understanding employee training with Viva

·         How to get advantage with your MS Technology

·         Preparing for the projects with Planner

·         Identifying correct skill sets with MS Teams, and SharePoint      

Chapter 6. Being Productively with your productivity

 Chapter Goals

This chapter is all about overcoming procrastination and learning to manage your time.  The must have list of great ways to stop procrastinating and get more done in less time is applied to Teams functions such as tasks list, OneNote, and Outlook integration.

Chapter Subtopics

The subtopics of this chapter are applying Planner, Outlook  and Tasks within MS Teams and gets tasks complete and reflect on old habits.

Chapter 7. Decisive communication for leadership

Chapter Goals

This chapter should be used as a playbook for successful team management, as it teaches leaders how they can change their language and mindsets to improve decision-making, empower workers, and achieve better results.  This chapter explains how these playbooks are applied to the note taking and whiteboarding features of Microsoft Teams.

Chapter Subtopics

·         Identify practices and procedures embedded in the organization

·         Get people to act differently when they are working remote

·         Have supervisors do brief check-ins to ensure crew members are on the right track so time isn’t wasted.  OneNote is the perfect tool for this check-in

·         Starting Teams meetings with “I intend to…” instead of asking for permission to do something.

·         As supervisors, resist the impulse to jump in with solutions when problems occur. Instead, let crew members decide what to do.

·         Allowing your team to speak in Teams meetings

Chapter 8. Sales and Marketing – Creating Insight

Chapter Goal

For leadership to have insight you have the ability to shed light on new techniques for salespeople to win even more sales by setting up scenarios that enlighten the buyer and build trust. The goal of this chapter is to use use "insight scenarios" and Teams for sales teams, so they  can not only solidify sales relationships but also significantly increase sales volumes.

 

Chapter Subtopics

The subtopics show hidden and underused tools of Powerpoint, Sway, PowerBI  and Word win clients and increase sales volume.

Chapter 9. Speaking up with Team work

Chapter Goal

This chapter is a combination of entertaining anecdotes, solid data and practical advice examines the why team members just don’t speak up and seize opportunities and aspire  to leadership positions.  This chapter’s goal is to provide Office features as tools  for anyone who struggles with the challenges and expectations of combining a career with family.

Subtopics

The term means to grab opportunities without hesitation.  The subtopics of the book are how to conduct one on one meeting with colleagues and keep track with OneNote.

This includes:

·         The art of speaking on MS Teams meetings

·         The myth of doing It all and how to  allocate responsibility with your remote team

·         How to apply mentorship structure with your team and with MS Teams channels, planner and other tools.

Chapter 10. Create a more fulfilling day

Chapter Goal

This chapter is a personal and professional account of how you can live a more fulfilling life by practicing discipline and developing a better understanding of what you are actually doing each day.  The pathways outlined in offer some enlightenment for a more rewarding day.   Other areas include how this can be applied to running a company and dealing with the day-to-day activity of employees and customers to become a more balanced leader.

Subtopics

·         Stops just sitting in front of a computer and staring at the screen

·         How to be more valued with your work and collaboration with remote team members

·         Turning communication obstacles into opportunities

·         Creating stronger bonds with employees via the features of Teams.

Chapter 11. Conclusion

The wrap up  chapter that summaries the books chapters, the objectives of the book, and next steps for the reader.

O autorze

Peter Ward is a Solution Architect on Microsoft Cloud software. He is the founder and CTO/CEO of SoHo Dragon, a New York-based Microsoft Gold partner focused on helping CXOs and technical teams obtain as much value as possible from Microsoft Cloud. He prefers taking the technical lead on Microsoft Azure / M365 projects from an architect and deployment standpoint. He is an M365 trainer and motivator.

Peter is a Microsoft MVP, co-author of four Microsoft SharePoint books, and frequent contributor to GitHub. He is keen on UX simplicity, and stays on the leading edge of technology. He thinks on his feet in meetings and complex situations, and gets to the heart of an issue while not ruffling too many feathers. He loves yoga, vegetarian food, and reading books by Malcolm Gladwell.

 

Blurb

Manage and lead a team remotely by intertwining leadership principles with the many robust tools of Microsoft Teams. This book shows you how to utilize Microsoft Teams in an effective way to achieve your global team goals.

Leading a team is a challenge, but leading a team in the zoom economy can make you stressed out and overworked. Peter Ward gives the reader a communication and organization centered approach for the dynamic, hardworking, successful employee who wants to step into a leadership role and vastly improve their organization with the aid of Microsoft Teams. Ward shares his own "rules" for successful leadership of teams and small companies, to scale at a steady pace, creating a culture of accountability and responsibility, with a remote workforce, not using venture capital, and applying minimal bureaucracy. Ward says teamwork, right hires, diversity, and work balance are equally important as profitability. Leadership in a Zoom Economy with Microsoft Teams is a portrait of a productive, sane, balanced life that is organized and filled with rich results.

After reading this book, you will be able to extend your Microsoft Team capabilities to day-to-day leadership principles.

What You Will Learn

• Use MS Teams to build trust in your remote or virtual workplace with teams
• Work with Planner, Outlook, and Tasks within MS Teams
• Coach, mentor, and develop your team when you are not in the exact location
• Lead a remote workforce effectively
• Apply an entrepreneur mentality to remote teams
• Create a culture that is innovative and creative when you are a dispersed organization