Microsoft Corporation has recently announced the first Employee Experience Platform for the digital era, Microsoft Viva. This platform will bring tools for employee engagement, learning, wellbeing and knowledge discovery, directly into the flow of people’s work. Viva is designed to help employees learn, grow and thrive, with new experiences that integrate with the productivity and collaboration capabilities in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Teams.
Let us first take a look how the future of employee experience would look like using Microsoft Viva from onboarding an employee to collaboration to continuous growth:
During the Microsoft Ignite event Microsoft’s CEO, Satya Nadella also mentioned that every organization requires a unified employee experience from onboarding and collaboration to continuous learning and growth. Viva brings together everything an employee needs to be successful, from day one, in a single, integrated experience directly in Teams.
The announcement video of Microsoft Viva:
Microsoft Viva: empowering every employee for the new digital age.
Microsoft Viva builds on the power of Teams and Microsoft 365 to unify the employee experience across four key areas — Engagement, Wellbeing, Learning and Knowledge, in an integrated experience that empowers people to be their best. Initially, Microsoft has launched Viva with four set of modules that will provide built-in capabilities, integrations from a strong and growing ecosystem and platform extensibility that will enable companies to integrate their existing employee experience systems and tools with Viva to make them more accessible and discoverable to employees.
Viva Connections provides a personalized gateway to your digital workplace where employees can access internal communications and company resources like policies and benefits and participate in communities like employee resource groups, all from a single customizable app in Microsoft Teams. Starting in March, the Microsoft Teams desktop experience for Viva Connections – which provides a curated, company-branded experience including news, conversations and other resources for employees – will begin rolling out to all customers as part of their existing Microsoft 365 license. Viva Connections provides a personalized experience that centralizes relevant news and conversations. Deploy easily as it’s fully integrated in the apps and devices your teams are already using, like Microsoft Teams. SharePoint, and Yammer.
For more details on Viva connection, Do read the Viva Connections Ignite blog and watch the Viva Connections Ignite on-demand session.
Viva Insights gives individuals, managers and leaders personalized and actionable insights that help everyone in an organization thrive. Personal experiences and insights, visible only to the employee, help individuals protect time for regular breaks, focused work and learning, as well as strengthen relationships with their colleagues. Managers and leaders can see trends at team and organization level, as well as recommendations to better balance productivity and wellbeing. The insights are aggregated and deidentified by default to maintain personal privacy. In addition, a new dashboard allows organizations to combine employee feedback from LinkedIn’s Glint with collaboration data from Viva Insights, enabling leaders to more accurately identify where teams may be struggling, proactively adjust work norms, and then quantify the impact of those changes over time. In addition to using data and signals from Microsoft apps, customers will also be able to incorporate data from third-party services like Zoom, Slack, Workday and SAP SuccessFactors.
For more details on Viva Insights, Do read the Viva Insights Ignite blog and watch the Viva Insights Ignite on-demand session.
Viva Learning makes training and professional development opportunities more discoverable and accessible in the flow of work. It aggregates all the learning resources available to an organization in one place, including content from LinkedIn Learning; Microsoft Learn; third-party providers including Skillsoft, Coursera, Pluralsight and edX; as well as an organization’s own content library. From traditional learning courses to microlearning content, users can discover, share, assign and track a wide variety of learning as a natural part of the workday. Microsoft has announced that Viva Learning will enter public preview in April 2021.Microsoft is also showcasing a set of new Viva Learning features, such as: How to use the Teams Admin Center to manage Viva Learning across an organization, how Viva Learning leverages data from the Microsoft Graph to surface relevant recommendations and search results, the latest walkthrough of Viva Learning in a live tenant environment, and more.
For more details on Viva Learning, Do read the Viva Learning Ignite blog and watch the Viva Learning Ignite on-demand session.
Viva Topics delivers a knowledge discovery experience that helps people connect to information and experts across the company. Using AI to reason over a customer’s Microsoft 365 data, and with the ability to integrate knowledge from a variety of third-party services such as ServiceNow and Salesforce, Viva Topics automatically surfaces topic cards within conversations and documents across Microsoft 365 and Teams. Clicking on a card opens a topic page with related documents, conversations, videos and people.
For more details on Viva Topics, Do read the Viva Topics Ignite blog and watch the Viva Topics Ignite on-demand session.
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