Become a Great Team with MS Teams and Team Building
What You'll Learn in Become a Great Team with MS Teams and Team Building
Course Length
Learning Objectives
- Identify team social styles and motivators
- Build teamwork skills and collaboration
- Promote trust and rapport by cultivating team building activities
- Enhance your team’s capabilities towards achieving objectives
- Develop strategies for facilitating team dynamics
- Use Microsoft Teams to provide a collaborative, cloud-based workspace
- Create and manage channels to allow users to talk to each other and share information and files
- Set your meetings up for success by sharing content effectively, using the whiteboard, and recording transcripts and meeting notes
Target Student
This series is for team members and leaders who want to develop their team collaboration and communication skills through MS Teams and team building exercises. If you would like to build successful and collaborative teams, this is the course for you. Build a high-functioning team that will achieve its goals and work well together.
Course Outline
This is an interactive course. Participants will be encouraged to engage and practice.
Section 1: Building and Leading Teams Overview
Characteristics of Great Teams
Every Team Needs a Purpose
Stages of Team Development
Section 2: Collaboration
Slide Master View
Setting Ground Rules and Expectations
How to Maintain Mutual Respect
Communicating Using Emotional Intelligence
Section 3: Brainstorming and More Team Building Activities
Using the Six Thinking Hats
How to Work SMART
Bring in the Humans
Section 4: The Best Ways to Communicate
Understand Social Styles
What Motivates Us
Giving and Receiving Feedback
Section 5: Facilitate Team Dynamics
Encouraging Communication
Dealing with Different Perspectives
Section 6: Creating Teams and Channels to Focus Your Content
Creating and Managing a Team
Creating and Managing Channels
Working with Private Channels
Having Conversations
Broadcasting Information
Sending an Email to Teams
Section 7: Getting Someone’s Attention on Microsoft Teams
Teams Notifications
Creating Mentions
Creating Group Tags
Section 8: Finding and Sharing Documents
Uploading Files to Channels
Understanding How SharePoint and OneDrive Integrate with Teams
Creating Folders
Understanding How Files Work in Private Channels
Searching for Files
Section 9: Collaborating During Meetings
Sharing Your Window/Screen
Understanding PowerPoint Live
Using the White Board
Recording and Transcribing Your Meetings
Taking Meeting Notes
Section 10: Adding Apps and Tabs to Your Channels
Adding Tasks by Planner and To Do
Adding Documents as Tabs
Adding Websites to Your Channels
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Become a Great Team with MS Teams and Team Building
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