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Adopt & Embrace Microsoft Teams: A manager's guide to communication, collaboration and coordination with Microsoft Teams
You don't need to spend your day stuck in email, or endless meetings!
Set your team up for success with practical guidance designed specifically for Executives, Managers and Team Leaders who want to achieve more, using Microsoft Teams. Embrace new work practices. Improve business processes. Unlock real business value.
...and get your lunch break back!
At Adopt & Embrace, we know how hard it can be to manage your team in an increasingly connected and distributed world. After working with 100s of organisations and hundreds of thousands of people to create a positive impact with Office 365, and being awarded as Microsoft's Global Partner of the Year in 2018 for Teamwork... our Adopt & Embrace tean have captured our lessons learned... our secret sauce for sustainable, long term success with Microsoft Teams.
Reading Adopt & Embrace Microsoft Teams will empower you to structure how your team communicates, collaborates, and coordinates in a way that will help you achieve your professional, and personal goals.
Practical guidance that will help you use Microsoft Teams to:
Improve your situational awareness Reduce the overwhelm of your inbox Empower your team to do more
Break free of mundane management and create better way of working for your people. And get out of the office on time!
"This book is THE authoritive resource for managers looking to achieve their business outcomes using Microsoft Teams" -- Eoin Connors
"This book is such a massive step towards helping business people thing differently about working (enabled by Microsoft Teams). A world away from the "which tool when" guide that is often the default for working out when to use Teams" -- Joanna Teirney
Set your team up for success with practical guidance designed specifically for Executives, Managers and Team Leaders who want to achieve more, using Microsoft Teams. Embrace new work practices. Improve business processes. Unlock real business value.
...and get your lunch break back!
At Adopt & Embrace, we know how hard it can be to manage your team in an increasingly connected and distributed world. After working with 100s of organisations and hundreds of thousands of people to create a positive impact with Office 365, and being awarded as Microsoft's Global Partner of the Year in 2018 for Teamwork... our Adopt & Embrace tean have captured our lessons learned... our secret sauce for sustainable, long term success with Microsoft Teams.
Reading Adopt & Embrace Microsoft Teams will empower you to structure how your team communicates, collaborates, and coordinates in a way that will help you achieve your professional, and personal goals.
Practical guidance that will help you use Microsoft Teams to:
Improve your situational awareness Reduce the overwhelm of your inbox Empower your team to do more
Break free of mundane management and create better way of working for your people. And get out of the office on time!
"This book is THE authoritive resource for managers looking to achieve their business outcomes using Microsoft Teams" -- Eoin Connors
"This book is such a massive step towards helping business people thing differently about working (enabled by Microsoft Teams). A world away from the "which tool when" guide that is often the default for working out when to use Teams" -- Joanna Teirney
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272 pages, Paperback
Published November 30, 2019
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January 9, 2020
Crazy busy conference times are over until early 2020, so why not reading „hot of the press“ Microsoft Teams Book by Microsoft`s Global Partner of the Year Adopt & Embrace? It is a manager’s guide to communication, collaboration and coordination with Microsoft Teams and written by most team members like Helen Blunden, Paul Woods, Ben Elias and „DarrellAsAService“ Webster. You might also want to check out their dedicated book website before I am sharing with you my personal highlights.
First impression always matter as you know: this book is very well structured with compelling chapter names. That`s one of the main reasons I have purchased it (but I also really enjoy reading books from people and friends I know like these Microsoft MVP buddies).
1st part of the book starts with „Getting to know Microsoft Teams“ and delivers insights why this solution might help you in communication, collaboration and coordination. So it is use case focused and not structured by technical features or architecture.
2nd part is sharing deep insights into Adopt & Embrace`s leading methodology they are using while offering their consulting services: 10Ps – the heart of the book. Find my comments beneath the name of each chapter.
Problem: start your journey with a problem and don´t mix too many problems into one team.
Purpose: use shared purposeful team names instead of cloning your org structure in Microsoft Teams.
People: they need common ground and vested interest to work in this project. Again: don`t copy org chart members into Teams membership. Helpful recommendations shared around private channels, permissions and security.
Priorities: interesting approach to structure priorities into channel names using prefixes and don`t overwhelm a team with too many priorities. Rather considering splitting into multiple teams
Principles: decisions are made how to communicate and collaborate – also how to solve concerns. How to use the general channel.
Plugins: use tabs as bookmarks. Think about all other Ps when adding Plugins
Permissions: think about permissions of external guests. Make sure to have more than one moderator, they should know their responsibilities.
Performance: identify gaps and discuss performance outcomes
Provisioning: how do provisioning processes look like in your org? Discuss design of Teams structure first before automating
Perishability: Capture lessons learned and celebrate the end – don`t forget archiving
3rd and last part is all about patterns from the real world with focus on experts community of practice, onboarding, conference planning , sales and board meetings, customer service and 1:1s
First impression always matter as you know: this book is very well structured with compelling chapter names. That`s one of the main reasons I have purchased it (but I also really enjoy reading books from people and friends I know like these Microsoft MVP buddies).
1st part of the book starts with „Getting to know Microsoft Teams“ and delivers insights why this solution might help you in communication, collaboration and coordination. So it is use case focused and not structured by technical features or architecture.
2nd part is sharing deep insights into Adopt & Embrace`s leading methodology they are using while offering their consulting services: 10Ps – the heart of the book. Find my comments beneath the name of each chapter.
Problem: start your journey with a problem and don´t mix too many problems into one team.
Purpose: use shared purposeful team names instead of cloning your org structure in Microsoft Teams.
People: they need common ground and vested interest to work in this project. Again: don`t copy org chart members into Teams membership. Helpful recommendations shared around private channels, permissions and security.
Priorities: interesting approach to structure priorities into channel names using prefixes and don`t overwhelm a team with too many priorities. Rather considering splitting into multiple teams
Principles: decisions are made how to communicate and collaborate – also how to solve concerns. How to use the general channel.
Plugins: use tabs as bookmarks. Think about all other Ps when adding Plugins
Permissions: think about permissions of external guests. Make sure to have more than one moderator, they should know their responsibilities.
Performance: identify gaps and discuss performance outcomes
Provisioning: how do provisioning processes look like in your org? Discuss design of Teams structure first before automating
Perishability: Capture lessons learned and celebrate the end – don`t forget archiving
3rd and last part is all about patterns from the real world with focus on experts community of practice, onboarding, conference planning , sales and board meetings, customer service and 1:1s
November 21, 2019
This unique book helped me understand the why and how to use Teams, rather than what it can do (just because you can, doesn't mean you should). It walks you through the steps (10Ps) of proven methodology, to create and use your own successful Team environment. It focuses on leveraging this technology for streamlining your team’s ability to get work done. It doesn't matter if you are just starting down this journey, feel you have lost control, or think you have everything under control, this book will provide you with some great insights from people that have vast experience in deploying Teams many different industries. They have seen what works and what doesn't, and cleverly articulated it into this book. If you want to get the most out of your team, whilst instilling best practice and governance, then this book is a must-read.
October 22, 2021
A good guide to how to set up Teams teams. The book introduces "10 P's" to consider when you want to set up new teams to enhance or change your collaboration.
To someone who's very much baffled by what actually is Teams and how will be it change my work for the better, I'm still a little lost of the value of this new system. The book gives ideas but reflecting back on the services I provide to the organisation and how Teams could enhance the value, the light bulb moment is yet to come. Throughout the book, it's evident that the authors presume a level of comfort with and keenness to adopt the system.
If you are already jumping on the bandwagon and looking to set up a plethora of Teams teams, this book a essential. Those of us way behind might be better served first by a book which focuses more on the value, use cases and reflection on Teams.
To someone who's very much baffled by what actually is Teams and how will be it change my work for the better, I'm still a little lost of the value of this new system. The book gives ideas but reflecting back on the services I provide to the organisation and how Teams could enhance the value, the light bulb moment is yet to come. Throughout the book, it's evident that the authors presume a level of comfort with and keenness to adopt the system.
If you are already jumping on the bandwagon and looking to set up a plethora of Teams teams, this book a essential. Those of us way behind might be better served first by a book which focuses more on the value, use cases and reflection on Teams.
September 1, 2020
Useful, practical, engaging
Great resource for getting the most out of Teams, including great advice on planning and execution. And they tackle the hardest part - getting your coworkers to embrace it.
Great resource for getting the most out of Teams, including great advice on planning and execution. And they tackle the hardest part - getting your coworkers to embrace it.
April 24, 2020
Very basic
It is good for a person never used teams beforehand.
If you have experience with teams it is not good for you.
It is good for a person never used teams beforehand.
If you have experience with teams it is not good for you.
September 30, 2020
Good explanations. Makes me want to give it a try.
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November 7, 2020Wonderful practical advice from some of the most knowledgeable people on the planet on this topic. Thank you!
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