Unlock the Power of Microsoft 365 to Propel Your Small Business Forward
This in-depth workshop is your key to unlocking the potential of Microsoft 365 for your small business. Learn how to seamlessly integrate various tools to streamline operations, automate repetitive tasks, and foster collaboration. Become adept at leveraging Microsoft 365 to not only enhance productivity but also scale your business efficiently and cost-effectively.
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Unlocking Business Growth: Key Takeaways for Small Business Owners from This Workshop Recording
Dive into the expansive capabilities of Microsoft 365 alongside MVP Matt Weston, and uncover transformative solutions tailor-made for your small business. With Matt's expert guidance, equip yourself with the tools and knowledge to tackle your unique business challenges head-on, and pave the way for sustained growth and success.
Customize Microsoft 365 to Fit Your Business:
Learn how to fine-tune your Microsoft 365 license to align perfectly with your small business needs, ensuring you invest only in the features that truly empower your operations and growth.
Unleash the Multi-Tool Powerhouse of Microsoft 365:
Discover how Microsoft 365 serves as an all-in-one toolkit for your small business, offering a range of versatile tools and services that can tackle everything from communication and collaboration to data management and security.
Level Up with Enterprise-Grade IT for Your Small Business:
Master the art of harnessing Microsoft 365’s robust services to bring enterprise-level IT capabilities to your small business. Elevate your technological footing without the enterprise budget, and give your team the tools they need to excel.
Optimize Your Growth with Smart Tool Selection:
Learn how to strategically choose and deploy the right Microsoft 365 tools for specific tasks within your small business. Prevent bottlenecks and ensure a smooth scaling process by aligning your tools with your growth objectives.
Elevate Collaboration to Fuel Your Small Business Success:
Uncover the power of Microsoft 365 in fostering seamless collaboration among your team, partners, and customers. Discover tools that make communication more efficient, teamwork more cohesive, and customer relationships stronger – essential ingredients for small business growth.
Transition from Getting Ready to Taking Charge with Microsoft 365:
Gain insights on how to move from just setting up Microsoft 365 to fully utilizing its powerful features to drive your small business forward. Learn to unlock the full potential of Microsoft 365 and make it an integral part of your business's growth strategy.
As this workshop is now on-demand, we've watched it and have the following to say ...
I was definitely firmly in the camp of "Microsoft is expensive to get decent productivity from" and "I need an enterprise licence to do that" when I had originally considered using Microsoft 365 to solve business problems I noticed ... then Matt came along and it literally blew my mind how much I was missing out ...
Up to that point, I'd been looking at solving problems with Excel spreadsheets, felt really clever with learning how to use Vlookup and pivot tables but honestly up to that point had realistically been scratching around for small wins. I wasn't even aware how that level of productivity gain could pale into insignificance against the potential within M365 - and with no greater skillset than the one I already had.
15 minutes in, after Matt had blown the myths wide open around licencing and taught me how to think about that purchase in a different way ... I was hooked and keen to learn more ...
We walked through some of the opportunities at our fingertips to build a better business and how we could use common services to make our day-to-day work lives slicker and free up more available time.
Reading the feedback in the chat as we went, it was reassuring to know I wasn't alone feeling like this. It genuinely is a must see workshop for anyone beginning or wanting to exploit Microsoft 365 as if it were their own private productivity helper.
Workshop Agenda:
This 8-hour recording is split into 2 parts.
In Part 1, Matt Weston MVP will walk through his Microsoft 365 Maturity Road Map and how to go through the 3 phases; Preparation, Consolidation, and Exploitation leaving you in a place where you can start to make educated choices about you Microsoft 365 purchase and also target the right services to the right problems..
Part 2 gives you inspiration and actionable demos to help use those foundations and turn them comprehensive solutions to meet your business scale and needs - quickly.
1
How to set up a framework for success
- Create your 'Maturity Roadmap' for Microsoft365
Licensing and getting started with Microsoft 365
- Debunking licensing Myths
- How to choose your licence
- Understanding the differences between licences and what add-ons are available
- Review of 3 common Licence scenarios and what the best approach might be.
How to sign up to Microsoft 365
- Step by step guide discussing the main decision points and options
Tips for Completing your Configuration
- Domain Assignment
- DNS Records
Exploring Microsoft 365 Productivity tools and the main considerations when using them, covering the following areas:
- Creation and Collaboration
- Cloud Storage
- Communication
- External Collaboration
- Task Management
- The Power Platform and Automation
- Other Business Tools
- Tools for the small business
- Basic tools to implement within M365
With summary of each of the following products:
- Office Pro Plus
- Microsoft Outlook
- Microsoft Word
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Microsoft Publisher
- Microsoft Access
- Microsoft Sway
- One Note
- OneDrive
- OneDrive for Business
- SharePoint
- Microsoft Lists
- Outlook
- Microsoft Teams
- Yammer
- Planner
- To Do
- Power Apps
- Power Automate
- Power BI
- Power Virtual Agent
- Microsoft Booings
- FindTime
- Viva Insights
Focusing on the Sales area of a company working through and example of how you might use M365 to build your sales board, covering:
- How to choose the right tools for your sales team (e.g. Excel vs Lists)
- Step by step demonstration building the Sales tooling
- Creation of Lists and how to use the different views and layouts to help manage your sales process.
- How to have all that functionality within Microsoft Teams showing in the Sales Team area where the data is most useful.
2
- Understanding the decision points to make educated and sensible choices about the services you use (e.g SharePoint vs Excel)
- The structures of SharePoint, Libraries, Lists, and Sites
- Sharing and Management of Files
- Demonstrations of each aspect
- Setting up project Teams effectively
- Key features of Teams to help with your business, including Chat, Meetings and External Collaboration
- Setting up Webinars
- Using Templates
- Key Benefits of Document Libraries and how to integrate with Planner
- Automatically create items from metadata using your library structures
- Which Microsoft 365 services can you use quickly and easily
- The key building blocks of a Holiday Management system you build and maintain with low effort and cost
- How to use the Microsoft 365 toolset to create repeatable, efficient processes that save manual effort
Key Takeaways
If you had to distil all that Matt teaches you into just 3 takeaways, here are the ones you should not miss.
1
Microsoft 365 Licencing myths blown wide open
You'll learn how to NOT waste money and instead make your purchase fit the needs of your business. You'll also learn why you this is more flexible than you think!
2
The best Microsoft 365 services to use for your business problems
You'll learn to pair the right problem with the right service. Saving you time, energy and budget. With the advice Matt gives, you'll have a catalogue of ideas to implement to solve these common business problems:
- Improve Collaboration & Agility
- Document Storage in the Cloud
- Fit for purpose tools for task and action Management
- How to reduce waste and increase productivity using automation
3
How to build solutions that solve real problems using Microsoft 365
It's not just theory. In Part 2 of the workshop, Matt opens the doors to share with you how he solved 2 huge pain points for his business using the Power Platform.
These aren't just cursory glances but in depth talks about the decisions made and the tools used. He covers 2 use cases but more importantly, proves you can do this too - using no-code tools available inside Microsoft 365:
- A Holiday Management App
- An App to automate his social media posts and amplify his engagement
Meet your Workshop Host...
Matt has presented at all of our recent Collab365 Summits. He always over delivers for his audiences and is one of our "go to experts" when we need help.
Matt also proved his skills by building out our entire Speaker on-boarding flow for our summits using Teams, Power Platform and SharePoint.
Matt Weston, Microsoft MVP
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