Global Move to Teams Only - August 19!

Allison Koch   our cut over went AMAZING!  Zero technical issues - and not many customer questions either!  I have been getting lots of feedback on the change management plan and how well everyone feels like it went over!  Today is our big excite day.  We brought in a professional photographer to take profile pictures for everyone.  We have cake (of course)!  And tomorrow and thursday we are doing Teams Collaboration training sessions.  Make sure you are working with your Microsoft account teams to take advantage of everything you can with them!  We were able to get a budget through Microsoft to use for our event. I don't know what the criteria is to get this - but our account team submitted everything they could.

We are giving away prizes for anyone that participates in any of the events:

An extra vacation day

Lunch with our CEO

Tickets to a Pirates baseball game (the pirates do a blood drive and if you give blood you got free tickets - no one can say I'm not committed to our goal - I literally gave blood for it! )

Microsoft Surface Go

We hung signs in the bathrooms - in the stalls and by the paper towels.  Amazing how many people commented on this and how it was the first time they noticed anything about the launch (aka didn't see it in their email).  I guess when you have nothing else to focus on - it resonates! 🙂

My dog Stuart is our O365 mascot.  We've done lots of things with live pictures of him - but for the launch we turned him into an animation.  Worked great!  We put him on balloons and stickers.  People pay more attention to a cute puppy than they do to plain old boring text!  Happy to discuss what we did with anyone interested in more information!

Our "Welcome To The Team" cake. The little squares are stickers or our mascot "Stuie" (my dog) we had madeWelcome to the Team!Our Pittsburgh Office Champions with our mascot StuieWe decorated our Champions' Desk with balloons. Everyone got a swag bag on their chairOur Microsoft Account team manning the "Ask Me Anything" desk"Ask Me Anything" desk