Thanks to Microsoft Teams, your desktop app will always be up to date. But how will you know what those changes or updates are? If you have a Microsoft trainer already, you can count on them to sift through updates and alert you or your team for changes that directly apply to specific roles in order to maximize efficiency. If you don’t have an ongoing trainer, tune into these monthly updates for a quick rundown on new features, or tips & tricks to share with your team.
Read MorePerforming a self-assessment seems to be typical with discovering personality traits, or narrowing down a career path. When it comes to an employee or potential employee self-assessing their own skill level within a computer program (that also happens to be continually updating its own data), the results seem to be more opinion-based. So how do we figure out what somebody's starting point is when they need training?
Read MoreCreate a community within your business by utilizing small group training by professional Microsoft-certified trainers like Excel & Flourish.
Read MoreOnZoom is an immersive, collaboration-centered platform designed to promote community engagement. OnZoom is an “event discovery and monetization” platform that will make it easier to find virtual events in a whole range of categories.
Read MoreIs one of your New Year Resolutions to get yourself more organized? Well, start with your inbox and join the #Trimyourinboxchallenge! Stop right now and look at how many messages you have in your email inbox.
How many are there in total? How many unread? How can you stay on top of things, life, business, family, bills with all those messages just hanging out? Would you like to end each day with an inbox that is at ZERO? It’s not impossible, I promise!
Read MoreI do encourage that you consider using a Microsoft certified trainer. I've only been a Microsoft certified trainer for just this last year, however, I have been a subject matter expert for over 20 years, and I've been Microsoft Master-level certified for the last eight years.
In case you’re wondering, a Microsoft Certified Master (MCM) is a senior-level IT professional who designs and implements Microsoft solutions and wishes to demonstrate their skills and experience on Microsoft server technologies.
Read MoreAs we end 2020, the Excel and Flourish team wanted to share some of the most popular blog posts from 2020. Since 2020 saw a huge shift in the way everyone conducts business around the world, you will that our most popular posts are dominated by working from home strategies, Zoom, and Microsoft Teams.
Read MoreAccessible from the web, Windows, iOS, and Android, the free Microsoft To-Do app lets you set up each task with a due date, reminder, note, and other attributes. You can add multiple steps to a single task, organize your tasks into different lists, and share your lists with other people.
Read MoreBreakout rooms make it easy to divide your meetings into sub-groups to facilitate smaller discussions, brainstorming sessions, learning groups, and even holiday mixers.
Organizers can jump in between meetings on their own, deliver announcements to all breakout rooms at once, and bring everyone back to the main meeting at any time. And unique to Microsoft Teams, breakout rooms can be initiated both in Microsoft Teams channels and in Microsoft Teams meetings to give you flexibility on how you want to meet. Breakout rooms are especially great this time of year for mixing and mingling and playing games during a virtual holiday party.
Read MoreProtect and increase your investment in the Microsoft 365 Suite with the proper training so your team can grow together to drive faster, better results in the workplace.
I can't tell you how many times I've heard,” It's just the Microsoft platform. Why do we even need training?”
Read MoreMicrosoft To-Do is an intelligent task management app that makes it easy to plan and manage your day.
Coming from the team behind the Wunderlist app, Microsoft To-Do, currently in Preview, delivers a smarter, more personal, and intuitive way to help people stay organized and get the most out of every day. Powered by Microsoft 365 (formally Office 365) integration and an intelligent algorithm, it is the first step on our journey to simplify task management and help you to achieve more.
Read MoreBreaking up Microsoft 365 into classes makes it more digestible and enjoyable for everybody. With so many great features and functions, here are some of my favorite topics to teach through my Microsoft training program.
Read MoreWe are proud to announce another webinar series; the Ask Me Anything monthly webinar. Every month, our founder and Microsoft-certified trainer, Jennifer Buchholz, will host a live webinar where she will answer any questions on Microsoft 365, Teams, Zoom, or other productivity software.
Read MoreWe are excited to bring you a new webinar series where we will focus on a different Microsoft 365 (formally Office 365) topic every month. For November, we will be focusing on Microsoft Planner. On November 16, we will hold a live Q & A webinar on Microsoft Planner. We encourage everyone to bring their questions about Microsoft Planner, and our founder, Jennifer Buchholz, will answer your questions and share tips and tricks about Microsoft Planner. In addition to the live Q & A webinar, Jennifer also recorded a great overview video for Microsoft Planner.
Read MoreWe are proud to announce a new monthly webinar series called the Office Minded webinar series. Each month our founder, Jennifer Buchholz will explore a new topic related to Microsoft 365 (formally Office 365). Jennifer will release an overview video talking about a specific topic, then host a live question and answer webinar diving deeper into the monthly topic.
“I’m excited to launch a new webinar series focused on Microsoft 365. So many businesses have a subscription to Microsoft 365 but don’t realize all the products and solutions that have access to,” explains Jennifer Buchholz. “Each month I’ll dive into a new topic, first introducing the topic in a quick 101 style video, then I’ll host a live question and answer webinar that anyone can join and ask any questions related to the topic. I really want to bring a taste of my training to everyone.”
Read MoreThe fall is always a busy time for Microsoft Teams, especially with Microsoft Ignite earlier this month. 2020 might be a different kind of year, but Microsoft Teams is still rolling out exciting new features this fall.
Here is our list of some of the most exciting new features for Microsoft Teams.
Read MoreMicrosoft Ignite was just a few weeks ago and the team at Excel & Flourish are still talking about the event. We talked earlier about some of the biggest observations from the virtual event. Now we wanted to let you know about some of the top sessions from the event. Since everything was virtual this year, you can view these sessions at any time on-demand.
Read MoreWelcome to our new blog series where we look at frequently asked questions that we receive every day from our customers and partners. To kick off this new blog series, we decided to tackle a question we receive all the time… Can’t we just use YouTube for our training?
Read MoreWith Amazon Prime Day(s) just around the corner, October 13-14, I wanted to chime in quickly about the value of employees having at least one additional screen. There’s a term for it – screen real estate. When you think about productivity training, screen real estate might not be one of the top things you initially think about, but it can be essential.
Read MoreMicrosoft Ignite was truly a unique experience this year. For the first time, everything was virtual and free. This made the event open to everyone.
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