Microsoft Viva – Connection, from the top floor to the bottom floor
The platform that you and your team work from needs to be as functional and easy to use as possible, it is a necessity for a business to thrive. If a business – for whatever reason – cannot provide a platform that assists their team in using their skills and capabilities to the very highest standard possible then they are already playing catch up to the competition before the workday has even begun.
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Throughout the article we will be looking at Microsoft Viva and really getting to know the new member of the 365 family and how your organisation could benefit from implementing it.
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Microsoft Viva
Microsoft Viva is designed as an employee experience platform to empower teams to achieve their very best from anywhere in the world. It successfully consolidates your teams’ communications, learning, insights, and knowledge into one place, all within the app we all know and love Microsoft Teams! We will now look at Microsoft Viva’s four different categories.
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MS Viva – Insights
Insights allows you and your team to work faster and smarter with personalised reminders. It offers a place for focused work that requires more attention or coaching, organises the time you allocated for training and learning, and allocates time for your individual learning – all with the personalised reminders we mentioned earlier – to be sure you stay on top of them. It even has a break section, with all that business owners have had on their plate this past year or so with the uncertainty that Covid-19 bought in its wake, it is essential that everyone gets a little bit of time for themselves, this need for scheduled break times is also important with team member working from home and not having the same structure to their workday as on-premise workers. And, lastly, the ‘virtual commute’ feature, which gives you a small boost at the end of your day and helps you bring a final finish to it, particularly remote workers in a thriving busy business can find themselves working long after their supposed ‘clock out’ time.
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MS Viva – Connections
Connections is the gateway to your Viva experience; no matter your location in the world you can stay informed. Connections is fully customisable to your organisation and personalised for you with a feed of news that is relevant to your business, announcements, and conversations, allowing you to feel confident you are as up to date as possible. Connections gives you the power to tailor your experience to every role within your organisation, this is relevant for workers from the shop floor to the top floor and ensures everyone is connected, up to date, and feeling like an important cog in the machine that is the workplace irrespective of their job role.
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MS Viva – Insights for management
As a manager your Insights experience will look slightly different. Insights for management provides recommendations to ensure healthy successful teams and build personal and organisational durability, no matter your teams location on the globe. Viva can break different parts of your organisation down statistically through the use of graphs and percentages, for example Insights for management can help you see if your team is at risk of burnout by displaying how many hours your team are working per week with the graphs and percentages we referenced earlier, with this information Viva breaks down what they are doing in that overtime allowing you the opportunity to help your team. Insights for management promotes healthy work habits for your team and guarantees that they can achieve a good work life balance, this, in turn, allows them to produce top quality work every time because they are well rested and happy with the work life balance they are achieving.
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MS Viva – Learning
Viva Learning consolidates all your learning resources into one place. It is a place for all content that’s been assigned to you and recommended from different sources, as well as your own custom content, top content providers, and learning management systems (including LinkedIn Learning and Microsoft Learn). Viva Learning makes learning another task in your workday, it allows everyone to learn whilst working around the normal flow of work meaning there is no reason why a team member growth should be put on hold just because they are busy.
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MS Viva – Learning for management
Viva Learning for management gives you the power to assign learning tasks and track its completion, giving you the power to speed up and monitor onboarding where necessary. With Viva Learning for management, you can assess who within your organisation is serious about growing and developing their skills.
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MS Viva – Topics
Viva Topics connects you to knowledge and experts automatically. For example, when you come across an unfamiliar topic or acronym simply hover over it, there is no need to search for what you need as it will simply appear there. If this doesn’t provide enough information for you simply click instead, and you will be presented with people, resources, and conversations in regard to the topic. Once having clicked you have an option to ask a question – either Viva will have the answer or it calls upon the help of top experts in the topic, which it does by building topic pages with AI (Artificial intelligence) automatically whilst making sure your sensitive content remains protected at all times. Topics allows you to bring all the knowledge that is in your organisation into one place, connecting that knowledge – or lack of – to one another, meaning that the more skilled team members can hand down their knowledge to the less skilled team members.
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Viva is one of the most innovative tools in Microsoft’s’ repertoire, integrating communication, insight, learning, and knowledge together in one easy to use experience for the entire organisation from top to bottom is simply extraordinary. Implementing it will undoubtedly help your organisation to thrive and grow in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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