Embarrassing Microsoft Teams Meeting Mistakes: What NOT TO DO!

Navigate Microsoft Teams like a pro and avoid common, embarrassing mistakes! This video is a must-watch for anyone who regularly uses Microsoft Teams for meetings and collaboration. We cover practical tips to help you present professionally and effectively.

✅ What You'll Learn:
▪️ Avoiding Overwriting Shared Files: Tips to prevent accidental changes to team documents.
▪️ Eliminating Echo in Calls: Best practices for clear audio in Teams meetings.
▪️ Camera Awareness: Remembering when your camera is on during presentations and meetings.
▪️ Sharing Content Properly: Ensuring your audience sees everything they need to during a presentation.

In this video I'll share 4 embarrassing mistakes using Microsoft Teams and how you can avoid making a fool of yourself. If you'd like to succeed in the digital workplace make sure you avoid these mistakes. It's no secret - online working and remote learning are a part of our life now due to the Coronavirus quarantine lockdown. These online meetings come with new challenges. From remembering to mute your microphone or turn your camera off, sharing window instead of desktop or forgetting that files in Teams are automatically saved, take a look at my list of embarrassing online meeting moments. Many of these don't just apply to Microsoft Teams but also to Zoom meetings.

00:00 Embarrassing Mistakes Using Microsoft Teams
00:31 Unintentionally Overwriting Shared Files
02:05 Echo During Meeting Calls
03:06 Forget That Your Camera Is On
03:54 Showing People Things They Can't See
05:18 Wrap Up

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[kaycee]

Here's my embarrassing story: I shared my screen during a top level meeting and forgot to unshare it. (The red rectangle on the screen share is too subtle imo.) As the meeting went on for a while, I decided to chat with my coworker on Teams about how bored I was. As I was typing, I started to realize people's expressions were changing on my other screen 😲 and the red rectangle around the screen where I was chatting! Good thing my camera was turned off as I slid under my chair and hid. 😳My coworker taunted me for a while after and I will never forget to unshare my screen from that day forward. 😔

[OvidiuHretcanu]

use a secondary screen (no taskbar), and get into the habit of always having only the stuff you want to share there.
4:48 join the Team call from your smartphone ;) MAKE sure you have volume way down+mutted+no camera on the second device.

[aliciakoch]

DONT FORGET TO LOG OFF THE MEETING WHEN IT ENDS!! ESPECIALLY IF IT IS BEING RECORDED!!

[UhTriq]

Also a good idea to never share a screen that actively gets message notifications (that includes what they said) from coworkers

[VDash-Slesinski]

As an additional control over my camera, I have a device that physically covers my camera. I keep the slider closed at all times until I’m ready to share. I have this on all my computer and iPad cameras.

[mathisfun]

The first one is very relatable: So once our teacher gave us a test and it was on a word file and she said right the answers on a paper...this girl she started typing all the answers in the word file and many of us looked at it ><

[pushpajchougule]

I remember editing an excel shared file on Teams and deleting my text later on.... although nothing personal was there but glad to know there is a way to come out of that situation. Thanks Leila 🙌

[alexisjoe]

You are the best, Leila!! . My company has just required us to use TEAMS and your channel has all the info I need! Thanks so much for the tips and your wonderful presentation style!

[vijayarjunwadkar]

A 🙌 for these tips! Very much needed to avoid embarrassment! Liked the one on File restore, to overcome the most common mistake that happens. Thanks Leila, your videos are becoming more polished and visually appealing day by day. Loving it! Keep them rolling! 😊👍

[fredrikschroder]

Thanks Leila, you always have valuable info and tips in your videos, even for us who work with these stuff everyday.
Thanks for putting in a little extra effort to really provide something!

[cesarprieto]

When you’re presenting you can go to teams meeting window and press CTRL + M so you have a small visible window of the controls of your audio and video and be sure of what is activated or not.

[qinyu]

I love this channel, provide lessons from daily office tricks to advance skill sets.

[Nanna]

Last year, I had a coworker forget to mute himself when he went on breaks, I came back early from break, put my headset on, and could hear commotion and what sounded like a fight going on in the coworkers background. He came back and acted like nothing was happening, but something definitely was!

[DarrylTucker]

Great suggestions! Thanks for another great video!

[edwardsmith]

Hi Leila, another informative video, thank you! If you want to share your desktop but don't want other to see other stuff, you can move the XL, PPT, whatever ... to a new Desktop and present from there. That way you get the best of both worlds. Now if only Windows Desktops were are easy to use as on Linux ...

[jeanlucfcn]

Excellent !!! je pense que chacun d'entre nous soit se reconnait, soit reconnait quelqu'un !!! les joies de la distance. sans compter les commentaires OFF de l'entourage. Bravo et merci Leila pour ce moment autant divertissant qu'instructif. il ne faut jamais oublier les fondamentaux !!!

[tomnicolle]

Leila you are the best! Thanks so much for the tips and your wonderful presentation style.

[lec]

Teams automatically starts when our computers boot up at my organization, and we frequently have people somehow accidentally type their passwords in LARGE Teams chats. 🤦🏻‍♀️

[fpformation]

@Leila Gharani Great useful videos. I was unable to share my presentation during my previous meeting. Somehow the sharing button/icon did not appear! Could this be related to updates or something!

[aureliasharlenedelossantos]

Thank you so.much for the information. Be safe. ❤️