Microsoft Teams For Dummies

Chapter 18

Ten Tips for Better Teams Meetings

IN THIS CHAPTER

Discovering how to make Teams meetings more organized

Chatting, taking notes, and using a whiteboard

Sharing your screen and taking control of others’ screens

Finding out how to capture and retain notes from a meeting

We all have our fair share of meetings. It seems that there isn’t a day that goes by when I don’t have at least one meeting, and usually many meetings, to attend. I have even been in meetings that were designed to plan for future meetings.

Meetings come in all shapes and sizes with the only constant being that they fill up our schedule. With so many meetings on our plates, it is important to be as efficient as possible in organizing, scheduling, and conducting a meeting. Fortunately, Microsoft Teams includes several features that are particularly useful for meeting efficiency. In this chapter, I share my top ten tips for conducting better meetings in Teams.

Chatting During a Meeting

The most common activity I do in Microsoft Teams is chat with other people. And I find it especially helpful to be able to ...