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Chris Blackstone
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Oct 07, 2019

Classroom-based, instructor-led Microsoft Teams for large and dispersed companies

We're working to roll out Microsoft Teams across 7k "knowledge workers" in 30+ locations. There has been some discussion about classroom-based, instructor-training, but we're not a point yet where we...
  • Chris Blackstone highly recommend a Champions network, built from multiple business units, across all regions, and strong visible leadership support. Microsoft did not have the training we needed, so we have a small in-house adoption team. We got them going with the hands-on training and AMA sessions, built the knowledge, developed use cases per area based on their feedback, and then did a full roll out. We had a learning hub for information which links back to the specific apps which plug into Teams. Teams is intuitive for a jump start, and then you need to Level Up - focus on your use cases and how you can help people solve specific issues, or template things. Depending on your demographic, gamification + swag has worked well.

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