Microsoft Teams is a Cloud-based teamwork and collaboration hub that can help your organization much more productive. Think of Teams as your go-to hub for teamwork and collaboration within your organization, where you can bring everything together – voice, video, chatting, document collaboration, and meetings – into one shared workspace. When you have a place to create and make decisions as a team, there’s no limit to what you can achieve!
-- Your staff has trouble communicating with each other. --
-- Your staff can't easily locate documents and/or conversations that have taken place. --
-- You have difficulty onboarding new employees and getting them caught up to speed on what’s happening in the organization. --
-- Your tools don’t “talk” to each other, making it more difficult to find the content you need. --
-- Your staff can't easily collaborate on documents and share various files. --
-- Your mobile and remote workers can't be as productive because there is no central digital place they can access no matter where they work with any devices of their choice. --
If you’re experiencing any or all of these pain points, you aren’t alone. Many organizations we’ve worked with have had similar challenges to these. The good news is, Microsoft Teams can help mitigate these pains!
Create various teams and invite specific people within your organization to join. Once added to a team, you can share documents and OneNote notebooks. You can hold both text and voice conversations with your team members. A new team member can be added anytime and will be able to easily get caught up on past conversations and previous documents.
You can share and edit Office 365 documents, like Word, Excel, or PowerPoint, directly from Teams. Simply share the file with your colleague and they’ll be able to open, view, and edit it right from the Teams platform. You can use Teams as a document repository, like SharePoint, which would enable you to share documents and co-author documents in real time.
The time that it takes to send an email and wait for a reply can hinder communication. With Teams, you can instantly and effectively communicate with those you work with, using group chat, online meetings, calling, and web conferencing. Plus, every conversation you have creates searchable chat threads, so you’ll always have a record of the conversation you’ve had.
Scheduling, joining, and editing meetings can all be done right from the Teams app, or from your Outlook integration, which will capture the original email content in the meeting invitation. Also, when you join a new meeting, a new chat will be created, giving you an opportunity to chat with all participants of the meeting, share files, and even have the option to record the meeting.
Microsoft Teams with a Calling Plan gives your employees full calling capabilities for business calling on a global scale. Plus, Teams transcribes your voicemails for you so that you can read them instead of listening to them. Want to replace your telephone system with Teams, or augment your current traditional landline? Let us help you >>
Teams is mobile-friendly, so you can use Teams on any device. With the smartphone in your pocket, you can still communicate and engage with your colleagues with the same functionality that you have at your workstation with your laptop or desktop. From the Teams mobile app, you can chat, make calls, join meetings, and work on documents!
Still not sure how your organization can utilize and benefit from Microsoft Teams? Our popular, free 6-day Email Course can shed some light for you! Sign up today and receive one email per day that is filled with tips and resources that should help you understand what you can achieve with Teams and what pain points it will help you solve.
Microsoft Teams is a part of your Office 365 Business Essentials, Business Premium, Enterprise E1, E3 or E5 licenses, and is available to you at no additional cost. So, if you have one of these licenses, and you’re not currently using Microsoft Teams, the question is, why not? ProServeIT's modern workplace experts can help you determine whether Teams is the right tool for your organization by reviewing your current tools in place and business needs.
Teamwork Assessment will help you to understand how to grow your business by fully utilizing the right technology that allows your teams to work together effectively and as a result, increase everyone’s productivity.
Microsoft Teams Adoption & Change Management Workshop will help you explore your options on how to drive successful change when implementing Microsoft Teams in your environment.
