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How to Get Users Hooked On to SharePoint?

By August 16, 2017 November 5th, 2020 No Comments

If you’re about to develop a SharePoint, or you’re already in the process of developing one, the questions you may ask yourself are; are my Share-Point features well understood my users? And, how well does my SharePoint benefit my business and my employees?

To get better answers to above questions, let’s identify what SharePoint means!

SharePoint:

It’s a platform where an organization can participate, manage documents, share information, and collaborate to improve one’s or a business’s performance. Down below we have explained how you utilize SharePoint’s features in an incredible way. Keep reading to enjoy!

  1. Make your Brand Appealing:

Your users will be super motivated to use your brand if they find it to be attractive. To make this happen, you need to create the most appealing designs for your SharePoint. Generating new designs and ideas will make your SharePoint users obsess over it.

  1. Keep SharePoint Clean:

A SharePoint with an untidy environment will be irritating and ends up creating a negative user experience for any business. To avoid such feelings, take the time to perform audits, attend to user’s feedbacks, and fix issues from your side.

  1. Train Users to Become More Effective:

Imagine a scenario where you don’t understand a task, then, there’s no way you can perform it right. Similarly, if your users lack the proper understanding of the SharePoint platform provided, including its features, its uses, and its application. It becomes difficult to make the best use of it. Therefore, endeavor to train your SharePoint users to become proficient in its usage.

  1. Be Prepared to Endure:

To enable your users to learn faster and easier, you need to exercise enough patience; so take things one step at a time, and do not be too fast with knowledge transfer. It will take a while for them to fully understand, especially when they are new to the SharePoint platform. There are a sayings “a patient dog eats the fattest meat” Therefore, be patient to achieve an excellent result.

  1. Build Excellent Information Architecture:

To build an excellent information architecture, you need to limit the number of options you present to your users; to avoid leaving them in a state of confusion. Ensure that the information is architecturally logical. Why? Firstly, SharePoint users will be able to store, collect, or locate things easily without any enquiring, and secondly, there will be a positive growth and exceptional excitement in the user’s experience.

  1. Find out User’s Needs:

As your users use SharePoint daily, they may find out new aspects or difficulties that they face in their daily use of the SharePoint platform. To enable them to perform better, you need to find out the issues they encounter on a day-to-day basis and solve them quickly.  Or a better way is to collect a feedback constantly on how they feel about the system. Feedbacks and surveys help you find the best ways to improve your platform.

The time, efforts & resources you spent to make your SharePoint employees more proficient is never wasted. It does not only benefit your employees but also helps improve your business performance. Therefore, your time starts now! Do not worry about how to make this happen. Urbansoft is here to assist you.