In today’s world, we all want more flexible remote work options, and meaningful in-person collaboration. Empowering people to thrive in a more flexible work world requires rethinking everything—from how you empower people to be their best, to how you create culture, to how to ensure proper work/life balance.

The feature we’ve all been waiting for is finally here! Microsoft recently released a new feature for Planner tasks to allow us to create recurring tasks straight out of the box.

Unlike other tools in the 365 suite, such as Outlook and SharePoint, Yammer isn’t typically an essential tool for company collaboration. However, as an informal and social communication tool, it can still be very valuable for many organisations. This is especially true in larger organisations who may not have an informal way for staff and leadership to communicate.

Channels You can organise your videos by channels, just like on YouTube. E.g. you may have a channel for all your training videos, and a channel for Monthly Business Updates etc.

Productivity apps that help with planning tasks and making lists are essential for our work lives. Microsoft Planner is therefore a must-have tool in the Microsoft suite to help you plan and execute your personal and team-based tasks.

Keeping up to date with the constant changes in the Microsoft 365 world is admittedly not the easiest task. However, the Microsoft 365 Roadmap makes it simple to see all the awesome features that are coming soon or have recently been launched, and I highly recommend making this part of your weekly reading material.

Over the past couple of years, I’ve come across a number of shortcuts and not-so-obvious features in Microsoft Teams that save time and help to maximise the Teams experience.

Take a look at my top tips and tricks that you can start incorporating today!

Straight out of the box, Microsoft Forms allows you to receive an email notification each time a new response is submitted. However, this can only be sent to the user who created the form and cannot be sent to multiple people. So, what can you do if multiple people need to be notified each time a form is submitted?

A SharePoint anchor link allows you to link to a specific point on your SharePoint page. These are particularly useful on long pages with lots of content as they allow you to direct a user’s attention to exactly where you want as well as enabling them to quickly find what they need.

Did you know you can schedule pages and news posts on SharePoint to be published on a future date? This feature is especially useful for news posts as this means that they will not show up in the news web part until their scheduled publish date.

In case you missed it, SharePoint recently released a fantastic new feature – collapsible sections on SharePoint pages. Previously, this was only achievable via custom code, but is now possible straight out of the box to help you more easily organise content on a page.

As covered in a previous post, Teams is a fantastic tool for chat and collaboration and a great hub for working on projects and in teams. At some point however, it’s extremely likely that you will need to invite externals into your Team.

Microsoft Teams is the fastest growing business app in Microsoft history with over 100 million daily users and has quickly become the gold standard of collaboration tools.

In the past, many organisations used a few top-level sites with nested sub-sites underneath as their way to organise their intranet structure and navigation.

If you’re wondering how secure your Microsoft 365 environment really is, then it’s time to take a look at your “Microsoft Secure Score”.

Previously known as Flow, Power Automate is Microsoft’s process automation tool. This can mean automating simple business processes such as leave requests and approvals or complicated processes that span multiple applications such as employee onboarding.

At first glance Microsoft Forms is just a simple survey tool, however there are a number of excellent features that might just put this app on your favourites list.