Managing a Remote Team

Posted by Dr. Shanita Williams  /  February 13, 2023  /  Team Leaders / Managers, Human Resources Management, Workplace Culture   —   1 Comments ↓

According to Gallup, 45% percent of full-time U.S. employees worked from home either all (25%) or part of the time (20%). In addition, 9 out of 10 remote workers want to maintain remote work to some degree. These workforce trends are clear: remote work, at least in part, is here to stay.

Managing a team can be hard, but managing a team remotely comes with its own unique set of challenges. But, if you’re adequately prepared, you can ensure your teams thrive no matter where they are located.  

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Training as a Service is Ideal for Teams Working in the Cloud

Posted by Dan St. Hilaire  /  June 15, 2020  /  IT, Team Leaders / Managers   —   1 Comments ↓

I’m always puzzled by organizations that insist on old-school training approaches when everything else seems to be moving to the cloud.

If your team is using the cloud to get work done, then it’s to your advantage to make sure that everybody knows how to use the cloud effectively. And what better way than to offer cloud-based training, aka Training as a Service (TaaS).

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KnowledgeWave's Professional Development Leadership Program

Posted by Mark Rickner  /  September 16, 2019  /  KnowledgeWave Courses, Team Leaders / Managers   —   No Comments ↓

How does your organization promote “Leadership”?

If you are like most organizations staff that rise to leadership self-select through performance that is largely based on inherent leadership skills. Everyone has heard the phrase “born leaders”, but is this really the best way to create a culture of leadership?

Many times, people are put into leadership positions and simply succeed or fail based on their own ability to build leadership skills.

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Office 365: Migration Communication Planning

Posted by David Thibault  /  January 1, 2019  /  Team Leaders / Managers, Workplace Culture, Training   —   No Comments ↓

Don’t expect your staff to meet a Microsoft Office 365 migration with perfect enthusiasm and seamless adoption. Resistance to change is a common outcome of a new program roll-out. Prepare your staff for implementation by tackling this potential problem head-on with proper migration communication planning. Take the following steps to prepare your staff to switch to Office 365 before launching the new platform for the best possible transition.

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What to Do When Your Boss Says No One's Using Office 365 – and You Led the Deployment

Posted by Jon Hood  /  November 28, 2018  /  Team Leaders / Managers, Workplace Culture, Training   —   No Comments ↓

Deploying Microsoft Office 365 is bound to fall flat at your workplace if you don’t pair the launch with proactive employee training. One mistake many organizations make is assuming implementation equals adoption. In reality, these are two separate feats and they require the same amount of attention from the implementation team. If the Office 365 engagement rate dissatisfies your boss and you were the one in charge of migration, take the following steps to get your team on board with the new platform.

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Create Surveys, Quizzes, and Polls Using Microsoft Forms

Posted by David Thibault  /  July 11, 2017  /  Microsoft 365, Team Leaders / Managers, End Users   —   12 Comments ↓

Microsoft Forms is a simple, lightweight app designed to help you easily create surveys, quizzes, and polls. In a business environment, the tool can be used to collect customer feedback, develop strategies, and educate staff.

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Office 2016 Tips: Simultaneously Edit a Document with Other Authors

Posted by Jennifer Patterson  /  June 30, 2017  /  Word, Office 2016, Team Leaders / Managers   —   No Comments ↓

When you simultaneously edit a document with other authors, it’s called co-authoring. If you’ve never experienced co-authoring before, you are in for a real treat.

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Learn Excel Online and Step up to New Responsibilities

Posted by Eric Sokolowski  /  June 14, 2017  /  Team Leaders / Managers, Training   —   2 Comments ↓

Do you and your team find yourselves with newly-assigned duties that call for more expertise in Excel than you’re used to?

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How One Team Used Remote Training to Solve a Problem

Posted by Jennifer Patterson  /  May 4, 2017  /  Team Leaders / Managers, Training   —   No Comments ↓

We just hosted a remote training session for a team in New Jersey from our home base in Vermont and WOW! It went great.

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Office 365 Tips Worth Sharing: Email a Link, Not an Attachment

Posted by Dan St. Hilaire  /  April 20, 2017  /  Microsoft 365, Team Leaders / Managers   —   1 Comments ↓

Your team is up and running with Office 365 and its cloud storage solutions: OneDrive for Business and SharePoint. (Congrats - take a bow!)

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Is Your Team Resisting? Office 365 SharePoint Training Is the Answer

Posted by Eric Sokolowski  /  March 29, 2017  /  Microsoft 365, Team Leaders / Managers, Training   —   No Comments ↓

There’s bound to be resistance to fully embracing SharePoint and Office 365. Perhaps because your team members may not know enough about how it works.

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Fix File Proliferation Problems with OneDrive & Office 365

Posted by Dan St. Hilaire  /  March 17, 2017  /  Microsoft 365, OneDrive, IT, Team Leaders / Managers   —   No Comments ↓

The routines and self-created processes we use reflect our determination to get our job done. We figure out how to make it happen...but it isn't always pretty!

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Tips for Using Office 365 Training Videos to Your Best Advantage

Posted by Dan St. Hilaire  /  January 20, 2017  /  Microsoft 365, Team Leaders / Managers, Training   —   No Comments ↓

As your organization transitions to Office 365, you’re probably on the lookout for training solutions to help familiarize employees with the new platform – and keep costs low.

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Why You Need an Office 365 Champion (or 10)

Posted by Dan St. Hilaire  /  August 22, 2016  /  Microsoft 365, IT, Team Leaders / Managers   —   1 Comments ↓

Using Office 365, I mean really using it to its full potential, is more than just technical. There is also a good deal of cultural change and process change required for moving to the cloud.

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Establishing a Culture for Learning in Your Workplace

Posted by Eric Sokolowski  /  February 15, 2016  /  Team Leaders / Managers, Human Resources Management, Workplace Culture   —   No Comments ↓

As responsible managers in successful organizations, we need our employees to steadily and continuously learn and improve. And research shows that’s what employees want, too.

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