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The Microsoft Team Management Professional Certificate prepares you to lead teams, manage performance, and coordinate day-to-day operations in digital work environments. Organizations rely on managers who can translate priorities into structured team activity, maintain accountability, and guide teams through evolving demands.
Designed for aspiring team leaders and first-line managers, this program builds practical capability to guide communication, support employee development, monitor performance, and coordinate operational work.
You will learn to lead structured meetings, communicate expectations clearly, and conduct coaching and feedback conversations. You will also develop the ability to align team goals with organizational priorities, monitor performance using defined indicators, and manage accountability across team members.
As the program progresses, you will build operational capability by planning work, allocating resources, and addressing performance issues. You will also learn to guide teams through change and reinforce behaviors that sustain performance.
Through applied scenarios and practical activities, you will manage team communication, performance, and coordination using Microsoft tools such as Teams and OneNote.
By completing this program, you will strengthen your readiness for team leader and first-line manager roles, with the ability to guide team activity, manage performance, and support continuous improvement.
Syllabus
- Course 1: Leading Through Communication, Coaching, and Trust
- Course 2: Driving Performance, Alignment, and Accountability
- Course 3: Change, Innovation, and Sustainable Team Culture
- Course 4: Operational Planning and Problem Solving
Courses
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Managers are responsible for ensuring that team activity translates into measurable results. This requires setting clear goals, monitoring performance using evidence, and maintaining accountability across team members. This course introduces the performance management practices used to align work with organizational priorities and sustain consistent results. You will examine how managers define goals, evaluate performance indicators, conduct performance discussions, and delegate responsibilities effectively. Throughout the course, you will apply these skills in realistic workplace scenarios, using Power BI and Excel to track performance and Microsoft Teams to communicate expectations. By the end of this course, you will be able to align team activity to goals, monitor performance using structured indicators, and manage accountability through clear expectations and delegation.
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Managers guide teams through evolving priorities, new processes, and changing organizational expectations. Effective managers help teams adapt to change, support innovation, and maintain a healthy work culture that encourages collaboration and resilience. This course explores how managers prepare teams for change, support continuous improvement, and reinforce behaviors that strengthen team engagement. Learners examine how managers communicate change initiatives, facilitate idea generation, recognize employee contributions, and support team well-being. Instructional demonstrations illustrate how managers use Microsoft Teams to communicate updates, Microsoft Whiteboard to facilitate brainstorming workshops, and Microsoft Forms to gather team feedback during change initiatives. Learners analyze workplace scenarios involving change adoption, innovation initiatives, and team morale challenges. Through these scenarios, they evaluate how managerial actions influence team motivation and adaptability. By the end of the course, learners understand how managers guide teams through change, encourage improvement ideas, and sustain a positive team environment.
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Managers build leadership credibility primarily through communication and interpersonal interaction. Teams rely on managers to provide clear expectations, guide discussions, offer constructive feedback, and handle workplace challenges with professionalism. This course introduces the communication and coaching practices that support effective team leadership. Learners examine how managers conduct structured meetings, deliver feedback conversations, support employee development, and respond to difficult interpersonal situations. Throughout the course, learners apply their skills in realistic workplace scenarios, using digital tools such as Microsoft Teams, Outlook, and OneNote to communicate and collaborate. By the end of the course, learners understand how communication clarity, emotional awareness, and constructive coaching practices help managers build trust and guide productive team interactions.
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Managers are responsible for organizing work, allocating resources, and resolving operational challenges that affect team delivery. Effective managers must analyze problems, plan projects, coordinate resources, and adjust processes to improve efficiency. This course introduces the analytical and operational practices managers use to guide team execution. Learners explore how managers plan projects, estimate resources, monitor budgets, and diagnose operational problems. Throughout the course, workplace scenarios show how managers organize planning information using Excel spreadsheets, facilitate problem-solving sessions using Microsoft Whiteboard, and review operational performance data through Power BI dashboards. Learners evaluate workplace scenarios involving project planning, budgeting decisions, and process improvement initiatives. These scenarios highlight how structured analysis and data-informed decision-making support effective operational management. By the end of the course, learners understand how managers plan work systematically, allocate resources responsibly, and guide teams through operational problem solving.
Taught by
Microsoft