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Cheat Code: How To Use the Employee Ideas App in Microsoft Teams

Receiving valuable and consistent feedback from your team is an integral part of running your business. Sometimes it can be difficult to keep up with all of the incoming ideas. Luckily, there is a Microsoft Power App within Teams that allows you to do just that.

The Employee Ideas App allows you to effectively receive and manage any ideas that your team has. It also allows other team members to vote on the ideas, showing you a clear picture of what is considered to be a priority amongst your employees.

Check out this quick Cheat Code how-to video below to learn more! You can also continue scrolling to find a few of our previous Cheat Codes.

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How to Use Microsoft Planner for Managing Tasks

Managing tasks with due dates can get chaotic, especially in a team atmosphere. Juggling multiple projects with varying deadlines and dependencies can overwhelm even the most organized employees.

With multiple files, documents and notes being created by each member, a task management software is an essential tool in managing these processes.

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Stay On Track with Microsoft 365 Tools

Efficiently managing all of your tasks and projects can be extremely time-consuming. With the help of a few Microsoft 365 tools, you can simplify this process and stay on track to get more work done.

Check out this how-to video for a quick look at each of these tools. You can also follow along below with a more in-depth look at each tool.

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Marissa Explains IT All: Backup for Microsoft 365

Even if you’re using Microsoft 365, it’s still necessary to have a reliable backup. Check out the quick clip below to hear Marissa explain why in under 60 seconds!

You can also follow along with the script down below.

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Stay Productive in Office Apps with Microsoft Search

We’re back with another quick how-to video! It’s part of our webinar series that is designed to help you ‘level up’ your business game using tools you already use.

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Automating Approvals in Microsoft Teams

It’s already May, which means we’re on month two of our new webinar series where we show you easy ways to ‘Level Up’ your business game using tools you probably already have.

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Simplify employee onboarding with Microsoft 365 (and SharePoint)

It’s April…which means it’s time to ‘Level Up’ with WorkSmart!

While the first live webinar of the series is not until next week, today we have a quick “cheat code” for you. It’s a short video (less than 15 minutes) designed to help simplify a process that can be time-consuming to get right.

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Security News: Microsoft Exchange

WorkSmart is aware of the vulnerabilities being used to attack on-premise versions of Microsoft Exchange Server. We have confirmed that our clients using Exchange have the updated security patches already installed, and thus are protected.

WorkSmart does not use the on-premise version of Microsoft Exchange. Microsoft confirmed that Exchange Online, the hosted email service provided by Microsoft 365, is not affected.

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Connected, meaningful, and productive communications with Microsoft 365 Tools
ON-DEMAND WEBINAR

Employees and customers want and expect your organization to have the right technology to meet their needs.

That means more effective and efficient communication channels.

In this hour-long workshop, you’ll learn how you can use Microsoft 365 to improve the employee and customer experience by fostering real interaction and limiting distractions.

What you’ll learn:

  • How small business are using Microsoft 365 to create virtual workspaces for their teams and clients
  • Tips for using Microsoft 365 apps—like SharePoint, Sway, Yammer, and Stream—to make communication more effective
  • Considerations for building a communications strategy
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A Skill-building Class: Making Microsoft Team Meetings More Engaging
ON-DEMAND WEBINAR

Cloud-based collaboration tools like Microsoft Teams help bring your team and customers together, even when apart. However, the meeting practices developed in-person may not work as well over video.
Since paying attention in a virtual meeting can be especially difficult, it’s important to find ways to keep involved and engaged.
Watch this workshop, where you’ll learn how to use the tools within Microsoft Teams to be more productive (and natural) during online meetings.

What you’ll learn:

  • How to make scheduling simpler
  • Ways to reduce potential distractions during online meetings
  • Tips for sharing content and collecting insights during a meeting
  • How to make larger meetings more effective