Chapter 8

Taming the Noise and Staying Focused

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Reducing noise in Teams

Bullet Taking control of too many channels

Bullet Searching and filtering teams and channels

Bullet Making searching easier with hastags

When I work with organizations to adopt Microsoft Teams, I usually make the same observation: There seems to be a point when an organization goes from having a few people using Teams here and there, to everyone using Teams for all communication. When this happens, Teams becomes very noisy very fast! This is more evident as more and more people are doing work remotely and online these days. Luckily, some of the features of Teams have been designed specifically to help you get a handle on all this activity.

In this chapter, you find out how to use Teams to focus on the communication that matters to you and ignore the rest. More than ever, it is good to feel some control when even your conversations on Teams can be chaotic. You learn how to set the Activity feed to filter conversations and set up notifications for the topics important to you. I also share some of the tips I have learned ...

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