How a Service Desk Manager Can Stay Sane While Wearing Multiple Hats Everyday

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45.84s through your questions
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1:26.48 with all of that being said let's go
1:28.16 ahead and get started so today's topic
1:30.72 is how a service desk manager can stay
1:33.36 sane
1:34.24 while wearing multiple hats every single
1:36.32 day
1:45.44 so priority matrix is for service desk
1:48.08 managers who struggle to manage all of
1:50.40 the following responsibilities so what
1:52.96 do common tasks and responsibilities
1:55.44 look like for a service desk manager
1:58.80 some common responsibilities can include
2:1.60 onboarding new employees
2:3.36 staff scheduling vendor management
2:5.84 budgeting
2:6.96 workload balancing and major incidents
2:10.24 so i've been with priority matrix for
2:12.64 just about six years now it'll be six
2:14.48 years next month which is
2:17.20 honestly just crazy to say time really
2:19.44 flies by but
2:21.36 over the past couple of years i've been
2:23.36 lucky enough to talk to a lot of our
2:25.28 first time users and also our long-term
2:27.68 customers as well
2:29.60 in that group of people there have
2:31.36 definitely been some service desk
2:33.52 managers or kind of leaders in similar
2:35.60 roles and so i've been able to get kind
2:38.16 of an understanding about what those
2:40.00 common responsibilities look like
2:42.48 and with that what the challenges can
2:44.80 typically look like when there's not a
2:46.96 good system in place to help you see all
2:49.12 of your projects and priorities in one
2:51.12 place
2:52.16 while also being able to collaborate
2:54.08 with your teammates
2:58.48 so what is the priority matrix approach
3:0.72 to support service desk managers our
3:3.76 approach offers an effective and visual
3:6.24 approach to managing priorities that
3:9.04 surfaces contextually relevant
3:11.04 information
3:12.40 while users are in a meeting responding
3:14.96 to emails
3:16.40 or focusing on projects
3:21.76 like so many companies over the past
3:23.52 several years
3:25.36 i can likely guess that you're probably
3:27.92 using the office ecosystem more than
3:30.08 ever
3:30.96 so you know just a couple years ago i
3:32.96 would come across people who were
3:34.32 definitely using outlook 365 but
3:37.44 honestly microsoft teams was not so much
3:39.68 on the forefront as it is now with
3:41.36 everybody working from home and it's
3:43.68 honestly just been adopted so heavily
3:46.48 so
3:47.20 over the past probably the past two
3:49.68 years or so one of our biggest focuses
3:52.96 was getting priority matrix fully
3:54.72 integrated into teams
3:56.40 and fully integrated into outlook
3:59.04 so you can continue to work in the
4:1.12 platforms that you know and that you
4:2.88 trust and they are already using every
4:5.04 single day
4:6.16 while being able to basically level up
4:8.40 so you no longer have to re rely on
4:11.44 sending chats through channels
4:13.76 and on one chats and teams
4:15.92 and kind of just cross your fingers that
4:17.92 those priorities don't slip through the
4:19.36 cracks
4:20.40 with our integrations you're able to
4:22.24 immediately prioritize those
4:23.76 conversations
4:25.20 those emails
4:26.88 and something very unique to priority
4:29.04 matrix is that while you're going to be
4:31.04 working through the office ecosystem you
4:33.60 are indeed still able to collaborate
4:35.68 with external parties we don't place any
4:38.24 barriers when it comes to that
4:43.20 so for the next probably
4:45.44 15 minutes or so we're actually going to
4:47.36 be taking a look at the live priority
4:49.76 matrix demo
4:51.44 so what am i going to show you during
4:52.80 this demo i'm going to start with a
4:54.56 really quick kind of basic overview so
4:56.72 for those of you on this webinar today
4:59.36 it's potentially your first time ever
5:0.96 seeing priority matrix so i don't want
5:3.20 to jump in and confuse you all before we
5:5.52 kind of walk through the basics that'll
5:7.44 be just a quick
5:8.84 intro i want to show you how you can
5:11.20 approach recurring processes by using
5:13.28 templates and recurring tasks
5:15.92 we're going to look at strategies for
5:17.36 having effective meetings via priority
5:19.44 matrix
5:20.72 and we're also going to take a very
5:22.16 close look at some of our reporting
5:24.00 which focus specifically on workload
5:25.92 management across your team or even
5:27.92 across a whole organization if that's
5:30.24 what you need
5:32.56 lastly we're going to touch on
5:33.76 escalation and cross-department
5:35.68 collaboration so for example if a
5:38.24 service
5:39.28 desk manager gets a ticket that needs to
5:41.20 be escalated or shared with it that's
5:44.08 definitely possible through the priority
5:45.76 matrix platform
5:49.52 all right so thank you all for staying
5:51.20 tuned until the live demo portion i'm
5:53.68 going to switch gears here and what
5:55.68 we're actually looking at now is
5:58.16 my priority matrix running 100 through
6:1.84 microsoft teams
6:4.72 so you'll notice in the top left corner
6:6.56 i have my priority matrix open and then
6:9.12 i actually have it pinned there so 100
6:12.32 i recommend adding priority matrix to
6:14.80 teams painting it open and then it's
6:16.96 going to stay there for you where you
6:18.32 don't have to go and search for it every
6:20.08 time that you would like to use it
6:23.52 so what's in the middle of my screen
6:25.20 here
6:26.40 priority matrix allows you to prioritize
6:29.60 your action items whether on an
6:31.76 individual level or with your teammates
6:34.40 or even external parties by setting up
6:37.44 projects
6:38.80 and these projects can represent you
6:40.80 know long-term things that you have very
6:42.88 planned out and that you're working it
6:44.56 towards finishing or you can just kind
6:47.04 of think of it as a way to group similar
6:49.84 priorities together
6:52.80 again these projects can either be
6:54.32 shared with your teammates or they can
6:56.32 be kept for just kind of your own
6:58.88 priority and task management
7:1.04 if you're working with clients and
7:2.48 external collaborators it's going to be
7:4.24 possible to share these projects 100
7:6.56 with them as well or
7:8.32 through a read-only version if that's
7:10.16 what you prefer
7:14.08 so when i open up one of these projects
7:16.32 or let's go to one that has
7:18.64 a little bit more context here
7:21.12 when i open up one of these projects
7:22.88 this is now that central space where a
7:24.88 service desk manager would be able to
7:27.60 you know track all of the moving parts
7:29.36 for a specific project that they're
7:31.04 working in
7:33.04 this manager would be able to share this
7:35.20 project with their teammates by simply
7:37.60 adding them over where it says project
7:40.00 members so i'm just clicking through a
7:42.16 couple here to give you a few examples
7:44.48 but again the idea is to now use this
7:46.72 project for any moving parts and in this
7:49.52 case we're looking at new employ new
7:51.84 employee onboarding as the example which
7:54.64 is absolutely something that a service
7:56.32 desk manager is going to oversee and be
7:58.56 in charge of
8:1.28 so
8:1.96 backtracking a little bit back to kind
8:4.32 of my main screen here i want to touch
8:6.24 on the first best practice for a service
8:8.64 desk manager using priority matrix
8:12.96 i've learned that a service desk manager
8:15.12 often deals with a lot of recurring
8:16.72 processes
8:18.00 whether it's on a project level or a
8:20.00 task level so using templates is going
8:22.72 to absolutely work to your advantage
8:24.56 working in this role
8:26.88 i set up this example for the employee
8:29.28 onboarding template so essentially what
8:31.36 you all are going to be able to do
8:33.52 is create projects and build out the
8:36.16 process 100
8:38.00 like i've done here in this example so
8:40.40 you know whether it's five steps or
8:42.72 300 things that you have to get done as
8:44.64 a new employee onboarding
8:46.80 build up that process as much as you
8:48.64 need to do
8:49.76 you can even go as far as setting
8:51.36 deadlines
8:53.52 when you're satisfied with what this
8:54.96 template looks like you can simply save
8:57.12 project as template
8:59.04 and then basically what happens is when
9:1.04 you're ready to reuse this project maybe
9:3.20 you have a new employee to onboard you
9:5.20 hit add project
9:7.44 and then when we go to my templates
9:9.12 we're going to see all of the projects
9:10.72 that you've set up saved as a template
9:13.28 and you can even share these with your
9:14.88 teammates
9:16.56 so we actually have a templates
9:18.64 pre-created on our website that you can
9:20.72 import to get started with but more
9:23.04 commonly people typically like to set up
9:25.20 their own templates their own processes
9:27.84 so you can reuse it and save time no
9:30.48 matter how many times you have to go
9:31.92 back and continuously reuse this
9:33.76 template and this project
9:36.48 so that's going to be best practice
9:37.92 number one for a service desk manager
9:40.56 when i open up this project again i want
9:42.56 to show you super quickly the concept of
9:44.80 setting a recurring task
9:47.04 again i often times see this done
9:49.04 quarterly or
9:51.12 maybe more so like bi-weekly by service
9:53.52 desk manager if they need to check in on
9:55.68 tickets check in on you know a vendor
9:58.08 they're working with whatever it might
9:59.76 be
10:0.48 the idea is you can set a deadline and
10:3.04 then you can make it recur let's say
10:4.88 weekly
10:6.16 so when i check this item off it's going
10:8.40 to temporarily go away from my quadrant
10:10.88 but you'll notice in just a moment it's
10:12.48 going to pop right back up with a new
10:14.40 deadline for you so again
10:16.56 this is going to be best practice number
10:18.48 two
10:19.44 for those recurring tasks
10:22.00 so at this point we've covered a
10:23.52 recurring project using templates
10:26.16 and a recurring task by setting that
10:28.48 repeating deadline those are going to be
10:30.80 two
10:31.60 best practices as a service desk manager
10:34.00 who's going to be using priority matrix
10:36.00 for recurring processes
10:40.72 the next thing that i want to show you
10:42.32 is our one-on-one view
10:44.72 so
10:45.44 as a service desk manager you're likely
10:47.52 overseeing a group of people and
10:50.00 oftentimes that requires checking in
10:52.00 with them making sure that the tickets
10:53.92 they're working on or
10:55.76 you know the priority the priorities
10:57.68 that you guys are working on together
10:59.20 are not slipping through the cracks
11:2.00 so
11:2.88 essentially what the priority matrix one
11:5.28 on one view does is it's going to give
11:7.84 you
11:9.12 a centralized view of all of your
11:11.84 priorities shared with this one person
11:14.16 and it's going to put it together
11:15.84 automatically for you
11:17.52 so looking through the scope of a
11:19.76 service desk manager
11:21.44 if i've assigned
11:22.88 20 tickets to somebody on my team our
11:25.44 weekly meeting is likely going to go
11:26.88 over hey are these on track and have you
11:28.96 finished them or what status update with
11:30.96 this the one-on-one view makes this
11:33.36 incredibly easy automatically generates
11:35.68 this priority list for you
11:37.60 and you can continuously add shared
11:39.84 tasks as well so when the meeting ends
11:43.04 you don't have to circle back and ask
11:45.12 questions and
11:46.56 you know everything is just going to be
11:47.92 here for you ready to go nothing will be
11:50.32 slipping through the cracks
11:54.08 i have two more things here on my notes
11:56.16 that i would like to show you all for
11:57.68 best practices and then i promise we're
11:59.60 going to open up the floor for the q a
12:2.00 and i would also love to hear how you
12:4.00 plan to use priority matrix as well so
12:6.88 hang in there just a couple more minutes
12:8.56 and then i'm going to turn it over to
12:10.08 you all
12:13.20 another massive responsibility of a
12:16.08 service desk manager is ensuring that
12:18.72 the workload balance is equal across all
12:21.84 of your teammates
12:23.28 and without priority matrix this can
12:25.52 oftentimes look like going through
12:27.04 emails
12:28.40 verbally discussing what you're working
12:30.24 on or just having that quick check and
12:32.32 hey how's it going are you overloaded or
12:34.56 do have more time but at the end of the
12:37.12 day it's honestly impossible to have a
12:39.52 true understanding of a workload balance
12:42.32 without the correct tool
12:45.36 so with priority matrix what you're
12:47.28 going to be able to do is open up our
12:49.60 workload management report
12:54.08 what happens here is
12:56.08 the system automatically shows you
12:57.84 everybody on your team who you're using
13:0.48 priority matrix with
13:3.04 and from here it's going to allow you to
13:5.60 filter it based off of what you need to
13:7.20 see so for me number of items that i
13:10.00 have due today
13:11.60 that's kind of how my brain works and
13:13.36 that's how i prefer to see this workload
13:15.20 management report
13:16.72 but if you schedule your priorities with
13:18.56 effort hours or scheduled hours
13:21.60 that view is also going to be available
13:23.44 for you
13:24.64 additionally i like to point out that
13:26.08 you can choose the time frame that
13:27.36 you're looking in
13:29.68 so from a management perspective looking
13:32.16 at myself here i can say okay
13:34.48 thursday today what does erica have due
13:37.20 today if i click on this number three it
13:40.56 shows me all the priorities that i have
13:42.56 scheduled to be due today
13:45.52 so as a service desk manager who has a
13:48.88 huge responsibility of making sure
13:51.60 everybody has a decent workload balance
13:54.48 not overloaded equally as importantly
13:56.72 not under loaded this workload
13:58.88 management report has taken out the
14:1.44 legwork of
14:3.12 manually computing this or again having
14:5.52 that verbal conversation that can kind
14:7.84 of be inaccurate at times
14:10.24 and it's given you a perfect picture of
14:12.48 what everybody has on their plate
14:14.48 breaking it down as far as you want to
14:16.40 go
14:18.00 if you need to modify a task from this
14:19.84 view you can also do it that way so you
14:21.76 don't have to go all the way back to
14:23.04 your projects to update
14:25.60 your tasks
14:29.20 another thing that i wanted to touch on
14:30.96 is in terms of using priority matrix
14:33.20 with external parties so let's say here
14:36.48 let me just add
14:38.16 my project tag back here so it doesn't
14:40.16 look too crazy
14:43.44 another responsibility of a service desk
14:45.52 manager is
14:47.12 those relationships with vendors so
14:49.60 again this would be a perfect example of
14:51.68 using a template for a new management a
14:54.64 new vendor management process
14:56.96 but alternatively i also like to point
14:59.28 out that if your vendor needs to be
15:1.84 involved with
15:3.60 you know a conversation with yourself
15:5.44 uploading files you know being on track
15:7.84 with those deadlines you can also
15:10.72 share this project with your external
15:13.12 vendors
15:14.08 if that's something that's of interest
15:15.52 to you let me know and we can kind of go
15:17.20 into what that account setup would look
15:18.96 like
15:21.36 and alternatively if you're working with
15:23.68 your vendors through channels or through
15:26.64 one-on-one chats
15:28.16 you can even pin those projects to the
15:30.56 top of your microsoft teams system
15:34.40 to make it just that much easier to
15:36.24 collaborate with those external parties
15:40.72 if a ticket comes in as a service desk
15:42.80 manager that needs to be escalated or
15:45.04 delegated to somebody in a different
15:46.88 group or department again that's not a
15:49.28 problem at all as long as they're using
15:51.28 priority matrix with you you simply just
15:53.36 need to share the project with them and
15:55.60 then you'll be able to delegate that
15:57.28 task out to them
16:1.28 so going back to the presentation here
16:3.76 let's look at the agenda again just to
16:5.44 make sure i touch on everything so we
16:7.12 did
16:8.64 it looks like we were able to touch on
16:10.72 all of these points that i definitely
16:12.40 wanted to focus on since i know they are
16:14.88 for sure relevant for a service desk
16:16.88 manager
16:18.72 so what were the key takeaways from that
16:20.48 presentation
16:21.76 as a manager you're going to have
16:23.28 everything in one place for less context
16:25.68 switching
16:26.80 you're going to have contextual
16:28.00 information when you need it most such
16:29.76 as during one-on-one or group meetings
16:32.72 and there's an effective visual approach
16:34.88 for easy prioritization
16:37.36 so unlike other applications that you've
16:40.00 likely looked at
16:41.60 a lot of the times i get feedback that
16:43.68 it just looks like a giant list of
16:45.12 things that you need to get done
16:47.04 and for a lot of people you know that's
16:49.44 definitely not an effective way to
16:51.68 manage your tasks
16:53.28 people love priority matrix because of
16:55.44 the four quadrant system and the ability
16:58.16 to further prioritize with things like
17:0.16 icons
17:1.36 and deadlines
17:5.44 with all that being said that was a lot
17:7.44 of information to share with you all i
17:9.44 do have you pulled up on my screen off
17:11.52 to my right so i'm looking at the
17:13.36 participant list and if there's
17:15.04 questions feel free to just raise your
17:17.12 hand and i can actually take you off
17:19.04 mute
17:20.40 or alternatively you can drop those
17:22.16 questions into the chat box
17:26.32 i'm going to keep an eye on you all over
17:28.16 on my right hand side but a couple
17:30.24 common questions that i typically get
17:32.96 number one how can i register for the
17:35.36 next webinars in my follow-up email i'm
17:37.92 gonna send you a list to all of my
17:39.68 webinars i have four scheduled for next
17:41.84 week so be sure to check those out
17:45.68 the next question that i typically get
17:47.52 is how can or rather will my company
17:50.24 allow me to use priority matrix the
17:52.88 answer is yes we've gone through a lot
17:55.52 of hurdles for um our security basically
17:59.84 and
18:0.64 at the end of the day we were able to
18:2.40 achieve a microsoft security
18:4.24 certification which if you have any
18:6.88 questions about that or if you're
18:8.00 concerned that you may not get priority
18:10.24 matrix approved let me know more than
18:12.72 happy to email it over to you
18:16.24 and last but not least the question that
18:18.32 i get a lot of the times is how do i
18:19.92 onboard my team effectively and you know
18:22.40 quickly as well
18:24.00 we offer a lot of different training
18:25.84 options for our enterprise customers we
18:28.80 actually offer customized webinars and
18:31.44 one-on-one or team training sessions
18:33.52 which
18:34.48 at the end of the day are definitely
18:35.92 going to be the most effective way to
18:37.44 get everybody up and running
18:40.40 for users on our different licenses
18:43.04 below the enterprise option we have
18:45.84 an incredibly well built out youtube
18:48.16 channel with new videos added every
18:50.08 single day which
18:51.60 is definitely going to be your best
18:52.88 go-to option for getting your team up
18:55.12 and running with the new priority matrix
19:0.80 with all of that being said i don't see
19:2.96 any other questions coming through
19:5.52 so i'm going to go ahead and end the
19:8.48 screen chair and stop the recording