Work
Seeing the forest
It’s probably an idiom that you’ve probably heard at some point or another. Whether it’s at home or work, we’ve all run into situations where we become so focused on the details that we completely miss the bigger picture. Tackling a goal gets tangled up in excessive contemplation and planning and it’s only a matter of time before the momentum at the project’s start begins to wane and you’re left wondering what happened. … we become so focused on the details that we completely miss the bigger picture. Examples can range wildly; furnishing a new apartment turns into an endless search for the perfect piece, a software deployment gets hung…
Skype for Business Online to become Microsoft Teams
A few months ago, my organization decided that it was time to examine an intraoffice messaging tool to supplement email as our internal communication tool. Over the years, we had seen a steady increase in brief email exchanges that would be more suitable for instant communication rather than the asynchronous nature of email. Skype for Business was nominated and subsequently deployed to a handful of staff as a pilot project, something mostly to test the waters to see if we, as an organization, could adapt to this form of communication. Adoption for the most part was painless and the general consensus seemed quite positive. As a side note, our organization doesn’t use…
