Integrating and Using Inspire within Microsoft Teams

Your Inspire data can be accessed quickly right from Microsoft Teams. This article explains how to add Inspire to Microsoft Teams and interact with your Objectives, 1-1s, Recognition, and Corporate Strategy tabs.

Follow the one-time steps below to integrate your instance of Inspire with Microsoft Teams. Once you have completed the steps, you will be able to use and interact with Inspire from within Microsoft Teams. 

Topics covered include:

Add the Inspire App to Microsoft Teams

Interacting with your Inspire Data within Microsoft Teams

NOTE: An Administrator must upload the Inspire Microsoft Teams app before these steps may be completed by an Inspire user. For more information see Microsoft Teams Integration (Admin Only).

Add the Inspire App to Microsoft Teams

Follow the steps below to add the Inspire App to Microsoft Teams. 

1. Open the Microsoft Teams Application using the web or desktop client.

2. Click the Apps icon at the bottom of the left-hand navigation bar and select More Apps to open the Microsoft Teams application marketplace.

 

3. Type Inspire in the Search field to locate the app. 

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4. Alternately, users can locate the Inspire app by clicking the Built for your org option, if available. 

Teams Apps

5. Click the Inspire application to select it.

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6. Click the Add button to add the Inspire application to Microsoft Teams; the Inspire application for Microsoft Teams is now installed.

Teams Add Inspire

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Interacting with your Inspire data within Microsoft Teams

Once you have added Inspire for Teams, you can use the Inspire integrations directly from within Microsoft Teams.

If you have not already logged in to Inspire in Microsoft Teams, follow steps 1-3 below. 

1.  Open the Microsoft Teams Application using the web or desktop client.

2.  Click the ellipsis at the bottom of the left-hand navigation pane, and then select Inspire for Teams. 

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3. Sign in to Inspire for Teams using the same username and password you use to log in to Inspire in your web browser. 

4. Inspire functions can be accessed from the Home tab.  You can view your data easily by clicking on the tiles for My Objectives, Weekly Plan, 1-1, Recognition, and Corporate Strategy. 

Inspire for Teams Home

Interacting with your Inspire data within Microsoft Teams allows to you fully engage and take advantage of the collaboration of Microsoft Teams as you work, track your work, interact with your supervisor, check your work against your objectives and key results, and immediately give and receive recognition right in the moment. 

TIP: When interacting with your Inspire data within Microsoft Teams, you'll need to click Back to return to the Home tab to access the tiles located on the Home tab.

NOTE: Depending on your organization's configuration not all functions mentioned will be available.

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