Category: Employee Experiences
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Digital Wellbeing with Viva Personal Insights

Here’s some nice easy ways I am using Personal Insights on Viva Insights in the flow of my work to protect my digital wellbeing: I end my very productive day with the satisfaction I am working smarter not harder on Teams with Viva Insights; and my digital well-being is in great shape with my Personal…
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Front Line Workers on Viva Connections

Viva Connections, is a personalised desktop, and mobile app on the left rail of Teams. This is how Leaders and Comms Teams can now easily reach the shop floor, a space that has frustratingly eluded them until now! They now have at their fingertips so many ways to engage ALL staff fast with: You could…
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Harvest priceless tacit knowledge with Viva Topics

I love the “knowledge iceberg” metaphor. I blogged about this a few years ago in relation to Yammer; how the product helps differentiate and cut through “explicit” and “tacit” knowledge sparking serendipitous conversations! “You what?” Here’s an update taking in the Viva suite; enables curating priceless tacit knowledge that we all have, that can become…
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Praise in Personal Viva Insights

There are so many fantastic features at your finger tips in personal Viva Insights to support digital wellbeing. I start with the Praise feature, a simple messaging extension of Teams with the option to send an array of recognition badges to colleagues in both Chat and Channels. You can also Praise in Yammer. I shared…
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Viva Visionary chats with Viva Realist

Two MVPs co-presented at M365 UK User Group on 8 December. They shared their pragmatic Microsoft Viva views alongside predictions for next year, through the lens of Teams. Catch the recorded chat here . Realists are practical, logical, and judge an event as it occurs. They accept a situation as it is and prepared to…
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Make Learning part of personal development

Culture is something that needs to adapt and change, and you’ve got to be able to have a learning culture. The intuition I got was from observing what happens in schools. I read a book called Mindset. In there there’s this very simple concept that Carol Dweck talks about, which is if you take two people,…
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Viva day in the life on Teams!

Please join Cloud Conversations podcast hosted by Peter Rising, Kat Greenan and the Viva Visionary. For this exact content start 26 minutes in to the podcast. I start the day with breakfast and my Viva briefing email which I read on my mobile, pulling outstanding tasks and meetings from Outlook. Get dressed and move to…
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Topics enable Knowledge Management

Welcome to Viva Topics with a focus on knowledge and expertise. Topics applies AI to identify knowledge and experts and organise them into shared topics. AI automatically creates a topic page for each topic. It’s like Wikipedia for the enterprise where AI does the first draft. These topic pages are surfaced as “Topic Cards” right…
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Connections engage employees

Welcome to Viva Connections a desktop and mobile experience that brings together your relevant work news, conversations, and most popular resources in a personalised intranet. Built in Modern SharePoint with Yammer and Stream to help engage, inform and enable a hybrid workforce in the flow of their work – through the lens of Teams. Working…