Microsoft Teams is more than just chat and video calls. It's a full collaboration hub. In this interactive, one-hour Professional Edge workshop, you'll learn how to structure your Teams environment for clarity, efficiency, and impact. From organizing channels to managing meetings and collaborating on files, this session will help you unlock the features that make Teams a powerful productivity tool.

This isn't about sending emojis or starting a call. It's about building a digital workspace that actually works.

• Team and channel structure best practices: Learn how to organize Teams by project, department, or function, and use private and shared channels effectively to keep communication focused.  
• Smarter communication tools: Master @mentions, tags, message formatting, pinning and saving messages, and managing your activity feed to stay on top of what matters.  
• File collaboration made easy: Understand the difference between sharing via OneDrive vs. Teams, coauthor documents in real time, and use version history to recover changes.  
• Meetings and webinars: Get comfortable scheduling and joining meetings, using chat, notes, and recordings, and explore tools like whiteboard and breakout rooms for interactive sessions.  
• Search and organization: Use advanced search techniques, folders, and archiving to find information quickly and keep your workspace organized.  
• Productivity boosters: Explore features like delayed delivery, email templates, voting buttons, and polls to streamline communication and decision-making.  
• Tasks and Microsoft To Do integration: Create tasks from messages, use My Day and priority views, and sync with Microsoft To Do to manage your workload across platforms.  

This workshop is perfect for anyone who collaborates in Teams and wants to move beyond basic messaging and meetings. Whether you're managing projects, coordinating with colleagues, or leading virtual sessions, these tools will help you work smarter and communicate more effectively.

Learn the key principles of being a neuro-inclusive leader in today's and tomorrow's working environment while exploring leadership outside of traditional hierarchy structures. Develop skills to understand and respect different ways of thinking, and gain insights into how diverse perspectives strengthen organizational outcomes.

This Professional Edge training provides a deep dive into intersectionality and examines how identity influences people's experiences at work. You will understand the importance of psychological safety at work through the lens of trauma-informed principles and discover what makes a workplace psychologically safe for all team members.

Throughout the training, you will learn to assess different business scenarios for inclusive or exclusive policies and environments, developing the analytical skills needed to identify areas for improvement.  

Schedule

• Week 1: Friday, February 6, 1:00–3:00 p.m.
• Week 2: Friday, February 13, 1:00–3:00 p.m.
• Week 3: Friday, February 20, 1:00–3:00 p.m.
• Week 4: Friday, February 27, 1:00–3:00 p.m.

Participants who attend all sessions of this program and fulfill all requirements are eligible to earn a Neuroinclusive Leadership microcredential.

This credential is perfect for showcasing your skills on LinkedIn and other platforms, offering tangible proof of your newly acquired competencies.  

Why Participate

• You are looking to build and strengthen your ability to lead and support others in a rapidly changing and growing digital workplace.  
• You are interested in reflecting on your identity, how it may vary from others and what privilege and oppression can look like in the workplace.  
• You are interested in learning how your past experiences and behavior can support or detract from the psychological safety of your work environment.  

What You'll Gain

At the end of this training, you'll be able to:

• Recognize and appreciate neurodiversity as the natural variation in the way people think, feel and experience the world and understand these differences are not deficits.  
• Foster workplace environments that embrace neurodiversity through inclusive policies, practices, and physical/digital environments.  
• Understand as formal or informal leader, that there is no singular "ideal leader" and that there are many ways to lead.  
• Build more compassionate, trusting spaces through an understanding of how trauma impacts our understanding of self and others.  
• Recognize the nuance of intersectionality in the workplace and understand that neuroidentity is only one aspect of how marginalization and privilege can be present in the workplace.  

About the Instructors

Graham Hulbert (he/him) is a mechanical engineer whose early career was spent as a continuous improvement leader in the manufacturing and supply chain industry. He later transferred his love of problem solving into the world of business process design and software implementation. He founded Tula Consulting to showcase the strengths of neurodivergent thinkers and help build more neuroinclusive environments at work.

Vo Vo (they/them) explores support strategies and models of community care within a post-traumatic social landscape, focusing on the resilience of BIPOC, LGBTQIA2S+ and disabled communities. They are editor of an internationally renowned publication, speaker, educator, curator, artist and musician who has exhibited and toured in countries around the world.

Kino Crooke (he/him) is a mental health therapist specializing in crisis response and mental health stabilization during and following significant adverse life events. He works in Vancouver, Washington and Portland, Oregon, both in the community and within a behavioral health hospital and emergency room.

Laura Nichols (she/her) is a mental health therapist and manager for crisis intervention specialists working within a psychiatric emergency room in Portland, Oregon. She runs Courageous Conversations and teaches classes on health equity and anti-racism. She is an adjunct professor in the Lewis and Clark Graduate School of Counseling.