Microsoft Announced Copilot in Microsoft Viva
Microsoft recently announced the introduction of Copilot in Microsoft Viva, along with the release of Microsoft Viva Glint. These tools aim to help organizations build a more productive and engaged workforce, leveraging next-generation AI to accelerate employee engagement and drive better business outcomes. In today’s fast-paced business world, employee productivity is essential for driving performance. However, solely focusing on productivity can limit creativity, teamwork, and increase employee burnout. Therefore, it is essential to prioritize employee engagement alongside productivity to achieve sustained success.
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The Importance of Employee Engagement
Studies show that employee engagement is key to business success, and businesses with engaged employees perform twice as well financially as those without. Relying on productivity alone can stifle creativity, limit teamwork, and lead to employee burnout. Therefore, businesses must prioritize both productivity and employee engagement to achieve sustained success.
Copilot in Microsoft Viva
Copilot in Microsoft Viva is built on the Microsoft 365 Copilot System, which combines the power of large language models (LLMs) with data from the Microsoft Graph and Viva apps. It offers leaders a new way to understand and engage their workforce, with the aim of creating clarity and alignment across the organization. Copilot in Viva aims to help businesses prioritize employee engagement alongside productivity to achieve better business outcomes.
Copilot in Microsoft Viva Goals
Hybrid work has made it challenging to create clarity and alignment around company and team priorities. Copilot in Microsoft Viva Goals simplifies goal setting by guiding leaders through the process of creating objectives and key results (OKRs) while also simplifying goal management across the organization. Copilot can suggest draft OKR recommendations based on existing Word documents. Once created, Copilot summarizes the status of OKRs, identifies blockers, and suggests next steps. Moreover, Copilot can consolidate existing data to generate more comprehensive check-ins, allowing teams to leverage a breadth of knowledge across different sources of truth.
Copilot in Microsoft Viva Engage
High-performing organizations benefit from strong leadership communications and engagement with employees. In the new hybrid world, leaders need to connect across remote and in-person employees, inspire and inform them, and create listening engines to assess workforce sentiment. Copilot in Microsoft Viva Engage helps leaders create compelling and inspiring posts from simple prompts or trending topics within workplace communities and storyline conversations. Copilot offers suggestions to personalize messages with options to adjust tone and length and to suggest relevant images, all to help drive authenticity and engagement. Leaders can utilize Copilot to analyze engagement metrics, assess sentiment, and recommend responses.
Copilot in Microsoft Viva Learning
In addition to great communications, it’s critical that the workforce has the skills and learning needed to stay engaged and productive. Copilot in Microsoft Viva Learning suggests curated learning collections and concise knowledge summaries tailored to specific roles or development needs, making it easier and more effortless for leaders to help skill and train the workforce.
Copilot in Microsoft Viva Topics
With Copilot in Microsoft Viva Topics, employees can use a conversational interface
Viva Glint, the newest addition to the Microsoft Viva suite, is designed to address this challenge. It offers a comprehensive employee engagement and feedback platform that helps organizations measure, understand, and improve the employee experience. Glint provides leaders with real-time insights and analytics, allowing them to make informed decisions and take targeted action to drive business success.
Glint’s user-friendly interface makes it easy for leaders to collect feedback from employees through surveys, pulse polls, and other means. The platform uses advanced analytics to identify key drivers of engagement and productivity, highlighting areas where the organization is doing well and areas where improvement is needed. Leaders can also use Glint to track progress over time, comparing results across different teams, departments, and locations.
In addition to providing insights into employee engagement, Glint also helps leaders understand the factors that impact the employee experience. The platform offers tools for measuring employee sentiment, identifying areas of concern, and providing actionable recommendations for improvement. This data-driven approach empowers leaders to create a more positive and productive work environment, which in turn drives business success.
Conclusion:
Microsoft Viva is a powerful suite of tools designed to help organizations create a more engaged and productive workforce. With Copilot, Viva takes advantage of next-generation AI to accelerate the performance equation, where engagement and productivity lead to better business outcomes and success. Copilot in Viva simplifies goal setting and management, enables effective leadership communication and engagement with employees, and provides curated learning collections and concise knowledge summaries tailored to specific roles or development needs. Glint, the newest addition to the Viva suite, offers a comprehensive employee engagement and feedback platform that helps organizations measure, understand, and improve the employee experience. With Viva Glint, leaders can use data to measure and continuously improve their business, driving sustained success over the long term.
