Maintaining and optimising productivity in today’s ever-evolving workforce is easier said than done. While ensuring high performance levels among your team members has always been complicated, the process has grown increasingly difficult in a world of remote and hybrid work. 

Fortunately, tools like Microsoft Teams are on-hand to help align and rejuvenate staff. With Microsoft Teams, companies can efficiently synergise over synchronised calendars, regular video meetings, and chat. Microsoft Teams even integrates naturally with business leaders’ productivity tools, from Microsoft Excel to PowerPoint. 

As distributed teams continue to rely on a broader range of tools to stay productive in a digital world, Microsoft allows companies to implement third-party apps for productivity into their Teams ecosystem. Here are some of the top Microsoft Teams productivity apps to consider in 2022.

This list is in no particular order.

  1. Trello

Easily one of the top tools for improving workflows in any business landscape, Trello is a leading project management software with exceptional ease of use. Designed to integrate seamlessly into your Microsoft Teams environment, Trello can help you keep employees on the right track wherever they are, with support for everything from task assignments to calendar tracking.

Trello helps companies gain more control over their workflows by allowing users to organize tasks into “cards” which they can then assign to individual staff members, each with their due dates. Microsoft even will enable you to add Trello as a tab within Microsoft Teams so that staff members can check their to-do lists in seconds.

Features include:

  • Project assignments and tracking
  • Deadlines and calendar integration
  • File syncing
  • Notifications and reminders

  1. MURAL

Sometimes, productivity in your team can suffer when employees don’t have suitable systems in place for collaboration. For staff who prefer to work with visual assets, MURAL could be the perfect app. The solution integrates with Teams, Office, and Outlook, to provide whiteboarding functionality and online sketching for teams. 

Employees can use MURAL to draw ideas and create new concepts using sketching functionality. You can collaborate in real-time during a video meeting or implement a MURAL tab into any channel or chat within Teams. There’s also the option to add MURAL whiteboards to your meeting invitations if you need to collaborate on an agenda.

Features include:

  • Teams, Outlook and Office integration
  • Custom tab or personal app integration
  • Notifications bot for regular updates
  • Messaging extension option
  • Meeting invitation integration

  1. Decisions

While meetings can be an essential part of any business landscape, they can also drain productivity and focus when not adequately planned or managed. Decisions is one of the leading Microsoft-awarded applications on the market today, making it easier to make the most out of your scheduled interactions.

Users can leverage Decisions to build agendas with pre-set templates or create their meeting agendas from scratch. You can collect meeting minutes and transcribe conversations in seconds, and even align the “decisions” or action points from each meeting with your To-Do list or Microsoft Planner app. 

Features include: 

  • Meeting agenda builder with custom templates
  • One-click meeting minutes for Word and OneNote
  • Time tracking 
  • Secure voting and polls
  • Decision syncing for To Do and Planner

  1. ScrumGenius 

Another excellent pick among the top Microsoft Teams Productivity Apps, ScrumGenius, is a simple solution for leading and supporting agile teams. This app can automate team status meetings by running automatic check-ins and stand-ups among hybrid and remote staff. This makes it easier for managers and supervisors to track employees’ progress, goals, and performance. 

ScrumGenius integrates with third-party tools like GitHub and JIRA, too, so you can see your team’s activity alongside their status updates. Rather than conducting daily meetings, you can keep track of what’s happening in your group without wasting resources.

Features include:

  • Automatic check-ins and stand-ups
  • Status update and goal tracking
  • Team blocker detection
  • Integrations with third-party tools
  • Live broadcast updates to your channel

  1. Klaxoon

Klaxoon is an interesting workshop platform built specifically to increase the productivity levels of all kinds of teams. With Klaxoon, you can run efficient and practical training sessions and workshops to make your employees more confident and informed in your roles. 

The technology comes equipped with over 160 ready-to-use templates adapted to various contexts. You can get everyone on board with unique collaboration tools intended to boost participation rates. Plus, there are features like an online whiteboard for sharing visual ideas and instant chatting during workshops. There’s even access to quizzes and surveys.

Features include:

  • Quiz and survey tools to collect feedback.
  • Whiteboarding functionality for creative collaboration
  • Real-time chat and video conversations
  • More than 160 templates for training
  • Trackable workshops

  1. Perfect Wiki

Part of ensuring teams stay productive is ensuring they have access to the correct information. Perfect Wiki is an intuitive wiki solution within Microsoft Teams that allows users to organise their team’s knowledge and provide everyone with access to crucial data in one place. The solution makes it easy to export and upload information so that everyone can access documents instantly.

Using your wiki, you can store keynotes and procedures for your team members to check out whenever they need guidance with a task. The less time your team spends looking for information, the more productive they become.

Features include:

  • Customisable editing rights 
  • Full text search
  • Full integration with Microsoft Teams
  • Seamless universal data export

  1. Todoist

One of the better-known to-do list tools on the market today, Todoist is a simple and effective way to help your employees keep track of the things they need to get done. The app for Microsoft Teams allows users to capture and organise tasks as soon as they arrive in their chat inbox and keep track of upcoming deadlines. 

You can also use your Todoist application to assign tasks to other people when you need to delegate or prioritise tasks using priorities. You can also track your progress with productivity trend reports through Todoist too. 

Features include:

  • Productivity trend analytics
  • Project collaboration with task assignments
  • Deadlines and due date announcements
  • Recurring due dates

 



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