OPTIMIZING ONBOARDING AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT WITH MICROSOFT TEAMS

Optimizing Onboarding and Professional Development with Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams is an all-in-one platform for work that makes scheduling formal training, as well as more impromptu professional development inside the company simple. As recruitment and onboarding increasingly move online, Teams also provides the digital boardroom to meet with prospects from outside the company.

Key features that assist in training and onboarding

Data labeling

Training is often on sensitive material, and information in Teams can be flagged as sensitive to keep it private and secure, accessible only to members and permitted guests.

Everyone Presents

The opposite of most platforms, the default in Teams meetings is for everyone to have presentation capabilities, a great benefit in training.

Ongoing Alerts

Members can be notified whenever a particular folder or file is updated to stay organized and have the latest information and policies.

Company-wide Communications

By creating an organization-wide channel, HR can easily keep all employees up to speed on policy and process changes.

Poll Creation

Get feedback from teams or company-wide, to fully understand how changes and training affect employees, what is working and where there may be gaps.

The features of Microsoft Teams are extensive, and the platform is always changing as Microsoft innovates and improves on it. To maximize the effectiveness of your Teams' adoption, it's a good idea to have a user oversee the platform. Look for an adoption champion, a team member that's excited about the platform and who can become an advocate. They would be responsible for creating processes, access rights, syntax and naming of channels and workflows.