Using Microsoft Teams: Tips, Tricks, & Best Practices

Microsoft Teams is one of the latest Office 365 tools to be released, and it is potentially the most important yet! Teams might just replace Skype, SharePoint and Outlook for your day-to-day usage. Understanding its capabilities, best practices, and integrations is critical to finding the right way for you - and your team at the office - to use this incredibly powerful tool. In this session, we will demonstrate how to use it for day-to-day communication, collaboration, and even calendar management.

Topics include:

• Using Teams as a Skype replacement in chat, calls, and video conferencing
• Creating channel-based conversations with your teams
• Collaborating on files within the Teams interface
• Embedding additional (even third-party) tools into Teams

Bonus Handout: Office 365 Collaboration Tools

Hot Tip: Use Shared OneNote Notebooks: Both in SharePoint and Teams, OneNote Notebooks are automatically created for every new site and every new team. By putting the team’s FAQ or knowledge base into this notebook, you guarantee that onboarding new team members will be much easier.

About Neil Malek: Neil Malek is the Principal at Knack Training, a software and professional development training and consulting company. For the last twenty years, Neil has worked with universities, governments, non-profits, and Fortune 100 companies to identify and close skill gaps.