Microsoft Viva is a new employee experience platform that has been recently launched by Microsoft. Viva is split into 4 pillars which are 4 different tools that can be used via Microsoft Teams. Some parts of Viva come included with Microsoft 365 licensing and some require additional licensing costs. The 4 pillars are: Viva Connections …
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In Microsoft Teams we can use Tasks (previously known as Planner) to help manage our tasks when working on a project. Within each Team, and within each Channel, we can add a Task tab and create task lists, assign them to our team members and keep track of late or upcoming tasks. The only downside …
Microsoft Teams will send notifications in different ways and for different types of updates. Notifications can come through as an email, a purple notification box on your desktop, or as red notification in your chat or activity tabs within Teams itself. Teams will send notifications when someone replies or likes your message, @mentions the team …
When you create a meeting in Microsoft Teams, you can now change your meeting settings to allow participants to bypass the lobby, turn off meeting chat and prevent participants from presenting. This can be useful when running a formal presentation or training and you need to manage what your participants can and can’t do. Once …
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Tags in Microsoft Teams allows you to quickly and easily notify a group of people within a Team without notifying everyone in the Team using @mentions. A good example of this is if you had a Project Team, and within that Project Team you had 5 Project Managers, 6 consultants and a few managers and …
Microsoft have introduced Breakout Rooms to Microsoft Teams; a highly requested feature. Breakout rooms are used to split your meeting into separate rooms so a smaller group of participants can discuss/work in private. Breakout rooms can be useful when conducting training, running a workshop or for any type of group work. It is important to …
1. Rename your group chats Group chats are a great way to work with a small group of colleagues on short term or one-off tasks. You can create a group chat by simply creating a new chat, and typing in the names of your colleagues. In a group chat, we can chat, share files and have …
Microsoft Teams is a collaboration and communication platform and is great for sharing updates and announcements with fellow teammates. In a Teams channel, I have the option to post messages so my team can see and reply to them. This is great if we are working on a project together or collaborating between our department. …
If you are using Teams for making and receiving calls, then you can create your own ring group right from within the Teams client. A call group allows you to share incoming calls with your colleagues. For example, if I am in a Sales team, I might want to set up a call group so …
When using Microsoft Teams as your communication platform, there may be a requirement to customise what your employees can and cannot do in a specific team and/or a specific channel. For example, if you have an organisation-wide team for Communication, and you might have channels underneath that team for CEO announcements, compliance updates and general …