0067-Copilot AI in Your Business Series Kickoff

1,001 Business Problems Solved with Microsoft Teams

1,001 Business Problems Solved with Microsoft Teams

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America’s Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders is back for its second season! Kay Adams welcomes the women who assemble the squad, Kelli Finglass and Judy Trammell, to the Netflix Sports Club Podcast. They discuss the emotional rollercoaster of putting together the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders. Judy and Kelli open up about what it means to embrace flaws in the pursuit of perfection, how they identify that winning combo of stamina and wow factor, and what it’s like to see Thunderstruck go viral. Plus, the duo shares their hopes for the future of DCC beyond the field. Netflix Sports Club Podcast Correspondent Dani Klupenger also stops by to discuss the NBA Finals, basketball’s biggest moments with Michael Jordan and LeBron, and Kevin Durant’s international dominance. Dani and Kay detail the rise of Coco Gauff’s greatness and the most exciting storylines heading into Wimbledon. We want to hear from you! Leave us a voice message at www.speakpipe.com/NetflixSportsClub Find more from the Netflix Sports Club Podcast @NetflixSports on YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, and X. You can catch Kay Adams @heykayadams and Dani Klupenger @daniklup on IG and X. Be sure to follow Kelli Finglass and Judy Trammel @kellifinglass and @dcc_judy on IG. Hosted by Kay Adams, the Netflix Sports Club Podcast is an all-access deep dive into the Netflix Sports universe! Each episode, Adams will speak with athletes, coaches, and a rotating cycle of familiar sports correspondents to talk about a recently released Netflix Sports series. The podcast will feature hot takes, deep analysis, games, and intimate conversations. Be sure to watch, listen, and subscribe to the Netflix Sports Club Podcast on YouTube, Spotify, Tudum, or wherever you get your podcasts. New episodes on Fridays every other week.…

16 days ago 2:55

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Packed with practical advice and lessons from the past, this episode sets the stage for a series full of actionable tips. Stay tuned as Annie delves deeper into Copilot’s features and how they can help businesses work smarter and faster. Don’t miss this exciting journey into the future of AI in business!

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0067-Copilot AI in Your Business Series Kickoff

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0069- Strategically Deploying Copilot 4:52

2 days ago4:52

4:52

Discover the amazing potential of AI with Annie Rynd in this episode of our series, "Copilot AI in Your Business." Annie takes a fun and practical dive into how we’ve approached technology in the past and why it’s important to avoid jumping into new tools without a solid plan. She shares easy, real-life tips on how to bring Microsoft Copilot into your daily work—not just to save time, but to make your tasks smoother and more enjoyable. With relatable examples, like how Copilot made prepping for client meetings a breeze, Annie shows how AI can be more than just a tool—it can be your trusted sidekick. By focusing on using technology in ways that truly help your team and your goals, this episode is your guide to deploying AI without the stress. https://www.countyquest.com…

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0068-Copilot - The Must-Have Tool for Modern Businesses 4:36

9 days ago4:36

4:36

In this second episode of our new series, Copilot AI in Your Business, Annie Rynd—your hostess with the mostest—dives into the big question: Why now? Why is Copilot, and AI more broadly, suddenly the must-have tool for every business? Annie unpacks the shift from AI as a futuristic concept to a present-day necessity, sharing how Copilot is more than just a digital assistant—it’s a strategic teammate. With insights like Ginni Rometty’s quote, “AI will not replace humans, but those who use AI will replace those who don’t,” this episode sets the tone for why adopting AI isn’t optional—it’s essential. Annie also shares real-world examples from County Quest Consulting, where Copilot helped prep for three client discovery meetings in seconds—saving hours of manual work and mental energy. From summarizing documents to drafting tailored agendas, Copilot proved it’s not just about saving time—it’s about working smarter. Tune in to learn why Copilot is your on-ramp to the future of business. https://www.countyquest.com…

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0067-Copilot AI in Your Business Series Kickoff 2:55

16 days ago2:55

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The first episode of our series, *Copilot AI in Your Business*, explores how Microsoft Copilot is revolutionizing workflows and boosting innovation. Annie highlights the surge in demand since its May release and shares insights from AI advocates like Gary Vaynerchuck, emphasizing the need to embrace this transformative technology now. Packed with practical advice and lessons from the past, this episode sets the stage for a series full of actionable tips. Stay tuned as Annie delves deeper into Copilot’s features and how they can help businesses work smarter and faster. Don’t miss this exciting journey into the future of AI in business!…

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0066-I Don't Understand How Tabs in Channels Can Help Us! 5:14

23 days ago5:14

5:14

Well-seasoned Teams users and site owners likely already know the value of tabs in channels because tabs have been around since Teams was released in 2017. We discovered in a recent workshop however, that the value isn't always obvious to newcomers. In this episode, Annie Rynd explains how tabs can simplify your employees' computing work while simultaneously helping your unique business processes. For more resources and our free, 30-minute Teams Quick Start video course, visit countyquest.com…

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0065-I’m Confused-Microsoft Lists App or SharePoint Lists! 4:37

30 days ago4:37

4:37

SharePoint Lists have been around for more than twenty years, but now there is the Microsoft Lists app and newcomers are often confused. Perhaps you've learned what Lists can do for your business, but just getting started is confusing. In today's episode, you'll learn the difference and which to use when. If you're wondering why in the world you'd even use Lists in your business, you may want to listen to two of our most popular episodes - 56 & 57 - prior to listening to this one. As always, you can find more resources and even get help if you need it, over at countyquest.com .…

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0064-I Have No Confidence in Our File Permissions! 5:04

5 weeks ago5:04

5:04

You know that punch-in-the-gut feeling you get when you realize your sensitive document has been accidentally made available to the wrong employees? How about that seemingly constant toil that occurs when employees legitimately need access to documents? While the permissions setting features in Teams and SharePoint are robust, most employees do other work for their roles and permissions setting is not their expertise. Today's episode tells you how to not only ensure the correct people always have access while the rest are denied entry, it also tells you how to eliminate that churn you experience when somebody needs access legitimately. Using these best practices, you'll eliminate much of the work involved with permissions. If you need hands-on assistance, be sure to sign up for a complimentary one-hour consultation at countyquest.com…

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0063-Where Should Our Policies and Procedures Go Part 2 6:26

6 weeks ago6:26

6:26

After last week's Part One episode, you know how to strategically store your policies and procedures in a way that protects them from unintended edits and deletions, but still keeps them in front of employees. In this Part Two episode, Annie tells you how to eliminate most of the work it takes to manage those documents without having dozens of outdated revisions cluttering your space. She also tells you how to eliminate the tedious work of saving them as PDFs and then moving them from the draft location to the final location. This is an episode you'll want to pass along to your HR department or other employee charged with maintaining policies and procedures. To learn more, go to www.countyquest.com…

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0062-Where Should Our Policies and Procedures Go? – Part 1 7:34

7 weeks ago7:34

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Teams is a great method to save and share workgroup files, but what about policies and procedures? Well, not so much...not out-of-the-box, anyway. Teams sites are designed to give all team members equal access for everything contained within, so that isn't a good solution for policies and procedures because you don't want everyone on the team being able to edit and delete such important documents. Never fear, because in this episode, you'll learn how to quickly ensure these documents are protected from undesired changes and deletions while also putting them right in front of employees where they work every day.…

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0061 – Heads Up – Your Teams Button Is Going to Disappear! 5:13

8 weeks ago5:13

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We usually give Microsoft the benefit of the doubt when they change things up on us. Even though change is never fun, we usually end up liking their changes once we get used to them. This latest change has us more than scratching our heads, however. Millions of Teams users are being blindsided by their Teams buttons disappearing from the left app panel in the Teams interface. In today's episode, Annie tells you how to get it back. You'll want to share this episode with other business acquaintances who rely on Teams to run an effective business!…

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0060 - The General Channel Best Practice 5:52

9 weeks ago5:52

5:52

If your Teams site is more than a few months old, you likely still have a channel named "General." If you leverage channels, as you should, this channel may serve no obvious purpose yet. Or, if you don't leverage channels, this channel may have become a dumping ground for everything. Regardless, the General channel has been a source of clutter and uncertainty for a lot of Teams users and site owners. In this episode, Annie Rynd tells you a great best practice that gives the General channel a purpose. And, if your Teams site is only a couple months old and you do not have a General channel, you'll probably want to build one after listening to this best practice. Want to learn more about Teams and how to improve your business? Go to teamsquickstart.com for more resources.…

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0059 – Three Reasons Microsoft Teams Training Doesn’t Work 6:56

10 weeks ago6:56

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You paid an excellent trainer to give your employees Teams training. Perhaps you gave them all the best online Teams courses. But...Teams still hasn't taken hold and the results are underwhelming. You're very disappointed. Maybe Teams isn't all it's cracked up to be. The truth of the matter is that the problem is not the quality of the training, nor is it that your employees just don't get it. There are three common causes for the failure of Teams training to deliver the results you're wanting and in this six-minute episode, host Annie Rynd tells you what those root causes are and how to avoid them (or recover if you've already been down that road). Register for our free, 30-minute Teams Quick Start training course!…

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0058 – Isn’t It Harder to Use Both Email and Teams? 6:02

11 weeks ago6:02

6:02

What if you have successfully moved your employees to Teams, getting them to always send Teams chat messages and channel posts rather than emails, but their customers, vendors, and other external people continue using email? Isn't that confusing? Well, not really. In today's episode, Annie explains why and also tells you how to begin converting your external contacts to also move to Teams if they're open to it. At County Quest Consulting, we always communicate with our clients via Teams rather than email, and it saves everyone involved a lot of clutter and work.…

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0057 – Solving Many Problems Using Microsoft Lists 7:31

12 weeks ago7:31

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SharePoint Lists are our favorite Microsoft 365 app to add to Microsoft Teams. As a business owner or leader, you'll love how Lists can streamline and standardize many things you currently keep in spreadsheets or email. From building your own CRM to tracking the status of complex projects or office processes, there is no doubt you'll find many efficient uses for Lists around your business.…

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0056 – 8 Reasons to Use Microsoft Lists ASAP 5:45

13 weeks ago5:45

5:45

Everybody uses spreadsheets in their business. It's a tried and true way to track items and organize data in a meaningful way. But, did you know there is a much better way to organize spreadsheet information when you have multiple people using and/or consuming the information? SharePoint lists have been around for more than twenty years, but most businesses don't have a clue what they do or how they can help. This episode will expose you to Microsoft's best kept secret!…

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0055 – Why You Should Go All in On Teams - Part 2 5:04

14 weeks ago5:04

5:04

After describing the problem most businesses face in Part 1 of this two-part series, Annie is back to tell you both the benefits of going all in on Microsoft Teams, as well as the four time-tested steps for succeeding with your own deployment.

1,001 Business Problems Solved with Microsoft Teams

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0054 – Why You Should Go All in On Teams - Part 1 6:47

15 weeks ago6:47

6:47

Going all in on Teams is like acting on a hot stock tip that actually pans out. Most businesses - especially smaller businesses - do not know about the transformative powers of Microsoft Teams. They may use Teams for video meetings and a little bit of chat, but they don't strategically leverage it to transform their businesses. This is the first of a two-part series on why Teams is worth going all-in on.…

1,001 Business Problems Solved with Microsoft Teams

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0053-Permissions Are a Pain! 6:22

16 weeks ago6:22

6:22

How many times have you scrambled to give someone access to a shared workgroup file? How many times has someone accidentally been given access to a sensitive file? How often have you resented trying to figure out how to set permissions? Or are you just sick of the mental clutter of having to keep so many shared files straight in your head? In this episode, Annie Rynd tells you how to set permissions one time and never have to worry about them again.…

1,001 Business Problems Solved with Microsoft Teams

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0052-I See the Value of Teams but I Have No Authority! 5:55

17 weeks ago5:55

5:55

Are you an early adopter, or perhaps just someone who sees the great value of Teams to a workgroup but feel you don't have the authority to do anything about it? Well fear not. In all likelihood, you can do something about it! This week, Annie tells you how to improve your workgroup's effectiveness with Teams, even if you are a lower-level manager in a large corporation or even if you're an individual contributor with no authority.…

1,001 Business Problems Solved with Microsoft Teams

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0051-Our Group Chat Topics All Run Together! Part 2 4:56

18 weeks ago4:56

4:56

In today's Part Two of helping you master solving the problem of multiple topics running together in a chat thread. While it is very handy for all conversations with a person (or people) to be contained in a single container - the chat thread - finding old messages seems to be too much trouble. Today, hostess Annie tells you how to very quickly find old messages and how to resurrect the discussion in a neat way. She also shares some valuable tips on working with external people via chat.…

1,001 Business Problems Solved with Microsoft Teams

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0050-Our Group Chat Topics All Run Together! Part 1 5:09

19 weeks ago5:09

5:09

Today, on our 50th episode, hostess Annie tells you not only how to solve your issue of topics getting jumbled into a long Teams group chat, but also how to build an incredible knowledge base for your staff or workforce. Whether you manage thousands, hundreds, dozens, or just two employees, this episode will help you improve the knowledge level of your organization. www.countyquest.com…

1,001 Business Problems Solved with Microsoft Teams

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0049-Improve With Work Habit Audits-Part 2 6:20

20 weeks ago6:20

6:20

A simple, but effective goal for any business is to elevate all knowledge workers, or computing employees, to the proficiency level of your best computing employee. Additionally, there are unknown workgroup improvement opportunities lurking in the daily computing habits of individual employees. In today's episode - which is the second installment in the series - hostess Annie tells you how to conduct a work habits audit to identify awesome opportunities to improve your business.…

1,001 Business Problems Solved with Microsoft Teams

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0048-Improve With Work Habit Audits-Part 1 4:29

21 weeks ago4:29

4:29

On today's episode, Annie reveals how any business can improve efficiency and individual employee effectiveness by conducting Work Habit Audits. If you're a business owner or manager who knows intuitively that your employees are not as good on their computers and working seamlessly together as they should be, this is the episode for you. Work habit audits can smoke out inefficiencies that can often be quickly improved!…

1,001 Business Problems Solved with Microsoft Teams

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0047-Who Should Own Teams? 6:27

22 weeks ago6:27

6:27

Who should own Teams in your organization? Answering this question correctly is the first step in improving your business with Teams. Whether you own your own business or manage a single department in a large organization, it is vital that someone actively own and improve Teams. Here's a spoiler. It's not the IT department!…

1,001 Business Problems Solved with Microsoft Teams

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0046-We Don't Know When to Use Chat vs Channel Posts! 5:47

23 weeks ago5:47

5:47

Should you use chat or channel posts? What's the difference? Doesn't it just confuse things to have two different ways to communicate in Teams? Well, the answer is a resounding no! As a business owner or leader, channel posts will become one of your favorite means of improving your organization. This episode is a must-listen if you're not currently leveraging channel posts, or not leveraging them in a way you find useful!…

1,001 Business Problems Solved with Microsoft Teams

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0045-We're Just Not Seeing the Value of Teams Chat! 5:29

25 weeks ago5:29

5:29

So many organizations are not impressed with Teams chat and that's unfortunate. At the same time they claim to be overwhelmed by their email burden, they can't see the forest for the trees when trying to make the switch to Teams chat. When a workgroup effectively transitions fully to Teams chat and channel posts, nobody ever wants to return to the old ways. In this episode, Annie makes inarguable case for going all-in on Teams and how to avoid the pitfalls most workgroups encounter.…

1,001 Business Problems Solved with Microsoft Teams

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0044-How do I Find the Low-Hanging Fruit? Part 6 4:04

25 weeks ago4:04

4:04

Finding repetitive work and automating it is perhaps the simplest way to explain low-hanging fruit. In this episode, Annie tells you one of the easiest things to improve and automate - meeting preparation. This is a short episode that is sure to be useful to nearly all organizations!

1,001 Business Problems Solved with Microsoft Teams

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0043-How do I Find the Low-Hanging Fruit? Part 5 3:04

26 weeks ago3:04

3:04

Today's low-hanging fruit episode is all about managing workgroup tasks. If you feel as though your workgroups don't have enough accountability for completing tasks, or if you don't think your workgroups' tasks are accessible enough (buried in separate files) this one is for you.

1,001 Business Problems Solved with Microsoft Teams

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0042-The Four Steps for Extreme Teams Success 3:34

27 weeks ago3:34

3:34

The new year brings a Teams success revelation because of a LinkedIn comment made by everyone's favorite business consultant, Alan Weiss. This comment was so eureka (is eureka an adjective?) that we've even added a new fourth step to our long-standing Teams success formula. What is that revelation? It's simple, you can do it with little added personal investment, and it will transform your collaborative and informational processes...…

1,001 Business Problems Solved with Microsoft Teams

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0041-How do I Find the Low-Hanging Fruit? Part 4 5:35

27 weeks ago5:35

5:35

In Part 4 of the Low-Hanging Fruit series, Annie tells you about one of our favorite low-hanging fruits - tracking spreadsheets. If you're like most businesses, you have many tracking spreadsheets, several of which suffer from clunkiness and errors caused by multiple employees using them. Tune in to this episode to learn how to bring those 1900s-era spreadsheets into this century and streamline one of the real time-eaters in business!…

1,001 Business Problems Solved with Microsoft Teams

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0040-How do I Find the Low-Hanging Fruit? Part 3 3:53

28 weeks ago3:53