Anything inside Teams for people management you use and can recommend?

We’ve had good experiences using the built-in Teams features combined with Planner and Shifts for lightweight people management. For performance tracking and internal communication, Power Automate workflows inside Teams can also save a lot of manual follow-up work. It really depends on whether you need scheduling, engagement, or full HR-style management.

I honestly don't think there is a fully Microsoft solution to this. We were the same way for a long time with our goals inside Viva Goals, and reviews in Excel sheets, so on and so forth. After the Viva goals retirement, we looked for an OKR software replacement that would live inside Teams and ended up finding a more all-in-one solution called Teamflect (after someone on this very forum recommended it to me).

So far, we've had great success with it, digitizing the entire PMS. That being said I'm sure there are plenty of great tools like it in the app store. In fact, I've also heard good things about Perdoo, but we've never really had to check it out. I think your best bet is to find a PMS with strong Microsoft Teams integration.

Let me know if this recommendation helped and please mark it as a solution if so :)

For people management inside Teams, I’ve seen a lot of teams benefit from using Approvals, Planner integration, and Shifts depending on the workflow. Planner is especially useful for tracking tasks and accountability without leaving Teams. Viva Insights can also help managers monitor workload balance and meeting habits more effectively.

We ran into a very similar situation.

The problem wasn’t just having multiple tools — it’s that none of them are really connected to the day-to-day conversations in Teams.

Once goals, feedback, notes, and meetings live in separate places, people stop maintaining them consistently. We saw the same thing.

What helped was bringing more of that structure closer to where the actual conversations happen — otherwise it tends to fragment over time.