Microsoft Viva, the employee experience platform

These two new features, available in SharePoint but specifically developed for use in Teams, use Microsoft's new technology: Adaptives Cards. Cards created for mobile use that allow communication or tasks to be transmitted quickly and, above all, easily consumed in a mobile experience. Here we can see Microsoft's desire to respond to an important issue: communication to the field or Deskless populations. Behind this, the same technology: SharePoint. Centralizing all these uses in Teams is above all a great opportunity to offer a seamless digital work experience for employees while benefiting from a secure and familiar environment.

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Viva Insights :

60% of employees report higher levels of stress and pressure since switching to hybrid working and also report poorer balance. How can employee well-being be improved? Insights seeks to provide visibility into work habits and their impact on productivity and well-being. It offers personalized recommendations on 3 levels:  

• At the employee level: recommendations for organizing breaks in your schedule, planning time for personal work or connecting with colleagues;
• At the managerial level: personalized recommendations based on anonymized data that aim to promote the well-being of teams;
• At the managerial level: suggest new organizational models to ensure a balance between performance and well-being.

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Viva Topics :

We spend an average of 1 hour a day searching for information. Viva Topics can be considered as a corporate Wikipedia coupled with the power of AI. It allows content to be displayed in the form of a map around a topic and a thematic sheet directly integrated into SharePoint. The platform therefore allows experts to cultivate and share knowledge with ease through Outlook, Office, Teams or within Microsoft 365 user profiles. These Topics can contain different information about projects, customers, processes, etc. Each time this information is mentioned in a document or message, a link is created to the corresponding page. This page takes the form of a wiki and can be enriched.

Viva Learning:

Training is a lever for career development when you are an employee. It is also a necessity for the company, if it wants its equipment to be efficient and up to date. According to Comundi, training is a major lever for productivity because it helps attract candidates and limit turnover, in addition to helping employees grow.

Training is a differentiator and Microsoft has understood this. By launching Viva Learning, the American giant wants to integrate training into the daily lives of employees. Employees will be able to access educational content more easily and discover programs that are useful for their career development.  

This learning hub is extremely rich, integrating training from dozens of partners such as Linkedin Learning, SkillSoft, Coursera, to name but a few. Viva Learnings' Artificial Intelligence then leverages these materials to create the best training path for each employee.

Viva Engage:

The goal of Viva Engage? To be able to build authentic relationships at work and offer employees a place to communicate, express themselves and find their belonging.

The features of Viva Engage are:

• Advertisements
• The conversations
• The stories and storylines
• Virtual events
• Questions and answers
• The headings
• Analytical

Viva Goals:

A solution for defining goals and managing objectives and key results to align teams with the organization's priority strategies in order to boost results and grow the business. Viva Goals completes this value around OKRs(Objectives and Key Results) to contribute to the project management part.

Viva Amplify:

Centralized resources, integrated writing tips, and results dashboards are available to improve the resonance of internal messages and boost employee motivation, whether they are working from home or the office.

Viva Pulse:

With this survey tool, managers can identify what is working well and what can be improved. In short, they can take a true inventory in a hybrid work environment.

Viva Sales:

Viva Sales eliminates the need for manual data entry, so that salespeople can focus entirely on selling.

• Reduction of tedious tasks such as data collection and entry;
• Productivity gains through actionable insights;
• Closing sales with suggested follow-ups and reminders

Things to remember

📌 Microsoft Viva's mission is to improve the employee experience;

SharePoint becomes the backend behind Teams and some Viva modules like Connections or Topics ;

📌 Viva Connections helps infuse a culture of engagement and communication;

📌 Viva Insights helps balance well-being and productivity;

📌 Viva Topics for access to competence and information sharing with Artificial Intelligence ;

📌 Viva Learnings to boost skills and facilitate employee training;

📌 Viva Engage which serves as a connection and socialization platform for members of an organization ;

📌 Viva Goals to create a goal-oriented culture that promotes team alignment to achieve desired outcomes;

📌 Viva Amplify to improve internal communication;

📌 Viva Pulse to inform managers and team leaders about their team's experience through regular and confidential feedback ;

📌 Viva Sales to equip CRMs with an intelligent interface.

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