Over the years, Microsoft Teams has grown to become a way of work for companies around the world. With further shifting work cultures, more and more organizations are reaching toward Microsoft Teams Premium with Copilot for Microsoft 365 to help teams. It supports staff in being more effective, keeping connected, and bridging time zone and language gaps.

Improving productivity with Intelligent Recap and Copilot in Teams

Microsoft Teams includes several AI-driven features to help you get caught up on "all the things." For example, the Meeting Recap feature is AI-driven and is already included in Teams Premium. If you miss a meeting, you can go to the "Recap" tab where meeting notes will be waiting for you, including recommended tasks and even highlights.

It allows to pay much more attention in the meeting, to focus on what’s being said and not worry about capturing notes and next steps.

Copilot in Teams is an AI-powered assistant that attends your meetings. Designed to enhance your productivity and collaboration, you can engage with it like a coworker, asking it questions.

Copilot is incredibly helpful when a meeting participant joins late, experiences connectivity issues, or has overlapping meetings. They can simply ask Copilot for a summary of what they missed, and it will highlight the most relevant information, allowing them to catch up quickly.

With Copilot in Teams, you can use various apps to enhance engagement during meetings. For instance, a manager can request feedback from their team through a pop-up form. Participants have the option to submit their feedback anonymously if they prefer.

Copilot in Whiteboard:

Another great app for meetings is Whiteboard. It allows participants to create sticky notes and drawings, facilitating collaboration on visual elements without disrupting the meeting flow. After the meeting, Copilot in Whiteboard can categorize and summarize the notes, locate specific items, and follow up on them.

Meeting employees where they are:

Chat in Microsoft Teams is an ideal setting for Copilot. Microsoft Digital reports that 98% of its Teams users do both synchronous and asynchronous collaboration via chat. The more end-users operate Copilot, the more features in Teams they start discovering.

Another valuable use of Copilot in Teams is for asynchronous collaboration.  

A team may be discussing something during work hours, and then their partner team in some other time zone can join the chat when their day starts. This really allows for a culture of working from anywhere, anytime for the employees.

Boosting communication with Copilot in Teams

This makes communication amongst distributed teams across different time zones and languages a continuous challenge. You can get your messages rewritten with Copilot, very useful for those who are not native English speakers, for clarity and effectiveness in communication, making collaboration smoother and wider.

Besides this, Copilot in Teams can help overcome language barriers. For example, it can assist users in improving their language skills, making communication more effective and inclusive for everyone involved.

Another Privacy Feature of Copilot in Teams: “Only During the Meeting”

This mode is developed at Microsoft Digital's request and ensures that Copilot is only active during the course of a meeting. Attendees are free to ask questions and even review some of the content they missed; when the meeting ends, Copilot forgets all this information.

The future of Copilot in Teams:

Forward-looking, the implementation of Copilot in Teams is far beyond increasing productivity; it actually provides people with extra time for creativity and releases them from repetitive tasks. Imagine what you can do for creative projects, critical thinking, and engaging in meaningful debates.

The future of work is here with Copilot in Microsoft Teams. By reducing repetitive tasks and enhancing communication, Copilot empowers teams to be more productive and creative. Whether it’s catching up on missed meetings, collaborating across time zones, or overcoming language barriers, Copilot is designed to make work more efficient and inclusive.

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