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Beating the Pandemic Blues: Ignite Your Spark and Reclaim 2020

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We caught up with Stephanie Barros, High Performance Coach, Author and Facilitator, on beating the pandemic blues to reclaim your personal power and potential.

No doubt it’s been a turbulent time in the world. But the one thing I know from my experience of coaching and mentoring individuals and teams is that if we keep managing our attitudes and moving things forward, no matter where we are, at home or out and about we continue to achieve. Personally, I’m STILL locked down, but STILL fired up!

I fear that this pandemic and the world’s turbulence is STOPPING so many peoples’ ENJOYMENT of life.  Worse, it’s HALTING their progress. Most people are thinking WAY too SHORT TERM right now.  They’re grasping at comfort, they distract themselves online, on socials, on Netflix and television and news. They’re blowing entire DAYS and WEEKS.

They keep “waiting” for better times without realizing the power of THIS moment.

But there are ways we can progress and work towards our aspirations, potential and purpose, whether we are in lockdown, at home or out and about.

While each of us has been affected differently, some are losing jobs and businesses and dreams and relationships in this pandemic, the way we deal with the situation, how we own it, are all things we can influence and will shape our outcomes.

#1 Own Your Agenda

In the past few weeks, have you felt like your daily agenda and overall life direction has been of your own choosing?

If your answer is Yes – awesome, staying true to yourself and your own path or mission is a mark of greatness and personal freedom!

If your answer is No – that’s not surprising, particularly given our current environment.

But you don’t have to let quarantine distance you from your dreams. You can still create purpose, and move forward.

# 2 Reclaim Your Day

What percentage of your day is given to meaningful activities versus non-meaningful activities? How do you define meaningful activities? If you could wave a wand and design more meaningful or fulfilling days, what’s one or two things that would be part of that day? What’s one or two things you’d cut out?

Even in the most trying of times, how we spend our days is leading to a particular kind of destiny.  So, we must forge our days towards something that matters to us.

# 3 Set & Own Your Goals

What goal would you have to hit in the next 90 days if you absolutely knew you were making real progress in the right direction?

What area would you be skilling up? Would you remain disciplined for your learning, health, and mission?

You have the full personal power and potential to reshape your attitudes right now. If you haven’t fully upgraded your personal habits, your routines to those that make you happy and fulfilled and exceptional, join our workshop.

Join Stephanie at our upcoming eWorkshop

Join us to reclaim 2020 to keep achieving to your potential and reclaim your goals and aspirations.

Stephanie Barros, High Performance Coach I Facilitator I Speaker and International Best-selling Author 

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Sr. Relationship Manager – FastTrack MWA (Microsoft)

Location: Melbourne/Sydney/Brisbane/Canberra/Perth, Australia

Company: Microsoft

FastTrack Modern Work Architect  

Microsoft 365 continues to experience incredible growth as the company focuses on its productivity cloud strategy and enabling secure remote work for its customers. As part of Microsoft Engineering, The FastTrack team has a primary role driving this strategy and is looking for individuals that share in the passion to drive business value and customer success through the use of Microsoft 365 and related technologies.

Overview: 

The FastTrack team is looking for Modern Workplace Architects (MWAs) that specialize in helping enterprise customers deploy the Microsoft 365 suite aligned by three Modern Workplace solution areas: (1) Secure Remote Work to improve productivity (2) Security and Compliance and (3) Modern Management.  In partnership with the Microsoft field sales and services teams (STU, ATU, M&O, Services), this role helps customers transform their business and IT environments through adoption and usage of Microsoft 365. 

Responsibilities: 

The successful candidate will engage and develop deep relationships with select Microsoft enterprise customers to ensure they get the full value of their Microsoft 365 investment.  As a trusted technical advisor, the MWA will provide technical deployment guidance and best practices, design their migration and upgrade plans, overcome hesitancy and delay, and gain commitment from the customer to move forward with those plans.  They will then ensure FastTrack scale resources and Partners deliver that plan with the customer and resolve any escalations or delays.  

The MWA serves as the chief deployment coordinator, demonstrating both technical and project governance capabilities.  The MWA identifies customer deployment, revenue and transformation  opportunities through consistently evaluating the customer environment, engaging with customer business and technical leaders, coordinating with the customer account teams, and delivering briefings on relevant technical solutions and strategies.

Qualifications:  

This role requires strong leadership skills, strategic and critical thinking as well as technical expertise on Microsoft 365 deployment and products. Successful candidates must have excellent customer communication skills and demonstrate outstanding cross-group collaboration within and outside Microsoft.  This role also requires experience in dealing with Senior technical and business  leaders and what’s in and out of scope for the FastTrack Center.

  • Technical knowledge of the Microsoft 365 suite (L200 across suite, L400 on at least one workload (e.g. management or security) required
  • Ability to explain Modern Workplace technical vision, roadmap, key solutions and technical architectures required
  • Great customer facing skills including the ability to rapidly establish and maintain personal and organizational credibility with Customers and Partners through deep delivery knowledge and effective communications required
  • Proven track record delivering on team revenue or usage targets required
  • Ability to collaborate effectively with field and product teams to ensure customer success required
  • Microsoft 365 Planning and Deployment Experience with Enterprise customers required
  • Expertise and ability to explain key solutions and technical architectures in Microsoft 365 and associated technologies required
  • Superior communication and consultation skills required
  • Growth mindset; drive to stay up to date with changes to enterprise technology required
  • Travel up to 50% required
  • Enterprise-scale experience with cloud and hybrid infrastructures, architecture designs, migrations, and technology management preferred
  • Knowledge of how to work with Microsoft Field teams and Partners in landing the Microsoft 365 platform with customers preferred
  • 5+ years of professional experience as a senior technical resource with regular customer interactions preferred
  • Bachelor or advanced degree in engineering or computer science or equivalent work experience preferred

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.  We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

If you are interested in this opportunity

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Senior Program Manager – Melbourne/Sydney/Brisbane (Microsoft)

Location: Melbourne/Sydney/Brisbane, Australia

Company: Microsoft

FastTrack Modern Work Architect  

Microsoft 365 continues to experience incredible growth as the company focuses on its productivity cloud strategy and enabling secure remote work for its customers. As part of Microsoft Engineering, The FastTrack team has a primary role driving this strategy and is looking for individuals that share in the passion to drive business value and customer success through the use of Microsoft 365 and related technologies.

Overview: 

The FastTrack team is looking for Modern Work Architects (MWAs) that specialize in helping enterprise customers deploy the Microsoft 365 suite aligned by three Modern Work solution areas: (1) Secure Remote Work to improve productivity (2) Security and Compliance and (3) Modern Management.  In partnership with the Microsoft field sales and services teams (Sales Technical Unit, Account Team Unit, Customer Success Organization, Services), this role helps customers transform their business and IT environments through adoption and usage of Microsoft 365. 

Responsibilities: 

The successful candidate will engage and develop deep relationships with select Microsoft enterprise customers to ensure they get the full value of their Microsoft 365 investment.  As a trusted technical advisor, the MWA will provide technical deployment guidance and best practices, design their migration and upgrade plans, overcome hesitancy and delay, and gain commitment from the customer to move forward with those plans.  They will then ensure FastTrack scale resources and Partners deliver that plan with the customer and resolve any escalations or delays.   

The MWA serves as the chief deployment coordinator, demonstrating both technical and project governance capabilities.  The MWA identifies customer deployment, revenue and transformation  opportunities through consistently evaluating the customer environment, engaging with customer business and technical leaders, coordinating with the customer account teams, and delivering briefings on relevant technical solutions and strategies. Leads solution architecture efforts to complex technical needs, managing dependencies to enable cohesive and connected customer scenarios. 

Translate Modern Work technical vision, roadmap, key solutions and technical architectures into growth drivers.  

Qualifications:  

This role requires proven capability to define strategies for customer acquisition, adoption & renewal.  Direct interface with engineers, partners and customers to map product truth to differentiated customer value.   Expertise on Non-Microsoft competitive technologies as well as Microsoft 365 deployment and products is preferred.  Successful candidates will define the value proposition, positioning, messaging, investments and sales and partner enablement to support revenue and share growth and ability to influence cross-group collaboration within and outside Microsoft.  This role also requires experience in dealing with Senior technical and business leaders externally and within Microsoft. 

Required: 

  • Demonstrate working knowledge of the Microsoft 365 suite at L200 
  • Experience working with customer insights to assist with driving product improvements through collaboration with product engineering teams. 
  • Experience with leading peer teams and driving best practice sharing.  
  • Demonstrate experience driving delivery excellence and ensuring a high standard of Data Quality.  
  • Proven ability influencing customer decision making through delivery knowledge/value discussions.  
  • Ability to act as a technical lead for peer architects in their area of expertise providing guidance on customer deliverables and architecture.  
  • Demonstrate experience leading effective collaboration with sales and product teams to drive customer account growth. 
  • Demonstrate experience leading Microsoft 365 Deployment efforts with Enterprise level customers. 
  • Travel up to 50%. 

Preferred: 

  • Enterprise-scale experience with cloud and hybrid infrastructures, architecture designs, migrations, and technology management 
  • Knowledge of how to work with Microsoft Field teams and Partners in landing the Microsoft 365 platform with customers 
  • 5+ years of professional experience as a senior technical resource with regular customer interactions 
  • Bachelor or advanced degree in engineering or computer science or equivalent work experience  

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.  We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

If you are interested in this opportunity

Apply Here