The document outlines various tools and strategies to enhance productivity and communication for remote teams, including collaboration apps like SurveyMonkey, AgilePolly, Freehand, and Zoho Projects. It emphasizes the importance of employee recognition, decision-making, and effective meeting management through tools like Karma and Soapbox. Additionally, it highlights methods to keep distributed workforces informed using crisis communication and dynamic signal technologies.

1. Enabling remote workers to achieve more
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2. Keep your team informed and productive
• Run surveys to gauge team morale or get fast feedback
• Run daily standups in an easy and effective way
• Brainstorm creative ideas together
• Collaborate with your team to plan and assign tasks quickly
Continue driving team culture
• Enable employees to recognize peers
• Be inclusive and make better decisions
Embrace online meetings
• Make meeting prep quick and easy
For IT Admins:
Enable critical org-wide communications
• Keep your distributed workforce well informed
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3. Keep your team informed and productive
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4. Run surveys to gauge team morale or get fast feedback
Foster a culture of collaboration and faster decision making through polls—with SurveyMonkey for Teams
 Seamlessly create surveys, polls and quizzes with
multiple question types right within Teams.
 SurveyMonkey allows you to amplify voices of
your team members and drive better decisions
and actions based on direct feedback while
enjoying enterprise-grade security.
Add SurveyMonkey to Teams
User guide | App page
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5. Run daily standups in an easy and effective way
Get your team to share their status, daily summary, team insights, and participation with AgilePolly for Teams
 Automate standups and check-ins, enabling team
members to be more effective by sharing their
status updates.
 Author, deliver, automate and run asynchronous
daily status meetings, weekly retrospectives, and
one-on-one check-ins while staying up-to-date
with real-time progress..
Add AgilePolly to Teams
User guide | App page
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6. Brainstorm creative ideas together
Draw, plan, and collaborate with your team on an infinite whiteboard—in real time—with Freehand for Teams
 Team up through a personalized chat, to share
links and collaborate creatively with teammates
right inside Teams.
 Add Freehand by InVision as a tab in a channel or
group chat to co-draw, wireframe, plan, and
present all in one place.
 Map out the ideal user experience and iterate
easily to collaborate quickly on any screen design
within Teams.
Add Freehand by InVision to Teams
User guide | App page
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7. Collaborate with your team to plan and assign tasks quickly
Create and manage projects effectively with the collaborative Zoho Projects for Teams
 Notify team members about important tasks and
updates—facilitate work, take quick actions without
leaving Teams.
 Add Zoho Projects tab to your channel and set task
status and priority to track team progress.
 Create, edit, assign tasks, and add comments/
replies quickly with bot commands.
Add Zoho Projects to Teams
User guide | App page
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8. Continue driving team culture
Enable employees to recognize
peers
Be inclusive and make better
decisions
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9. Enable employees to recognize peers
Record small encouragements and “thank yous” that normally aren’t verbalized—with Karma forTeams
 Karma encourages everyone to work better and deliver
faster.
 Karmabot builds user profiles and provides team leaders
with actionable HR insights, introducing a healthy
competition that fosters effectiveness.
 Karmabot comes with a dashboard that helps team
leaders stay on top of team activity and visualize team
stats.
Add Karma toTeams
User guide | App page
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10. Be inclusive and make better decisions
Make faster and better decisions together, by capturing real voices with Ment.io forTeams
 Add the Ment.io tab to your team channel or
group chat to see the bottom line in a larger
discussion, and top answers based on a team’s
opinions and knowledge.
 Get instant notifications on discussions initiated
and responses received in a channel, to stay on
top of important topics
 View analyzed team inputs in detail and get
actionable insights for decision-making.
Add Ment.io toTeams
User guide | App page
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11. Embrace online
meetings
Make meeting prep quick and easy
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12. Make meeting prep quick and easy
Build collaborative meeting agendas and stay on top of action items easily with SoapBox for Teams
 Build your agenda naturally and collaboratively
by adding agenda items when they pop up in
conversation. Simply switch to the SoapBox tab
and add to your team meeting agenda.
 Receive notifications any time a team member
contributes to your meeting agenda, an item is
closed, or there’s an upcoming meeting you need
to prepare for.
Add SoapBox to Teams
User guide | App page
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13. For IT Admins:
Enable critical org-wide communications
• Keep your distributed workforce well informed

14. Keep your distributed workforce well informed - 1
Deliver critical news news and information to your organization with Crisis Communication for Teams
 Employees can report their work status and make
requests to coordinate across teams, to help central
response teams track status across an organization.
 Admins can use the app to push news, updates, and
content, and provide emergency contacts specific to
different locations.
 Feeds can be added of up-to-date information from
reputable sources such as the WHO, CDC, or a local
authority.
Add Crisis Communication to Teams
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15. Keep your distributed workforce well informed - 2
Deliver personalized communications to every employee, across channels—with Dynamic Signal for Teams
 Single platform delivering trusted info to get direct
access on latest company news right inside Microsoft
Teams.
 Modern experience for keeping your employees well
informed during the time of crisis or emergencies.
 Increase employee engagement as companies thrive
and win when all their workers feel informed, aligned
and supported.
Add Dynamic Signal to Teams
User guide | App page
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