Follow these steps to create your own team.

Step 1: Choose your team members.

Make a list of the names of people you want to be part of your team and think of what you are going to work on. The name can be a goal the team wants to reach or a description of the team. Keep the name short and simple yet descriptive.

Translate the idea from paper to MS Teams

The person creating the Team is the team owner. A team of people is a private group in Teams speak. So they need to ask your permission before they can join. And the team owner must add members and a deputy as owner.

Step 2: Create a team

You can select an existing team to work on or create a new team. A teams can be divided even more if the same poeple work on different categories of the same ting.

Step 3: Build the frame of the team

A pop-up will ask you what you want next, to keep my team uncluttered I am choosing “Build a team from scratch”.

Step 4: Protect or not?

You can now choose if you want a private or public team. I am choosing “Private” because I only want to add my team members. Lastly enter the name of your team.

Step 5: Name the team

Remember that name we talked about, Keep the name short and simple yet descriptive. I am naming my team after the goal I want to achieve.

Step 6: Create the team finally

Then to finalise all the details, just click on Create.