05 Mar 2024
By Magnus Fälth
Why aligning your team for Microsoft 365?

Why aligning your team for Microsoft 365?

Alignment of teams
An obvious first question we get. Or rather, people usually are fully aware of the problem with not knowing how to do work in Microsoft 365. There doesn't seem to be one way for the team, but each team member is working in the mode they believe is the best. By aligning the team for Microsoft 365, the team members have a higher chance to find each other in the communication, not spend so much time and energy on looking for information, be able to help each other in working towards achieving the team's goals. So, how to go about…
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15 Nov 2021
By Magnus Fälth
Do you consider yourself a knowledge worker?

Do you consider yourself a knowledge worker?

Archive, Knowledge work
As a knowledge worker you apply your expertise to information to create products, make decisions, take action, etc. within the subject matter you are responsible for. As input for your work you use information. Information has gotten a bad name these days, from what I see. Information overload is something many of us can relate to. Our brains are trying hard to keep up with the constant inflow of information to our inboxes, our chat apps, our social media accounts. In order to do our job as knowledge workers. What you need to do as a knowledge worker is to…
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12 Nov 2021
By Magnus Fälth
Mastering Microsoft Teams – the structure

Mastering Microsoft Teams – the structure

Archive, Structure
Do you find that it's about time for you to take your next step in your use of the Teams app? It might be that you feel that your Teams app has become quite chaotic – too many teams, channels and group chats and documents? Then you might be suffering the effects of your organisation's lack of a strategy for Teams. A strategy would make sure there's an appropriate structure to the organisation's use of Teams, and that trickles down to the individual user like you. In their blog article, the company Storyals share their recommendations for how to make…
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04 Nov 2021
By Magnus Fälth
How to achieve mastery of Microsoft 365?

How to achieve mastery of Microsoft 365?

Archive, Visioning
Your employer has great interest in that you and your colleague master Microsoft 365, as it leads to better results and increased productivity on the organisational level. The common method for getting the individual there is to provide training in the form of trainer-led courses on how the individual apps function and where to click to perform an action. This has shown not to be very effective for most information workers in accomplishing the necessary shifts in behaviours and mindset. If you really want to achieve a mastery of Microsoft 365 that is stable, sustainable, flexible, adaptable, and that provides you value for…
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04 Nov 2021
By Magnus Fälth
What does mastering Microsoft 365 entail?

What does mastering Microsoft 365 entail?

Archive, Visioning
What does it entail to master Microsoft 365? The prevailing understanding of mastering Microsoft 365 is to know how to program for Microsoft 365 or how to learn about the apps and how to use them. The focus is very much on the technology.  A Google search on the term "mastering Microsoft 365" confirms this. There are only books and articles on the technology side of Microsoft 365. It is like if you would search for "master driving a car" or "learning to ride a bike" (or any complex situation where your brain needs to coordinate your actions) would give you how to build…
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03 Nov 2021
By Magnus Fälth
Why master Microsoft 365?

Why master Microsoft 365?

Archive, Visioning
Your employer would surely like you to master Microsoft 365; they have a lot of reasons for wanting that. But what is in it for you? Why would you from your side want to spend the energy and the time to develop mastery of Microsoft 365? Showing your managers that you are eager and will to learn to work in the new ways could absolutely be one reason. Having that kind of employee works for any manager as you will be helping him or her towards achieving his or her objectives to get the subordinates to collaborate and communicate in…
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25 Oct 2021
By Magnus Fälth
Leadership for Microsoft 365

Leadership for Microsoft 365

Archive, Leadership for Microsoft 365
What is "Leadership for Microsoft 365" and in which way is it of importance?  In order to get a group of people to change their ways of working together normally requires that there's a driving force for the change. It is often not happening by itself.  This driving force, that sets up some kind of vision of where the group ought to be moving to and then takes action to get there, could be the group's manager or an interested individual inside the group. Or no one at all, which is probably the most common. It is quite cumbersome to be the…
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25 Oct 2021
By Magnus Fälth
Self-leadership for Microsoft 365

Self-leadership for Microsoft 365

Archive, Self-leadership for Microsoft 365
Here we go to depth with the concept of Self-leadership for Microsoft 365. Why would you need to lead yourself into Microsoft 365? With Microsoft 365 the ways of working and making use of the apps is very much a personal thing. It is difficult to mandate someone to work in a certain way, from management for example. It requires a thorough knowledge of what you are doing during your workday, your current level of IT knowledge, the information that you need to manage, and your preferred style of managing your personal information, just to name a few of the…
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19 May 2020
By Magnus Fälth
Working Out Loud as a People Manager

Working Out Loud as a People Manager

Archive, Working Out Loud
Do you want to deepen your relationships with your team members? Working Out Loud (WOL) could be a methodology for you. In this blog article I will go through how a people manager like yourself can work out loud in Office 365 and the investigate what effects it can have. What is Working Out Loud? The term Working Out Loud was first coined by Bryce Williams in 2010 and he defined it as Observable Work (share your work in places where others can see it, follow it, and contribute to it in process) + Narrating Your Work (writing about what you are doing…
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18 May 2020
By Magnus Fälth
Nudging as a method for helping your people adopt Office 365

Nudging as a method for helping your people adopt Office 365

Adoption of Office 365, Archive
During spring of 2020, many of use has had to change our behavior in respect of social distancing, washing of our hands, staying home when feeling the slightest illness, etc. In many societies the concept of "nudging" has been used as one method for getting people to alter their behavior and it could very well be that you have been nudged in the right direction without even realizing it. Nudging is based on the idea of not overloading people with information, but instead send out signals to help them do what is best for themselves and for the people around…
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