Leadership in a Zoom Economy with Microsoft Teams (eBook)

Manage and lead a team remotely by intertwining leadership principles with the many robust tools of Microsoft Teams. This book shows you how to utilize Microsoft Teams in an effective way to achieve your global team goals.

Peter Ward is a Solution Architect on Microsoft Cloud software. He is the founder and CTO/CEO of SoHo Dragon, a New York-based Microsoft Gold partner focused on helping CXOs and technical teams obtain as much value as possible from Microsoft Cloud. He prefers taking the technical lead on Microsoft Azure / M365 projects from an architect and deployment standpoint. He is an M365 trainer and motivator.

Peter is a Microsoft MVP, co-author of four Microsoft SharePoint books, and frequent contributor to GitHub. He is keen on UX simplicity, and stays on the leading edge of technology. He thinks on his feet in meetings and complex situations, and gets to the heart of an issue while not ruffling too many feathers. He loves yoga, vegetarian food, and reading books by Malcolm Gladwell.

 

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Manage and lead a team remotely by intertwining leadership principles with the many robust tools of Microsoft Teams. This book shows you how to utilize Microsoft Teams in an effective way to achieve your global team goals.Leading a team is a challenge, but leading a team in the zoom economy can make you stressed out and overworked. Peter Ward gives the reader a communication and organization centered approach for the dynamic, hardworking, successful employee who wants to step into a leadership role and vastly improve their organization with the aid of Microsoft Teams. Ward shares his own "e;rules"e; for successful leadership of teams and small companies, to scale at a steady pace, creating a culture of accountability and responsibility, with a remote workforce, not using venture capital, and applying minimal bureaucracy. Ward says teamwork, right hires, diversity, and work balance are equally important as profitability. Leadership in a Zoom Economy with Microsoft Teams is a portrait of a productive, sane, balanced life that is organized and filled with rich results.After reading this book, you will be able to extend your Microsoft Team capabilities to day-to-day leadership principles.What Will You LearnUse MS Teams to build trust in your remote or virtual workplace with teamsWork with Planner, Outlook, and Tasks within MS TeamsCoach, mentor, and develop your team when you are not in the exact locationLead a remote workforce effectivelyApply an entrepreneur mentality to remote teamsCreate a culture that is innovative and creative when you are a dispersed organizationWho This Book Is ForManagers who want to step into leadership, and leaders who want to raise their leadership game using Microsoft Teams as a technical tool.