Microsoft Teams is becoming a go-to tool for collaborating at work. Within Teams, individuals with the team owner role have access to controls and settings for team management that are not available to typical users or team members. In this short course, Nick Brazzi covers what you need to know to create and manage teams and channels in Microsoft Teams. Nick starts by showing how to create public, private, and org-wide teams, as well as how to set up tags that allow users to target messages to specific people. Next, he walks through the particulars of managing team members, including how to make other members team owners and remove people from a team. He also demonstrates how to manage team options and permissions, including how to use channel moderation to control who is allowed to make posts. To wrap up, Nick goes over tools for team owners in the Teams mobile app.

Microsoft Teams, the communication and teamwork hub of Microsoft 365, was designed to help coworkers meet, connect, and share their knowledge with others. In this course, instructor Nick Brazzi shares a series of concise tips that help Teams users sharpen their skills and leverage all that this communication tool has to offer. Each video is about a minute in length, so you can pick up insights in your spare moments. Learn tricks for working with messages and teams, customizing the interface, setting up notifications, running meetings, and more.

Microsoft Teams, the communication and teamwork hub of Office 365, was designed to help enterprise users meet, connect, and share their knowledge with others. In this course, instructor Nick Brazzi shares a series of concise tips that help Teams users sharpen their skills and leverage all that this communication tool has to offer. Each video is about a minute in length, so you can pick up insights in your spare moments. Learn tricks for working with messages and teams, customizing the interface, setting up notifications, running meetings, and more.

Did you know you can automate many tasks in Teams? Microsoft Office Apps and Services MVP and Microsoft Certified Trainer Heather Severino teaches how to do more in less time with bots, connectors, and flows. Heather starts by showing how to speed things up with bots, including how to quickly find colleagues and projects, automate meeting scheduling, create polls and surveys, and track team progress. Next, she shows how to pull in relevant content with connectors, including pulling pertinent news stories and RSS feeds. She demonstrates creating flows with Power Automate, which allow you to post messages to a Teams channel or conversation automatically whenever a new Planner task is created, a new Forms response is received, an Outlook email arrives, or a new tweet matches a particular hashtag. Finally, Heather shares where to go for more help in automating Microsoft Teams.

For many users and organizations, Microsoft Teams isn’t just for chatting with coworkers and team members, it’s the new work hub. You can hold meetings, share files, and access frequently used apps, all within Teams. In this course, Gini von Courter shows how to take Teams to the next level by building custom apps using Microsoft Power Apps and the Microsoft Dataverse. Custom apps in Teams allows specific members of a group or organization to have a data-rich experience while using Teams, such as sharing table-based data, collecting data from multiple sources, aggregating data across the web, and even making mobile data-based apps that launch inside of Microsoft Teams. Best of all, with Power Apps, you don’t need to write a single line of code to create an application. If you can create a table in Excel or a list in Teams, you have everything you need to create apps in Teams.

With its consumer version of Microsoft Teams, Microsoft offers a way to get organized at home. Instructor Heather Severino walks you through how you can use the features and tools in Teams. Heather is a Microsoft Certified Trainer and Microsoft Most Valuable Professional for Office Apps and Services. In this course, learn how to invite friends and family to Microsoft Teams, start and manage chats and group chats, and use Activity and Search to stay up to date with communications. Find out how to invite people to an online meeting, how to join someone else’s meeting, and how you can access and share files with OneDrive. Explore how Tasks can help you keep track of personal and shared items on your to-do lists. Observe how to start and answer audio and video calls, as well as how to capture and share photos. In conclusion, discover how to update app settings, reorder tabs in the app, and find the help and resources you need.

You can use the communication and collaboration features of Microsoft Teams with anyone, whether or not they’re inside your organization. Working with external users can be tricky, but in this course, instructor Nick Brazzi covers all the bases. Nick clearly defines what a guest user is and how to invite one to join your organization. He shows how a guest user accepts an invitation, sets up a Microsoft account, and signs into Teams as a guest. He explains limitations for guest users and shows you how to identify them in Team conversations and meetings. Nick teaches you how to invite guest users to meetings and how to join or start a meeting as a guest user. In conclusion, he shows you how to remove guests from a team and from a Microsoft 365 organization.

Microsoft Teams is changing the way we work. With Teams, you can share files in a one-on-one chat, during a Teams meeting, or by posting to a department’s Teams channel. Although many users are sharing and storing files with Teams, they may not know the best way to find previously shared files or how to manage file permissions. In this course, LinkedIn Staff instructor Nick Brazzi highlights the best ways to store, organize, edit, and share files using Microsoft Teams. Nick begins with a quick overview of how file sharing works in Teams. He then demonstrates how to view and edit files, including how to set and adjust file permissions. Nick shows how to manage your file libraries within Teams to ensure contents are organized efficiently. He also covers the most effective way to share your screen during a Teams meeting, showing techniques for PowerPoint presentations and other file types. To wrap up, Nick offers tips for managing files in the Teams mobile app.

Making the switch from Windows to Mac, or vice versa, can be intimidating at first, but the process is usually easier than people expect. Learn about the similarities and differences between the two operating systems in this comprehensive course with Nick Brazzi. Nick explores the software and demystifies macOS and Windows terms that can be confusing for first-time users. He also covers the setup, configuration, and effective use of a mouse and keyboard, including wireless bluetooth setup and interacting with gestures. This course also covers transferring files and email between Windows and Macs, and steps for installing and uninstalling new applications. While switching from one system to the other may seem daunting, after this course you may discover that, as Nick points out, Windows and macOS have more similarities than differences.

Despite the arrival of myriad new and modern languages, COBOL still rules many government and legacy computing systems. Many of these systems are due to be retired, and the organization's applications must be migrated to a modern environment. In this course, learn about the ways in which developers can migrate legacy COBOL applications, the challenges in doing so, and techniques and tips for succeeding in a smooth transition. Discover various techniques and tools you can use to analyze legacy COBOL source code. Explore how to use visualization to better understand legacy code; how to extract code into a subprogram; how to effectively refactor code; and more. Get insight into some automated migration tools that streamline the process. Plus, instructor Malcolm Shore steps through the process of migrating some legacy-style COBOL application demonstrating key tools and processes along the way.

Are you an advanced MicroStation user struggling to excel in AutoCAD? Is your company using both CAD packages? Learn how to leverage your MicroStation knowledge to become a more advanced user of AutoCAD and work effectively in a multi-CAD environment. Explore the most powerful features of AutoCAD and discover how you can be more productive in this environment, whether you’re using it for civil engineering or architecture. Instructor Jeanne Aarhus reviews the toolset by category, including the Draw and Modify tools, and shows how to use the Clipboard to its fullest advantage, by pasting exactly the content you need in just the format you want—such as a hyperlink, block, and more. Plus, learn how to use all the grip types in AutoCAD and work with layers more effectively, including layer commands, layer properties, layer filters, and layer states.

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Learn how to successfully migrate from Google Universal Analytics to Google Analytics 4 (GA4). In this course, Google Analytics expert Dana DiTomaso covers the important aspects to consider when making the switch to the new GA4 platform. Dana explains key topics like how to translate events, how to leverage the new GA4 features, and how to create comparison reports. In addition to the nuts and bolts of the migration, she also expounds on how to best communicate about GA4 with your team members, so that everyone has an understanding of the new, exciting platform.

A successful migration to Azure requires carefully planning your strategy, organizing your existing resources, identifying what should migrate, becoming familiar with Azure services, and managing the deployment of your plan. In this course, instructor James Millar shows you how to work through each piece of an Azure migration and provides best practice guidance for conducting your own migration to Azure. James begins with an explanation of the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework, then goes into how to define and plan for migration. He steps through how to organize your resources, manage access and costs, monitor and report in Azure, and work with Azure Monitor. James explores different migration scenarios and introduces you to Azure Migrate. He walks you through several migrations you may need to complete, then concludes with a variety of ways you can innovate and automate using Azure Cloud Services.

Are you missing a critical part of your management skill set? Discover a novel approach to improving your leadership: being more mindful with yourself and your colleagues. Mindful leadership is not a single technique or skill, rather it is masterfully managing yourself moment by moment as you lead others. Learn how to tune into your emotional intelligence, use your compassion, and recognize the verbal and nonverbal cues of those around you. Find out how rigidity can be a detriment to not only you or your team, but your organization, and learn how to embrace the unknown for better flexibility and problem-solving. Explore how your consistent mindful practice can help you bring your full self to any situation.

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With so many distractions throughout the day—from text messages to email to social media to meetings—and having to constantly multitask, it can be difficult to get anything done. This course guides you through several mindfulness techniques to help maximize productivity throughout your day. First, this course shows you how to clear your mind, center your focus, and use visualization techniques to regain a calm and positive headspace. It steps you through how to slow your breathing, regain a calm physical composure, and release tension to each portion of your body to gain a deeper sense of relief and relaxation. The course concludes by encouraging you to focus on yourself, recharge your energy, and regain a great sense of productivity.

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Get a new approach to managing your relationship with on-the-job pressure with the power of mindfulness. Mindfulness strengthens your ability to deal with job-related tensions that can negatively impact your physical, mental, and emotional well-being. In this course, get strategies that can help you identify what causes you to feel pressure, how it gets expressed in your body, and how you can mitigate its negative effects. Discover techniques that can help you control your reactions and walk away from your life’s stressors. Cultivate a healthier relationship to anxiety by learning how to clear your mind and body from its manifestation. Plus, find out how to avoid the chronic strain of rumination and integrate meditation into your life as a habit.

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The practices in this course are designed to support and deepen your ability to navigate the workday. Here, you can reconnect with your natural resilience, intelligence, and kindness. The exercises in this audio-only course include lessons on empathy, compassion, forgiveness, generosity, service, and seeing goodness instead of negativity. Join Tara Brach and Jack Kornfield as they explain how to use mindfulness techniques to continually find moments of ease, release, and stillness. While difficulties at work and at home may be overwhelming at times, you can still find ways to live with a creative and joyful spirit.

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Do you often find yourself in a place—at work or at home—but not present? This audio-only course covers skills and tools that can help you set a strong foundation for your journey into mindfulness. Instructors Tara Brach and Jack Kornfield show, for example, how simply pausing for a moment or steadying your breath can help you learn to bring yourself more fully into the present moment, develop greater awareness of your thoughts, and practice receiving the wisdom of your body in the spirit of friendly, open inquiry. With these practices, you can come home to yourself, your heart, and the present moment. Each lesson offers clear instructions for integrating mindfulness into your workday right away.

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Diversity exists in all areas of life. Fostering an environment of understanding, awareness, and growth is vital for your workplace. In this course from Chill Anywhere, explore ways to embrace this mindset. Discover the importance of body scanning, recognizing how you feel, and recognizing the diverse places in your life to help you recognize areas that are not diverse. Explore how to create a more equitable space around you and how to focus on embracing the moment. This course highlights that revealing imbalance is key to creating a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive world.

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What is assertiveness? How can you use it effectively while still respecting others’ opinions? In this audio-only course, adapted from the Negotiate Anything podcast, Lousin Mehrabi explains what assertiveness truly is, why it’s important, and how to use conflict to add value to your business and general life. Lousin goes over building the necessary confidence for assertiveness, covers different approaches to advocate for yourself, and concludes with useful advice for dealing with people who don’t like conflict. Lousin Mehrabi is a trainer and advisor in negotiations and emotional intelligence at Lousin Mehrabi: Executive Coaching & Training.

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