To understate the matter considerably, What a year it has been! We have endured political strife, social and racial unrest, and a COVID-19 epidemic that has wrought massive changes in the way we worship, work, shop, engage, connect, educate our children, and do just about everything else in our daily life. Understandably, many are eager to bid farewell to 2020 and put it firmly in the rearview mirror. It’s been challenging. And hard. And, in many cases, tragic.

A common issue that we’ve seen among our clients is best practices for communicating with larger groups of people. Often, there are simple and efficient solutions for these types of common problems, so today we want to share a quick tip that you can implement today to simplify communicating with your team.

According to the Marie Kondo method, if something doesn’t bring you joy, it’s time to toss it. While unfortunately this concept can’t apply to every aspect of your work life, when it comes to your job, applying a similar principle CAN potentially bring you joy.

The Cloud is a concept that is integral to today’s online world, especially in the realm of remote work, file storage and access, and the secure backup of data. While it really is a simple and incredibly helpful thing, often times it only takes a few seconds of talking about “syncing your files to the cloud” for people’s eyes to glaze over.

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Microsoft Teams is a one-stop-shop for groups to collaborate easily and efficiently, and it has become an especially helpful tool right now during the global pandemic when many churches and staff are still working remotely. One awesome feature we want to highlight today is Teams Calling.

In this webinar we explored how one church in Texas is effectively using Teams to engage their volunteers, and show you how you can, too! It is an incredibly powerful and helpful tool for any organization, and we have found it to be an especially good fit for churches!

While multiple options for communication tools is no new thing, the major shift to remote work in every industry has greatly increased the need for powerful, effective, user-friendly collaborative communication tools. In the church realm, there are multiple situations where different groups of people need to communicate in different capacities.

In our latest webinar, we explore why strategic planning is vitally important for stewardship and ministry effectiveness, AND how your IT budget and technology equipment impacts your ministry in ways you might not know.