Wednesday, 6 July 2022

Florida State University reimagines student learning with Microsoft Teams

When the 2020 pandemic hit, Florida State University (FSU), was already transforming student engagement through technology with an initiative focusing on the idea that virtual technology can personalize education and unlock student potential. FSU began using Microsoft Teams for remote engagement and asynchronous collaboration, eliminating the struggle when the lockdown occurred, and everyone transitioned to working and studying remotely. Just take it from Sean Brown, the initiatives’ Chief Strategist, who says: “…every educator would be surprised at how much they can do—and how easily—if they took the time to investigate the resources that are available to them inside the Microsoft digital transformation suite and inside Teams.” Watch this customer success video and learn more about how more universities are incorporating technology to create a more inclusive, personalized educational strategy.

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Tuesday, 5 July 2022

Building a flexible and adaptive modern workplace

Hybrid work is here to stay, and businesses must have reliable and secure tools to remain competitive. Microsoft Teams makes it easier for people to work and collaborate and for businesses to successfully adapt to a new way of working. Discover a dynamic, secure platform that allows teams to connect and interact with each other no matter where they are, allowing for flexible and inclusive hybrid work. With Microsoft Teams, you can empower your team from anywhere on the globe. Sign up to stay connected. We’ll help you learn more about using Microsoft Teams.

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Thursday, 30 June 2022

5 New Rules for Leading a Hybrid Team

Hybrid work is here to stay. What does it mean for organizational leaders navigating the shift? How do they accommodate people’s needs meanwhile maintaining a culture of excellence? Turns out, the fundamentals of what transforms a group of people into an outstanding team haven’t changed much over time. Learn what the former senior vice president of people operations at Google Laszlo Block writes in this article about organizational culture for The Harvard Business Review. The author of the 2015 book Work Rules! uses his guidelines for how to combine data analysis, academic rigor, and human resources best practices to create a world-class company culture to outline 5 ways leaders can build great teams—even when those teams aren’t together in-person all the time.

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Hybrid Meetings - Microsoft Teams Rooms

Microsoft Teams is innovating for the workplace. You can now bring Microsoft Teams to any meeting space to help everyone feel closer and more engaged so they can collaborate fully. In this infographic, learn about how you can create a natural and immersive experience with Front Row—a new layout in Microsoft Teams Rooms that enables in-room participants to see remote colleagues face to face across a horizontal plane as if they were in the same room. Learn about how to use live reactions and how you can identify and differentiate the voices of up to 10 people talking in a Microsoft Teams Room. Sign up to stay connected. We’ll help you understand how Teams Rooms can work in various spaces.

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Tuesday, 28 June 2022

Hybrid Meetings - Microsoft Teams Rooms

Microsoft Teams is innovating for the workplace. You can now bring Microsoft Teams to any meeting space to help everyone feel closer and more engaged so they can collaborate fully. In this infographic, learn about how you can create a natural and immersive experience with Front Row—a new layout in Microsoft Teams Rooms that enables in-room participants to see remote colleagues face to face across a horizontal plane as if they were in the same room. Learn about how to use live reactions and how you can identify and differentiate the voices of up to 10 people talking in a Microsoft Teams Room. Sign up to stay connected. We’ll help you understand how Teams Rooms can work in various spaces.

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Thursday, 23 June 2022

The Total Economic Impact of Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams is the tool that companies relied on when the pandemic forced them to quickly switch to hybrid work, allowing them to innovate despite the challenges. This research provides a framework for assessing the potential impact of Microsoft Teams on businesses. Learn how customers saw increased adoption to the tool, enabling them to shift more of the enterprise to Teams for collaboration and communication. The result was increased productivity for a larger number of employees, improved productivity benefits from new automation functionality, and cost savings associated with the transition to a single communication and collaboration tool. Sign up and download the e-book to learn about the economic impact of Microsoft Teams.

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Wednesday, 22 June 2022

HUS: sharing data securely to make life-saving

HUS is Finland’s largest healthcare provider and one of Europe’s leading healthcare organizations, bringing together 23 different hospitals and treating more than 680,000 patients a year. With Microsoft cloud services and Microsoft 365 tools already in place across HUS, a Microsoft Teams trial was introduced in 2020 to help improve communication and allow medical staff to easily share sensitive information—like imaging scans— between clinicians. Resident HUS Neurosurgeon Anselmi Kovalainen explains how since the onset of COVID-19, daily radiology meetings are now in a hybrid format, where the physical meeting still takes place, but people can join remotely through Teams. Watch this customer success video and learn about how, with Teams, staff have a secure platform to collaborate both inside the hospital and remotely for any self-isolating colleagues.

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