Learn How To Hit The Collaboration Sweet Spot With MS Teams

If we do not introduce increased collaboration using the Microsoft 365 toolset, we have failed to deliver value for the Company investment dollar.

MS Teams have the most incredible tools and is the target location where Collaboration happens.

In this session, we will focus on 5 practical collaboration practices that end-users find real value in incorporating into their daily routines.

1 - Making Loop technology 100% practical with examples you can use
2 - Accessible collaboration for Humans in IT
3 - Chat groups and persistent messaging with simple techniques everyone can use
4 - Multiple channels across fewer teams but when to use Private Channels
5- Content sharing and your role as content owner

Any of these examples will make a fantastic one-pager in your Change and Adoption site design to make users understand the basics of MS Teams.

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Keeping Change and Adoption real: The Workshop

Based on the successful ADKAR Podcast series from Office365Distilled, this workshop by Steve Dalby and Marijn Somers (MVP) looks at the practical sides of Adoption and Change. It looks at ADKAR based practical methods of identifying the scope and depth of the change and identifying your Change Board and Management Team.

Taking this course will not only give you a new knowledge level of Adoption in your organisation but also take it to the practical level through a series of tools you can instantly use to judge the change and governance best suited to increase value of your applications. Most sessions feature interactive On-conference session to improve the takeaway value by collaborating with other members of the workshop and developing your own group ideas

Full outline available here
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“70% of Change Management Projects fail” is Fake News.

Have you ever wondered how to avoid Change-failure? This session will drive your MS Teams or M365 adoption project, providing the key steps to deliver a successful change program. You don’t need to be a Change Manager to achieve many successes.

Solid takeaways to help you define your Change Scope, RoadMap, identify the value by personae and identify the objectives that will drive your Communications and training planning.

Working through a practical model based on ADKAR we will identify the planning and delivery scopes that will ensure your new or experienced M365 users understand what is expected of them in your organisation.

The VIVA empowered humans in IT

‘Humans of IT’ is defined by the Microsoft community as Empowering technologists to achieve more by humanising tech. Viva is reaching out to touch Humans, their work, the tools they need and the collaboration and contributions in the workplace. We will briefly examine how AI benefits from Reinforced Learning from Humans to add value to derived AI content.

In this session, Steve Dalby will take the existing and new Viva applications, categorise them, and look at how to utilise and drive the value they bring to the ‘Humans in IT’, which, in case we have forgotten, is every one of us. #VivaExplorers

Understanding the lifecycle, Why, What and How of Viva Topics

Anouck Fierens and Steve Dalby present Viva topics lifecycle Driving Knowledge Management and Collaboration in your organisation. Looking at the value this Viva App can bring to your organisation and the relationship between information and knowledge and how to identify your critical topics in your organisation.

We will Providing real-world examples and live demonstrations, in this session, you will walk away with a strategy for moving forward. A Governance that defines the lifecycle and an outline of how to get started with your Knowledge Management Topics

Viva Goals: Unleash the Power of Focus

Witness firsthand how Viva Goals can elevate the employee experience, aligning work vision, tasks, and innovation. Steve and Marijn will guide you through the setup, governance, and adoption process, equipping you with the tools to steer your organisation towards Objective focused Key Results. Join us for a practical, demonstration-rich session and let focused success become your corporate reality.

Experience "Unleash the Power of Focus," a dynamic session with Steve Dalby and Marijn Somers, prominent podcasters, Viva Explorers and MVPs. This presentation features live demonstrations of enterprise OKR structure, providing practical strategies for team alignment and effective organisational governance.

Business transformation through Power Applications

In this dynamic session, Steve and Anouck ( www.FusionTalk.be ) will seamlessly integrate business strategy and technological innovation through real-world case studies. They will guide you through the process of transforming end-user requests into actionable solutions within the Power Platform ecosystem.

The session will unfold as an interactive journey, featuring brainstorming segments, requirement gathering exercises, and hands-on development of Power Platform solutions. While Steve delves into the business aspects, offering strategic insights, Anouck will provide a developer's perspective, giving you an inside look at the Power Platform's capabilities.
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Mastering the Art of Podcasting and Video.

Are you considering launching a podcast but feeling uncertain about where and how to begin? Or perhaps you're looking to expand your repertoire of instructional videos and establish a prominent presence in podcast and video programming?

Join Steve Dalby, producer and joint host of the M365Distilled and FusionTalk podcasts and Host of the new IT Depends show. In this session, we will understand how to conceptualise your show and create captivating content with engaging narratives enhanced by great storytelling.

We will discuss technology for creating content, ideas for selecting subjects, tools for maintaining quality, and areas of Skill development to ensure continual improvement.

Business adoption of NIS2 with M365 Security

We will take 10 key security points from NIS2 and align them with the M365 security toolset and look at how we can roll this out to the business. This is not a technical deep dive into security but an overview of how NIS2 can be enabled for the Microsoft cloud.

We will work through key attributes that NIS2 expects, their effect on the business, and the adoption of security settings as the business prepares to meet the new standards and ensures the company is ready for NIS2.

The promise for this session is that no Admin console will be opened or harmed during this presentation. NIS2 is not just a security problem; it will need Content Administrators, Data Owners, Developers, and Cloud Admins to introduce new processes and checks to ensure alignment.

You will walk away with ideas on how to prepare and a few clues on what you need to update on your tenant to be ahead of 2025.

Plan to Evolve: Securing your content

Securing your content used to be easy with SharePoint groups. Today we have a dynamic set of security tools covering containers, business separation and intelligence integrated within the content. Within the session we look at the security layers, the members of the transformation team and their role in the decision making that defines the security policy. From this session, you get ideas and direction to apply in your security governance

M365 produce many layers of content protection starting with the original site security model overlap a Sharing governance. Lay on top of this the Ethical barrier capability of ‘Information Barriers’ and finally sensitivity labels to create an increasingly complex security capability.

This session is part of an Adoption and Change program which can be delivered as a half or full-day workshop. https://www.seisteve.rocks/plantoevolve

This is part of a series looking at the Strategy, Humanity, Technical Decisions and Governance associated with M365 adoption, and the long, medium & short terms needs that breed success. Check out the full list https://www.seisteve.rocks/plantoevolve