- Thanks, Brad.
As people have shifted to remote work,
customers increasingly have turned to collaboration
and learning tools.
Usage of Microsoft and LinkedIn products
has increased significantly, in the last few months,
and companies need to ensure
their workforces remain productive, agile, and competitive,
in a challenging global economy.
While customers have told us they value skilling,
they've also shared how challenging it can be
to create successful corporate learning environments.
There are a couple of themes we often hear.
First, employers know
they need to train and retrain employees
to do current and new jobs well,
but many companies struggle to connect
learning to business impact,
making it hard to justify continued investments in learning.
Engagement is also a big challenge.
Proactive engagement and learning at work tends to be low,
and many employees don't have enough time or incentive
to learn at work.
There's also low cultural emphasis placed on learning,
with research showing that only 1/3 of employees
have leadership teams encouraging them to learn.
At Microsoft, our goal is to empower employees
to grow in their roles and their careers,
which helps businesses thrive.
We'll accomplish this by bringing learning
into the natural flow of work for employees,
instead of a separate task in their busy day.
This means making it easier
for employees, managers, and teams
to collaborate, discover, and track their learning,
with the tools they already use.
All levels of employees are already using Microsoft Teams
for chatting, meeting, collaborating,
and streamlining business processes.
Now, we're adding learning.
Later this year, we will preview
a new learning app in Microsoft Teams,
that integrates world-class content from LinkedIn Learning,
Microsoft Learn,
a customer's own content, and other content providers,
all in one place.
The content will range
from formalized instructor-led trainings to microlearning,
which allows you to gain skills by role or technology,
in bite-sized and interactive ways.
The app will make it easier for employees
to find and access relevant training content,
wherever they are,
allowing them to have conversations around that content,
and earn certifications and recognition for their skills.
It will also empower managers
to assign and track learning progress,
all while using Teams:
a familiar tool they use every day.
From new employees, to managers, to firstline workers,
The Learning App in Teams will make it easier
for employees to learn while they work.
We're working hard to create this experience,
and I'm excited to share an early preview
of how this will come to life.
Let's take a look.
- [Narrator] Around the world, employees use Microsoft Teams
as their hub for teamwork.
Now, we're extending Teams to include learning,
enabling employees to learn, within the flow of their work.
Let's see how learning comes to life in Teams.
The Learning App in Teams makes it easy
to discover and share trainings and courses.
Raj just joined the team.
As he gets started, he opens Teams,
and sees a welcome message from his manager, Julia,
along with a reply from a team member,
suggesting he check out the Our Trainings tab.
In Our Trainings, the team has curated
all of the trainings helpful to a new team member,
including technical trainings for Microsoft Learn,
courses from LinkedIn Learning,
and company-owned learning content,
all available in one easy to access place.
Raj needs to decide which training to take first.
He's able to see how many people at the company
have viewed and liked each course.
He selects a training, and opens it in Teams,
where he can start the training,
catch up on the latest conversation,
and join the discussion.
When Raj completes the training,
he moves right back into the flow of his work in Teams.
Managers facilitate the discovery of learning resources
and foster discussion, so that peer learning can flourish.
To enable that, managers need tools
to assign and track trainings.
In her Activity feed,
Julia sees a LinkedIn Learning video,
posted by MJ, a fellow team leader.
She clicks on the training, and sees more details,
along with Like and Assign options.
She thinks the training will be beneficial,
and decides to ask two of her teams to take it.
Without leaving Teams,
she can easily assign the course to individuals or groups.
Back in the Manage tab,
Julia can see all of the learning materials
she's assigned to different teams and individuals,
as well as their completion status.
The Learning App in Teams
makes it easy to find and access microlearning content,
helping employees complete tasks efficiently.
Richard is a firstline worker who has a question,
while working in a remote cell tower.
He taps on a group chat in the Teams app,
and posts his question.
His colleague, Olivia, sees his question,
and remembers watching a relevant training, last week.
She quickly searches for it in the Learning App,
finds it, and sends it to Richard.
Richard views the training,
and is able to complete it, right from his phone.
He receives credit for finishing the training,
and earns a certification card, verifying his new skill,
which he is easily able to add to his LinkedIn profile.
At every level of your organization,
the Learning App in Microsoft Teams,
with LinkedIn Learning and Microsoft Learn,
makes learning content more easily discoverable,
and facilitates social learning,
right within the flow of work.