Running workshops with Microsoft Whiteboard

Internal workshops provide a great way for employees to get together to generate ideas, align on objectives, or even learn new concepts and skills.

The visual collaboration workspace provided by Whiteboard creates the perfect place where employees can come together to ideate and learn.

Key features:

Workshop template in Whiteboard

Conducting a successful brainstorming workshop

Do the following:

Schedule a Microsoft Teams meeting.
Navigate to the Teams meeting and select Whiteboard from the list at the top of the meeting.  You can also do this by creating a whiteboard and sharing the link in the Whiteboard Windows App or in the browser at whiteboard.office.com.
In the creation panel, select Templates > Brainstorming, and then choose a template.
Add your session goals and label everything else appropriately.
Share a link to the board if others are helping you prepare.

Ensure all attendees have the Teams meeting link.
Once the meeting has started, share the whiteboard from the Share tray, or send the link to your board from the Whiteboard app or from whiteboard.office.com.
Introduce the goal of the session and ensure everyone is familiar with using Whiteboard.
Consider how you’d like to organize the session (for example, using dedicated sticky note colors for specific people, reactions representing different ideas, and so on).
Run the workshop how you normally would, encouraging participation through Teams and directly on the whiteboard.
Use the "Raise Hand" feature in Teams to organize the order in which participants will speak.
Keep an eye on the time to make sure you’ll be able to cover all topics.

Send a message to attendees with the link to the whiteboard so everyone has access.
If you want to send a snapshot of the finished whiteboard with anyone, export and then share a PNG image from the Settings menu. .
Migrate the finalized action items to the tool of your choice to take action and measure progress.