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4 tips to identify what works for you
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Introduction
Table of contents
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Chapter 01.
Communicate
without effort
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Today’s workplace has seen a consistent while giving everyone a way to stay informed
and growing need to communicate in the about what’s going on. One-on-one, small
moment and keep everyone in the know. group and large group conversations should
Great ideas often start small, among a few close all be supported, and from the devices and
collaborators, and then quickly grow to include locations of their choice.
a larger team that helps bring them to fruition.
To keep that momentum going easily, intelligent Microsoft Teams, the hub for teamwork
communication capabilities are essential. in Microsoft 365, makes it simple for teams
to communicate in real time, make fast
Teams need to be able to communicate freely decisions and share content in an open
and scale up or down as needed, bringing and transparent way. Teams cuts across
additional team members into the conversation organisational boundaries by allowing private
chats, group chats or team conversations
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that are visible to the entire team. Work that Bringing all the conversations to one place also
traditionally required an in-person meeting lets you reference them later or easily bring
happens right in the hub – through chat, new members up to speed. The conversations
calls, smaller group video conferences and persist so other team members can view them,
shared files – faster than before, from virtually making insights more discoverable. Don’t
anywhere and even with guests outside your remember a decision made months earlier?
organisation. This allows your teams to be A quick search reveals an entire record of
more connected and enables individuals the conversation. New members just joined
to manage a greater flow of information. the team? Adding them will give them access
to group conversations and files in one go.
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Chapter 02.
Be more productive
through better integration
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When teams use disjointed applications, We’ve designed Microsoft Teams to be a hub
siloed information can make collaboration for both communication and collaboration.
feel like a complex, time-consuming effort. Employees have access to conversations,
They’ll waste time locating files, remembering files, people and apps in one shared
different logins or switching between apps. workspace – ultimately spending less time
searching and more time making decisions.
Your teams need flexible tools to work They can directly link to files, documents
with. When tools are integrated with the and emails for instant discussions and co-
business applications they’re already using, authoring within the app. It’s also integrated
work happens faster, enabling a frictionless with familiar tools like Word, PowerPoint,
communication and collaboration experience. SharePoint, OneNote and Power BI.
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-32.7%
Unsuccessful
Teams also enables visual communication adoption:
(operating profit)
between teammates. They can easily share
pictures and video, whether for clarity, emphasis
or simply a light-hearted response. Need some
face-to-face contact? Users can launch a video
call from a conversation in seconds.
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See increased productivity
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Chapter 03.
Customise features
for every team
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Every team is unique and needs a shared Teams should be able to pull preferred tools
space to work together – one they can reshape into their hub and have multiple conversations
and call their own, whether they are inside and work threads, as well as pin important files
or outside the organisation. for easy reference. Intelligent communications
including automation, notification settings
And no two teams work alike. Your sales team and chatbots can provide additional support
may use chat to share updates on leads and to ensure everyone has what they need.
website analytics, while your customer service
department might rely on quick calls to resolve Microsoft Teams enables threaded conversations
customer request tickets. within a channel to keep conversations
organised and key stakeholders informed.
Your tools need to account for your teams’ Work that has traditionally required an in-person
unique needs with hubs that are customisable. meeting happens in the channel instead.
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It also enables users to customise and Giving employees the ability to customise their
automate their chats with dozens of first-party chatbots and teamwork hubs means they can
chatbots and third-party app integrations. receive alerts and notifications as they want.
Integration with third-party apps means the
Chatbots can instantaneously improve work you used to set aside time to complete
employee efficiency. Instead of relying on can come directly to you.
an employee to pull data or retrieve an alert
or email, chatbots alert teams when an action Who-bot is the embedded assistant in Teams.
is needed or a report is ready.
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Chapter 04.
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When collaboration is needed, employees will data encryption for at-rest and in-transit data
find a way. Whether company-approved or not, in company cloud storage and email. You benefit
workers will still use instant chat solutions, shared from the Office 365 hyper-scale, enterprise-
document spaces, and more – giving rise to grade cloud: it’s the capabilities you’re used to,
shadow IT, management complexity and security with security, privacy and trust built directly
risks. Your IT managers are probably on the alert into the service. Compliance leadership with
for tools that don’t hold the same security and regulations, such as EUMC and HIPAA, multi-
compliance standards as the rest of your business factor authentication and secure guest access,
applications, but some unauthorised tools might help protect sensitive company information
still slip through. from multiple angles. Plus, because everything
is from one vendor, IT won’t have to worry about
However, it is possible to provide secured solutions another set of security and compliance issues –
without putting an additional burden on your or another possible breach point.
IT team. Microsoft Teams provides industry-
leading security and compliance capabilities, with
Keep your team secure
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Chapter 05.
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Once you know what to look for, choosing the right tool
can reinvigorate your entire collaborative process.
Automation.
End-to-end security.
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Explore Microsoft
Teams to see how
the right tool can lead
to increased productivity
for diverse teams.