The key to success in any business is productivity. If you have a productive business that is run by a productive team, it will flourish and gain success in the market.
Which is why as a dealer principal it is important for you to utilize new software and techniques that will boost the productivity of your teams and your dealership.
This is where Microsoft 365 comes in, it is the single most effective tool for dealerships to boost productivity.
With the current trend of work from home, Microsoft has answered all your productivity problems by introducing Microsoft 365 for Business.
It lets users access cloud based software features that allow your employees to work from home with ease and without compromising on productivity. Microsoft 365 is packed with features that will help your team get more done in record time.
Let’s look at 3 of our favorites:
1. Microsoft Planner
Microsoft Planner is an excellent tool by Microsoft 365 that helps manage busy teams, it helps visually organize teamwork and tasks for project management. Here are some things Planner can help your team with.
You can create plans and add members who will then have access to the plan and can start work on tasks or ‘cards’ that you assign to the plan.
You can add checklists to track progress and leave notes for members.
Members can easily gain greater visibility to schedules; they can group and filter tasks and get notified on upcoming deadlines.
Members can leave comments and see charts of the team’s progress.
Cross platform integration allows easy access through any browser or mobile app.
Employees often find it difficult to adjust to new software, but with the Microsoft Planner they are working with software they are already used to from Microsoft 365.
This is a great tool to organize and improve teamwork no matter where your team is working from.
2. Groups
Microsoft Groups allows you to take teamwork to the next level.
When sharing projects with others, you can create exclusive groups that have access to a dedicated cloud space to share emails, files, calendars, and notes that are visible to members of the group.
It provides a shared virtual workspace that allows employees to effectively complete tasks. This tool is helpful for teamwork across multiple departments of your business.
3. Teams
Microsoft Teams is another favorite of ours. It offers collaborative communication between your team through chats, video calls, voice calls, documents, and files.
With Teams, users can hold meetings, reference dashboards, and connect with other third-party solutions. Teams creates a consolidated dashboard of many services, which can include the services that members are already using on Groups. Teams can also modify and maintain Microsoft 365 Groups.
With Groups, users can connect with each other, but it does not offer the communication and calling features of Teams.
Since the COVID-19 outbreak, Teams has left other collaboration tools in the dust. With new features being added constantly, Teams allows you to stay in touch with your co-workers no matter the distance between you.
For more information about Microsoft 365 for Business, or to discuss what productivity boosting options are open to you, let’s talk.
