A Jumbled mix of conversations with artists, creators and designers that make our heart sing. A behind the scenes look at their lives, their businesses and how on earth they got to where they are now. A casual chat with host Pip Brett over a glass of bubbles. Enjoy x
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In each bite-sized episode, we solve common business challenges using Microsoft Teams. Tune in for quick, actionable solutions—usually about six minutes per episode! If you’re short on time (like most business owners and managers are), feel free to jump directly to episodes that promise solutions to problems you’re having this very moment. Microsoft Teams is more than a chat and meeting platform. It is a problem-solving beast!
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The SBS Cycling Podcast is a bi-weekly cycling podcast. A sometimes irreverent and punchy look at the world of professional cycling with some serious bits profiling the big races and riders thrown in.
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0063-Where Should Our Policies and Procedures Go Part 2
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6:26After 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 outd…
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0062-Where Should Our Policies and Procedures Go? – Part 1
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7:34Teams 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…
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0061 – Heads Up – Your Teams Button Is Going to Disappear!
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5:13We 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 p…
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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 …
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0059 – Three Reasons Microsoft Teams Training Doesn’t Work
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6:56You 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, no…
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0058 – Isn’t It Harder to Use Both Email and Teams?
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6:02What 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 you…
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0057 – Solving Many Problems Using Microsoft Lists
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7:31SharePoint 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 effi…
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0056 – 8 Reasons to Use Microsoft Lists ASAP
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5:45Everybody 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 b…
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0055 – Why You Should Go All in On Teams - Part 2
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5:04After 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.By Arnie Howes
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0054 – Why You Should Go All in On Teams - Part 1
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6:47Going 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…
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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 …
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0052-I See the Value of Teams but I Have No Authority!
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5:55Are 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 …
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0051-Our Group Chat Topics All Run Together! Part 2
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4:56In 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 fin…
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0050-Our Group Chat Topics All Run Together! Part 1
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5:09Today, 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 …
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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 i…
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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…
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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!…
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0046-We Don't Know When to Use Chat vs Channel Posts!
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5:47Should 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…
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0045-We're Just Not Seeing the Value of Teams Chat!
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5:29So 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 …
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0044-How do I Find the Low-Hanging Fruit? Part 6
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4:04Finding 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!By Arnie Howes
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0043-How do I Find the Low-Hanging Fruit? Part 5
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3:04Today'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.By Arnie Howes
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0042-The Four Steps for Extreme Teams Success
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3:34The 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 perso…
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0041-How do I Find the Low-Hanging Fruit? Part 4
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5:35In 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-er…
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0040-How do I Find the Low-Hanging Fruit? Part 3
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3:53One of the first things you should look for when seeking low-hanging fruit in your business is third party apps. Many businesses are paying for duplicate technology. In other words, they're paying for third party apps such as Zoom or Calendly when they're already paying for Microsoft 365, which has the same functionality. In today's bonus episode, …
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0039-How do I Find the Low-Hanging Fruit? Part 2
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5:31In this second installment of the Low Hanging Fruit series, hostess Annie tells you one of the best places to look for opportunities in your business. There are huge low hanging fruits in every email inbox in your company. Streamlining these emails will save your company hours upon hours during the year. Don't miss this one!…
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0038-How do I Find the Low-Hanging Fruit? Part 1
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5:23Most businesses don't leverage Teams and Microsoft 365 strategically, or even tactically, because they see it as a tool for video meetings and instant messaging only. Boy, are they missing the boat! The root cause is business leaders - executives, owners, and managers - don't lead the charge. Implementation is left to the IT folks while the leaders…
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Perhaps you want to implement some, or all of the suggestions offered weekly on this podcast but just can't find the time or resources to implement them. The solutions sound great, but you just can't make it happen. The facilitated OMG System will help your small business or department achieve world-class operations and results within 60 days witho…
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0036-It Still Takes Too Long to Navigate to Our Files!
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4:37Computers were supposed to make our lives easier, but when we click through shared drives, top level folders, secondary folders, and then scan file names, it doesn't seem like our lives are easier. In today's episode, Annie tells you why navigating to information is so old-fashioned and how to use the ultra-powerful Teams search engine to make the …
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0035-We Need a Better Way to Communicate on the Job Site
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5:01Modern cell phones are modern-day marvels, but placing and receiving phone calls is a clunky way to communicate when employees are knee deep in their work. Today, Annie tells about the Microsoft Walkie-Talkie app that is included in your Microsoft 365 licensing. It is light-years better than the walkie-talkies of old and since it's included in your…
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Ruby Roseman-Gannon reflects on a year of highs and lows in professional cycling, showcasing her resilience and determination.By SBS
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SBS Cycling Newsflash: 22/11/2024 - Cavalli Climbs Back, Van Gils Breaks Away, Deignan's Final Lap
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1:55Cycling stars Cavalli, Van Gils, and Deignan make headlines with career moves and retirement plans.By SBS
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0034-How to Reverse Microsoft’s Questionable New Default Setting!
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3:37We've learned that when Microsoft changes something in Teams, or any other app for that matter, we usually end up loving the change or at least understanding why they did it. This latest change has us scratching our heads, and if you are strategically using Teams, you'll want to go right in and change the default setting back to the way it used to …
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0033-Our External Vendors and Clients Aren’t Using Teams!
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4:04You've streamlined your information and collaboration processes with Teams, but your external contacts - vendors, clients, and others - still communicate via old-fashioned email and you know it's not efficient. While you can't force external people to use Teams, there is still a cool thing you can do to use Teams when addressing their emails. This …
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0032-I’m Working Too Many Hours as a Business Owner!
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5:58You likely started your business because you wanted to be your own boss, because you have a passion for providing a product or service, or even because you had a get rich idea. Regardless what your reason for starting a business was, there's a good chance you're working too many hours. You most definitely don't enjoy doing much of the work you have…
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SBS Cycling Newsflash: 15/11/2024 - Rising Stars, Farewell Legends, and Roster Riddles
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2:38EF Education Easypost signs rising star Alistair McKellar, cycling mourns Michael Huebner, and 2025 rosters take shape with key riders still unsignedBy SBS
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0031-My Employees Don’t Understand OneDrive vs Teams vs SharePoint!
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4:58Most employees don't know the difference between OneDrive, Teams, and SharePoint. Since you pay a lot of money for files to be created, collaborated upon, and retrieved from the place they are stored, not to mention the risk to your business when files are haphazardly handled, it's vital that you and your employees understand when to use what. This…
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Grace Brown: Gold Medals, World Champion, and a voice for Women’s Cycling
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37:13Now back in Melbourne, Grace Brown shares her journey, her retirement and vision for the future of women’s cyclingBy SBS
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SBS Cycling Newsflash : Tour Dreams, Team Dramas, and Jersey Jumbles
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2:30Ben O’Connor is aiming for a podium finish at the 2025 Tour de France, Steve Cummings is leaving Ineos Grenadier amid team changes, and the UCI has introduced new regulations banning Grand Tour jersey colours for teams in 2025.By SBS
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0030-Our Entire Computer Environment is a Jumbled Mess!
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5:59Do you cringe when you think about going into your organization's shared drive or SharePoint site and looking through folders and files to find a file? Is your file storage completely jumbled? If so, you're going to love this episode. You'll learn how to change your thinking about cleaning up your hopelessly out-of-control mess of files. You'll lea…
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SBS Cycling Newsflash - 01/11/2024: Cryptic Cavendish, Pogačar and the 'brutal' TDF, and Demi moves to France
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2:25Your latest cycling news: Mark Cavendish cryptic hint for a 2025 Tour de France comeback, Tadej Pogačar praises the “brutal” route of the Tour de France 2025, and Demi Vollering joins FDJ Suez.By SBS
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The routes are out, and buckle up for the ride
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36:21Christophe and Macka review the 2025 Tour de France route, as it promises a classic route with historical climbs and concurrent men’s and women’s races, offering an exciting spectacle for us all.By SBS
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0029-My Open-Door Meetings are Disrupting My Flow!
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4:20So you want to be an open-door manager and ensure your employees know you will listen, but hate how those meetings disrupt you when you're "in the zone?" Today, hostess Annie Rynd tells you how to use the Microsoft 365 app Bookings to batch open door meetings and free up time to work on your most important managerial work. Bookings comes free with …
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Your latest cycling news: Gerry Ryan joins the Australian Sports Hall of Fame, Chantal van den Broek-Blaak extends her career, Chiara Consonni moves to Canyon-SRAM, and Tadej Pogačar commits to UAE Team Emirates until 2030!By SBS
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