Like it or not, Microsoft Teams has taken the business world by storm. Pre pandemic Teams was gaining traction as a replacement for Skype & Slack. When the pandemic hit, almost all businesses with Office 365 switched to Microsoft teams for online collaboration.

With many of our clients now fully embedded with Teams, we thought it would be worthwhile sharing some compelling use cases that you may not even know are possible within MS Teams.

#1 Ditch WhatsApp for Teams

Ask any data security geek, and they'll tell you that all business data should be under lock and key, with the business able to control where the data is stored and who has access.

This brings up some scenarios, including the use of applications like WhatsApp. If you use this application to communicate with colleagues in the business about business affairs, you seriously need to consider migrating your instant message chats to Microsoft Teams.

Not only will your data be secure, but it will be under the business control, so if an employee should leave the organisation, they're not going to walk out with all that business data in their WhatsApp account.

Microsoft Teams has a fully functioning chat capability on Android and IOS, which is worth checking out.

#2 A Members Portal

Does your business interact with associations or run a membership? Microsoft Teams allows you to create public teams, which you can open up to anyone with an email.

Within this feature, there are many possibilities on what exactly you can do in a public team. Some of the best use cases we've seen to date include a membership body that houses a member portal including content resources, a SharePoint news section and even a PowerBI dashboard for members to interact with.

The members portal drives engagement within the membership, and since the pandemic, they've entirely stopped issuing member information by mail. Instead, they can now publish directly into the appropriate membership Team.

#3 Delegate and Plan

Microsoft Teams includes many apps that you can add as a tab. One of the most loved that we often see in management roles is Microsoft planner.  This tool is part of Office 365 and is a cut-down version of Microsoft Project. You can quickly set up a plan and delegate tasks within the planner to team members. Managers love this feature, and tasks can be dealt with promptly and efficiently through Teams Chat.

If your business would like to find out more about getting the best from Microsoft Teams, don't hesitate to get in touch with us today.