![]() Teams combines most every tool you use, all on one platform. There’s no toggling between programs for different tasks, or fruitless searches for emails or messages. Teams has everything you need, all in one place, anytime, anywhere. Teams is like the hosted bar, all-you-can-eat buffet that travels with you, wherever you are. Really missing your email or unsure when to use one or the other? Forward it to a Channel! Simply click the ellipsis (the three dots) next to any Channel under any Team and select “Get email address” which will then display the email address which you may CC emails to (but don't tell your team I told you that. You can hold meetings, have conversations, and work on files together seamlessly, no more email digging to unearth who said what, when. This segmentation paints a clearer communication picture. For example: for the Marketing Team you might have channels like “Blogs” or for Company Announcements you might have "General" (General Channels come stock with every Team) or "HR related", etc. Teams are groups of people brought together for work, projects, or common interests (i.e. So, let's streamline communication, shall we? Teams and Channels to the rescue. Threads with gnarled branches longer than your family tree have no place in the workplace. Whether you’re doing a deep dive into your email to find a simple file or looking like The Scream because you just hit “Reply all” when you clearly meant to hit “Just reply to Jaime”, email threads are a danger zone for happy days. ![]() Who doesn’t love a good long email thread with different conversations, sub-conversations, even sub-sub conversations? Unless I’m at a sandwich shop, I don't want to add a sub to my conversation. Plus, your other favorite apps are ready to seamlessly play along as well (think Power BI, OneNote, SharePoint and more). All the tools of Planner, all in one place: Teams. ![]() Simply add Planner to your Teams apps and voila! You’ll be a production powerhouse (for real this time). But what if the app you want is Planner? Microsoft somehow hasn’t made Planner into it’s own app but thankfully, there’s a handy dandy hack: The Planner app in Teams. Love toggling between 700 different apps to “stay productive”? Teams has APIs that pull in every different planning tool you could want. Simply press “Join” to jump in a meeting, “Meet Now” to start one or call someone without video, all straight from any device. Video or regular audio calls are effortless. Luckily with Teams, it truly doesn’t matter. "Can you see me?" If SNL skits are a testament to anything, it’s that not everyone is tech savvy. “I can’t log in!” “What’s the password again?” (there was no password). How’s that been going? In my experience, a little like a "Can you hear me now?" commercial from the early 2000’s. Enjoy!Ī lot of us have been video chatting with our friends and families lately. so when you say “Catch my drift?” people actually might. Also, what’s life without a little fun, right? Personalize your communication with GIFs, photos etc. Categorized communication is the way of the wise, and lucky you, you’ve got Teams. You can even name conversations, create group chats and search files saved to conversations. In Teams, Chat is used for the Quick Tap Your Co-Worker On the Shoulder with a Question style chats (without the tapping or the deep dive into your inbox looking for an answer). So, you go ahead and create a subject line, find the destination email address, type out your question, hit send and hope to eventually receive (and find among the 72 other similarly short and disconnected emails you received in the last 20 minutes) a response. Unfortunately, email is all that you have available. You have a super quick question to ask a co-worker. Scheduling Meetings in Teams (with Ease).It has an app or an API for most anything your productivity heart desires and comes stock with all you need to make your 9-5 your happy place. Need a little analogy to put it all together? Storyals's analogy of Teams as a house is spot on. Further, I'd add that, in addition to effectively organizing your collaboration, Teams also streamlines your personal virtual workspace. Whether you’re sprinting towards a deadline or sharing your next big idea, Teams can help you achieve more."Īgreed. All your team conversations, files, meetings, and apps live together in a single shared workspace, and you can take it with you on your favorite mobile device. "Microsoft Teams is your hub for teamwork in Office 365. Feeling clear on the how-tos but still asking wondering what the purpose of Teams is? Well, if you ask Microsoft they would (and do) say:
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