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

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.

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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

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:

- 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.

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