You receive ideas from employees in a Microsoft Teams channel. Managers are not members of the Teams channel. Submissions must be reviewed by three managers who are determined by submission type…

Creating an approval request in the Teams channel where managers are not members would mean they wouldn't see or be able to respond to the request directly within that context.

An "approval template" is a reusable structure for approvals, but the question asks what "should you create" to get the approval, implying the specific request itself, not just the blueprint.

Creating an approval request in a chat directly with the three specific managers ensures that only the relevant approvers receive the request and can provide their input. This bypasses the issue of managers not being members of the original Teams channel and explicitly requires all designated managers to respond, fulfilling the approval requirement.

An "approval template" is a reusable structure, not the approval request itself. While sequential approvals are possible, the question doesn't specify an order, and the primary issue is getting the request to the correct non-channel members.