Each of these characteristics allows us to stay calm and apply various strategies when making important decisions.

One big question I have received since the online transition has been “How can I make my meetings more purposeful?” I get statements like “I can’t get my team to engage” and “I can’t seem to demonstrate meaning behind the meeting.” I would be happy to help! There are two strategies I use to better engage participants in my meetings: IEEI and The 6 P’s.

For 23 years, I have trained hundreds of students in Visio and OneNote, which are 2 of my favorite programs to work within. I have found over the years some students mainly have questions about performing faster and or quicker in each program. Let me begin with Visio and a quick tip to assist with connecting the shapes in organization charts and workflow diagrams.

The best trick I have ever learned is to Be Your Own Hype-Person.

This revolves around having positive self-talk and finding the strengths in the way you deliver. It seems simple, but when fear comes our way, we begin to protect ourselves and find any negative out there. Positive self-talk allows you to be assertive with the person who needs it the most in those tough situations: You.

Here is one example on how you can create a Custom Content Type in a SharePoint site, that provides more document template options for the site user when they need to create a new document in a library; when they use the New Document drop-down menu command on the file ribbon. Anything that we can do as Site Owners to improve productivity and efficiency of team members working in the Document Library, so everyone can work smarter and not harder! Teamwork makes the dream work!

Visual Studio Code (VS Code), by Microsoft, is a FREE small lightweight code editor that can be installed on Windows, MacOS, and Linux.  VS Code is not an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) like Visual Studio but it has many IDE-like features.

A recent IT spending survey conducted by Goldman Sachs showed that, while Amazon is still the largest of the cloud service providers, Microsoft Azure is the most popular provider and is quickly gaining market share. Organizations prefer Azure because of its flexibility, security features, and ability to scale, and employers across the country are currently looking for skilled Azure workers to help build out their online operations.

How to use Purpose, Audience and Tone in your Business Communications

With anything related to IT someone needs to understand numbering systems and converting from one numbering system to another as a basic skill to other skills. This piece is related to that requirement which is a basic skill in the following CompTIA courses: A+, Network+, Server+, Security+, CASP, Cloud+, and CySA+ as well as Cisco and Microsoft certifications.

Anyone with questions is invited to communicate with me at drussell@nhnashville.com and I will be glad to communicate with them.