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How to Maintain Resilience in a Time of Crisis

The Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak will affect all of us for months to come and combating it requires cooperation on a mass scale. If you're feeling overwhelmed, don’t be hard on yourself. We’re experiencing something genuinely unprecedented. But we can take certain actions to avoid a mental health deterioration equivalent to the current biological and economic woes. In this blog, Billy outlines four ways that you can maintain your resilience during this stressful period.

How To Collaborate While Working Remotely With Microsoft Teams

With the majority of the workforce now moving to working entirely from home, people are adjusting to new ways of working together without being able to just turn to a colleague and ask something. Microsoft Teams offers many benefits for remote work environments, allowing teams to continue to collaborate and communicate. In this blog, Ed explores our favourite three features of Teams that will change the way you work in Office 365 forever.

A Remote Working Guide: How to Stay Focused and Maintain Work-Life Balance

The stigma around working from home has gradually dwindled in recent years. Office workers desire flexible working options and bosses are seeing the benefits of delivering them. However, the Coronavirus outbreak (COVID-19) still may be the first time that you and your team have had to work from home. Here is our guide to maintain your work/life balance and stay focused while working remotely.

We are monitoring the current Coronavirus outbreak very closely. Here is our current policy regarding our training centre, our online learning programme and what to do if you are not able to attend.

How Home Working Can Help Your Organisation to Remain Healthy During the Coronavirus Crisis

If your workplace had to close due to the Coronavirus crisis, would your organisation be prepared? Fortunately, it's now easier than ever to work remotely using tools in Office 365 and G Suite, such as video conference calls, online apps and Cloud-based file storage.

Reddico's Journey into a Self-Managing Organisation

Inspired by the Happy Manifesto, Reddico started the move to becoming self-managing in March 2018. In just 18 months it has resulted in happier employees, more satisfied customers, higher revenue and a big increase in profits. Henry Stewart spoke to Head of Operations Luke Kyte to learn how Reddico achieved this.

5 Tips for a Blissfully Easy Office 365 Roll Out

If you're reading this, you're probably involved or soon to be involved in rolling out Office 365 to your organisation. Whether you are setting Office 365 up yourself or liaising between your users and your IT consultants we have a few tips to make the process go as smoothly as possible.

Save Time in Excel with Autofill

Autofill is one of our favourite Excel tools for saving time. In this two-minute video, Nicky explains how you can use Autofill when creating a small budget spreadsheet from scratch so you hardly have to type a thing.

Public Course Dates for Google Sheets Now Live

We have had lots of requests for Google Sheets, as many organisations (particularly charities and public sector) have made the switch to G Suite from Office 365. We have now created equivalent courses for Levels 1, 2 and 3.

How to Make Human Resources More Human

At Sky UK, they have embraced Design Thinking to tackle common HR issues. Design Thinking is a methodology that provides a solution-based, human approach to problems. It aims to create multiple ideas during brainstorming, which can then be prototyped and tested in a empathetic way that people can easily understand. For Sky, in the final stage, they test people's reactions and gauge if it 'wows'. In this short video from the 2019 Happy Workplaces Conference, Tracey Waters explains how they applied Design Thinking to the question 'how might we help people at Sky have a fulfilling career?'