Available Now! Conversational Teams & Teams for Managers Books

[Karuana Gatimu]

We are happy to announce the availability of two important books for expanding usage of Microsoft Teams.  In this digital age it's important to remember that many people like to have a physical guide for their new experience!  Both books are affordable and our Conversational Geek book is short and the perfect leave behind at internal events for the launch of Microsoft Teams.  Use them both to deliver 100 & 200 level training content to your people.  And yes, both are available in digital format.  Here's more about each text: 

Conversational Microsoft Teams

By Heather Severino & Karuana Gatimu

This easy to read text provides getting started guidance for anyone who is using Microsoft Teams and includes recommendations about team & channel setup, private channels and modern project management with Teams. We love working with the Conversational Geek publishers (thank you Nick!) who are dedicated to making interesting topics easy to read.  Check out their entire library including this book at the link above.   Per your request we are also excited to announce that you can order bulk copies for your organization at https://teams.conversationalgeek.com  

Adopt & Embrace Microsoft Teams

By Paul Woods, Helen Blunden, Benjamin Elias & Darrell Webster with forward by Karuana Gatimu

Managers, team leaders & executives need to build great teams and deliver results.  They can learn how to do this with the innovative framework propose by the Adopt & Embrace team.  Check out this text, written primarily for these people, that will lay out a checklist of actions to drive productivity and help take their skills to the next level.  Order physical copies (singles & in bulk) at the link above or get your Kindle digital version now.  

Here in product engineering we want to thank the people who spend countless hours bringing these books to life!  They are a credit to our community and you can find them all here or online.  Follow them for more information on this and other important productivity topics!   

[Jeffrey Allen]

@Karuana Gatimu, thanks I will take a look at these.  FYI, the link to the website for bulk copies doesn't work as it has two spaces at the end and they show up as %20 twice.

[Helen Blunden]

Thanks for sharing Karuana, I'd like to open the invitation up for others to share their thoughts on the book too.  It was a great opportunity to work with my fellow colleagues and USE Microsoft Teams to collaborate and create the book on Microsoft Teams WITHIN the platform itself.  It gave us an idea of the immense scope of collaborative activities that can all be done within it and a story to share with others.  The framework within the book is a way to approach your organisational teams to consider the 'why' and the 'how' of teamwork and then structure the design of the Teams and Channels around business problems.  I like to view it as a conversation starter to have business teams refocus their thinking and questions away from the tool itself initially and more on the problem they're trying to solve.  Everything starts there - the tool is flexible enough to customise around this.  

[Helen Blunden]

@Jeffrey Allen thanks for alerting us to this.  Try this link: https://teamsbook.info/ for bulk purchases.

[Helen Blunden]

Hello everyone, just would like to add that any purchases of this book from now until Australia Day (26 Jan 2020), proceeds will be going towards the Australian Bushfires which have devastated lives, communities and property.  I'm so glad that our company Adopt & Embrace, a B-Corporation is assisting in this small way to support those who need it most at this time of crisis in our country.  Thanks in advance.  

[Mark Dixon]

Just received my copy - very useful resource!

[MarkT8155]

The link for "Conversational Microsoft Teams" does not work.  Additionally, how can we purchase the two books in digital format?