Have you heard about Team Copilot yet? It’s the latest addition to Microsoft’s suite of AI tools and should be available later this year.
Think of Team Copilot as an advanced, AI-powered assistant designed to help your employees work better as a team. While Microsoft’s 365 Copilot has been a personal assistant for individual tasks like drafting emails or recapping missed meetings, Team Copilot takes it to the next level by focusing on group activities.
There are three main ways Team Copilot can help your team:
1. Meeting facilitator
During a Teams video call, Team Copilot can take notes that everyone in the meeting can see and edit. It can also create follow-up tasks, track time for each agenda item, and assist with in-person or hybrid meetings when used with Teams Rooms.
2. Group text chat assistant
In group text chats within Teams, Copilot can summarise lengthy conversations to highlight the most important information. It can also answer questions from the group, making it easier to stay on track and informed without wading through pages (and pages and pages) of chat history.
3. Project manager
Team Copilot can help manage projects by creating tasks and goals within Microsoft’s Planner app. It can assign these tasks to team members … and even complete some tasks, like drafting a blog post. It will notify team members when their input is needed.
You know that productivity isn’t just about individual work. It’s also about effective teamwork. So, by helping with group-orientated tasks, Team Copilot can improve your overall productivity.
It’s important to note that while Team Copilot is incredibly helpful, it doesn’t replace the role of a human meeting facilitator. It won’t lead meetings or ensure inclusivity, but it will create agendas, track time, take notes, and share files. Think of it more as a business insights assistant, helping with group interactions and meetings rather than censoring comments or keeping people in line.
Team Copilot will be available in preview later this year for Microsoft 365 customers with a Copilot subscription. Watch out for its release and consider how it could fit into your workflow to boost your team’s productivity because, while it’s still a work in progress, we believe its potential to transform team productivity is huge.