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How can I effectively avoid MS Teams chats for major information exchanges and rely on email exclusively?

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How can I effectively avoid MS Teams chats for major information exchanges and rely on email exclusively?

I prefer email correspondence. Many at my company seemingly prefer MS Teams. For me Teams should be reserved for urgent situations, and voice calls with a shared screen, not robust correspondence.

Or am I being too old school?

Lol, I would embrace paper memos and letters!

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  1. Anonymous

    I kinda think you may be a bit old school. I myself am slowly learning to embrace it more and more and how we can best use it.

  2. Gilda Spencer

    Just in time communication is the normal now... Slack or MS Teams. You can ask people to email you for major info, as your preference, but you may need to find a way to embrace/work with MS Teams that works for you (it can be very noisy!)

  3. Anonymous

    I would embrace any new software to communicate. TEAMs is a collaborative software that allows many uses. One is via video chat, via messaging, via shared documents, and even what we use is a shared and live document (spreadsheet) that everyone can use. We embraced the change about 7 years ago though I understand some environments only started using Zoom/TEAMs, etc. during Covid. Thankfully we were ahead of the curve. I would ask team mates their preference. I prefer Zoom for video chatting as I find TEAMs is noisey, and not as user friendly as Zoom, but if I get a TEAMs call, I take it. It's really a matter of what orgs use and really comes down to how your team wants to communicate. You can always offer, if you need changes, or have suggestions please email it to me so I have a reference of it. I do find email to be cumbersome but it also provides documented work (as I have tons of files and can always pull data when needed or info for my director). Hope that helps some!

  4. Maggie Soldano

    Try using an ai transcriber like Otter to capture and summarize any verbal conversations. (Your MS Teams may already have one.) I keep the otter app on my phone and have it make notes on all my meetings. Keeps me focused on the discussion.

  5. Halex Utrex
    I agree that email is useful for important information because it keeps communication organized and easy to reference. Teams is also helpful for quick discussions and urgent updates. For Movilnet users looking for mobile balance information, visit the website https://saldo-movilnet.com/.

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