What you need for this course

- [Instructor] The need for software to support collaboration has never been greater. And Microsoft has a number of different tools that are used for collaboration. Microsoft Teams is one of the newer tools. Outlook has been around since 1997 and is well established. People also collaborate using SharePoint or using the new Yammer, recently upgraded. And some of you may have been collaborating in Skype for Business. As a matter of fact, that might be how you ended up in Teams. You were a Skype for Business user, and now your organization has been moved to Teams. This course focuses on Microsoft Teams and Outlook, and it is most useful for people who work or plan to work in organizations that use both Teams and Outlook. This is a growing number of organizations around the world. So this is your course if you use Teams or if you have used Skype for Business, if you're looking for a collaboration up-skill or if you're simply curious about how communication and collaboration are changing in organizations. To work along with me, you will need Outlook. I will be using Outlook for the desktop in Windows, but you could also use Outlook on the web. You will also need Microsoft Teams and you'll need to be a member of one or more Teams. And it also helps if your team has a few other members. If your organization doesn't use Teams right now, or if you're not working for an organization, you can enroll in a free trial of Office 365 for Business, and it will include Outlook and Teams. And invite a couple of friends along who'd also liked to learn. This is not a complete course on either Teams or Outlook. Far from it. This is a course on the intersection of these products and how they're used in business today. So if you'd like to know more about Outlook or Teams, I have some resources I can recommend. Outlook Essential Training is the soup-to-nuts course on Microsoft Outlook. If you're using Outlook on the web, a similar course is Outlook on the web Essential Training. Microsoft Teams Essential Training is the equivalent for Microsoft Teams. All of these courses will give you a great foundation in these products. If you'd simply like a brush up and you've been working in Outlook and or Teams, then take a look at Outlook Tips and Tricks or Microsoft Teams Tips and Tricks. You will find all of these courses and more courses on both Outlook and Teams in the LinkedIn learning library.