What is Microsoft Viva?
Earlier this year, Microsoft introduced a new product called Microsoft Viva. Viva is the first employee experience platform to 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.
As the workplace begins to evolve after COVID-19, we have learned over the past year that meeting fatigue and digital overload are real, and remote work and now Hybrid work has challenged our wellbeing. To help, Microsoft has built Microsoft Viva into Teams, so that employees can find ways to protect time and preserve their well-being right in the flow of their work.
What is Microsoft Viva?
Microsoft Viva is an employee experience platform that brings together communications, knowledge, learning, resources, and insights. Powered by Microsoft 365 and experienced primarily through Microsoft Teams, Viva fosters a culture where people and teams are empowered be their best from anywhere.
What Does Viva Include?
Viva integrates Microsoft Teams and the Microsoft 365 solution with a selection of tools for employee engagement and experience. The functionality of Viva is split across four segments:
Viva Connections
Viva Insights
Viva Learning
Viva Topics
All these solutions work together and individually to provide today’s team members with a more aligned environment for employee productivity. Viva is the all-in-one EXP solution designed by Microsoft Teams to empower the modern employee in a time of remote work. It could also be one of the most valuable tools on the market for team leaders who want to ensure the ongoing productivity and wellbeing of their remote staff members.
Microsoft Teams and Viva
Weekly meeting time for Teams users has more than doubled since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Back-to-back meetings increase stress and make it harder to stay engaged and focused. In just a few minutes a day, meditation and mindfulness with Headspace can help you reduce stress and improve focus. Starting later this month, we’re bringing a curated set of guided meditations and mindfulness exercises from Headspace to the Viva Insights app in Teams to help you start your day grounded, relax your mind before a big presentation, or disconnect from work in the evening.
Building upon the Viva Insights ability to schedule daily focus time to work uninterrupted with Teams notifications silenced, we are introducing a new focus mode in the Viva Insights app later this year. This will feature Focus music from Headspace and implement timers to help you make progress on important tasks in regular intervals with breaks planned in between.
The Excel & Flourish way
With the workspace evolving at a rapid pace, the need for training has increased. And when you make training fun, it can help build up your team through networking and confidence. At Excel & Flourish, we can provide a variety of in-person and remote training options for your team. We specifically design our training around your team’s needs, so whether they are all in-person, online or a combo of both, we can tailor our training to your needs and engage everyone.