Microsoft Viva Services: Leveraging Viva to Maximise Employee Experience

Microsoft Viva empowers managers and leaders to take a holistic approach to their people management. Our Viva services help organisations get started and understand where Viva sits amongst your existing Microsoft 365 ecosystem. We develop Viva solution roadmaps that help organisations to maximise their Microsoft value by gaining sentiment and workplace behavior visibility, two-way communication and management of their colleagues and culture.

OKR Framework & Viva Goals

Align employees toward a shared vision and objectives to drive purpose, productivity, and organisational change.

  • Harness the OKR framework to enhance alignment, focus and work culture driving business growth 
  • Identify key scenarios crucial for clear, unified, and result-driven organisational direction 
  • Experience Viva Goals’ effectiveness in delivering measurable results with precise goal and OKR management 

Internal Communications & Employee Experience

Distribute company news to foster transparency, enhance employee engagement and align teams towards common goals, ensuring a cohesive and informed workforce.

  • Deliver company-wide authoritative news in Viva Engage
  • Boost SharePoint news to prioritise visibility in Viva Connections
  • Elevate messaging using centralised communication process with enhanced design capabilities in Viva Amplify

Microsoft’s licence bundle for Communications & Communities can help organisations supercharge employee comms. Read more about it here.

Retention, Onboarding & People Measurement

Design a way for leaders to translate insights into actionable opportunities to enhance employee engagement and improve business outcomes.

  • Capture employee voice and sentiment with Viva Glint 
  • Gain visibility into workplace behaviours and foster high-performing teams through Viva Insights 
  • Empower leaders and managers to take control with Viva Pulse 

Our Clients

Demystifying Microsoft Viva

Catch up on our on-demand webinar. Focusing only on the apps that IC need to know: Connections, Engage, Amplify and Goals.

In partnership with the Institute of Internal Communication.

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Microsoft Viva Videos

Why Work with a Viva Experience Partner

We provide clarity amongst the confusion and frustration when it comes to navigating the Viva platform. Our experience in working with organisations discovering the art of what’s possible enables the smoothest transition to prioritising business challenges and rolling out the right solutions. 

By building a roadmap together, we’ll enable cross-functional collaboration, breaking down silos and fostering a level of teamwork that may not have been possible otherwise. End result? A high-performance and fully engaged organisation. 

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Through the OKR framework and Viva Goals, we will be able to effectively track and measure our impact, highlight the collective efforts of our teams, and show our employees how their meaningful work is helping us drive our long-term strategy forward.

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Viva Resources

What is Microsoft Viva? An Internal Communicator's Ultimate Guide

A deep dive into Viva Engage, Viva Connections, Viva Amplify and Viva Goals to help internal communicators understand how Microsoft Viva can help – including key features and real life use-cases.

Front cover of the Internal Comms Guide to Microsoft Viva

Driving Employee Experience with Microsoft Viva

Learn how to leverage Microsoft Viva and level up your employee experience (EX).

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What Are The Viva Modules?

Viva Connections

Viva Connections is your gateway to a modern employee experience. With company-branded, personalised, curated dashboards and feeds, Connections keeps your people engaged and informed.

Viva Connections pulls together content, tools and resources into the apps your employees are already using – like Teams. This means your people can catch up on company news, see their daily task list, manage their shifts and see the canteen lunch menu all in one place.

Learn more about Viva Connections.

Viva Insights

Viva Insights provides data at a personal, departmental and organisational level to help you make informed decisions that positively impact wellbeing and productivity.

From improving collaboration habits, to avoiding burnout, Viva Insights takes real data and turns it into actionable recommendations that work for your business and your people.

Viva Learning

Viva Learning offers access to thousands of professional training resources accessible via Teams, helping to embed training and development as part of your organisational culture.

Provide focus and structure to your employee training strategy using tools like Learning Pathways, sharing and assigning content, and blocking out learning time in calendars.

Viva Glint

Viva Glint is designed to optimise your employee engagement. Analyse employee voice and compare it with workplace patterns to drive business outcomes. The holistic insights enable organisations to take action based on real-time data.

Viva Engage

Viva Engage

Viva Engage is the new home for communities in Teams, helping to build connections across your business.

With features like stories, announcements, conversations and Q&A, Viva Engage is a Teams app powered by Yammer that gives employees a space to build meaningful relationships.

Learn more about Viva Engage here.

Viva Goals

Viva Goals lets you set, track and manage OKRs, helping to align teams to strategic priorities whilst allowing employees to understand their impact and stay focused on what matters.

With Viva Goals, you can connect projects and tasks to team and organisational OKRs, so every employee can see how their daily work makes an impact.

Read our Viva Goals Explainer

Viva Amplify

Viva Amplify is built to streamline communication and will be a central space to publish communications to multiple channels, manage campaigns and track metrics.

Get to know Viva Amplify in our deep dive

Viva Pulse

Viva Pulse is all about employee feedback. Using smart templates, research-backed questions and analytics, Pulse enables and encourages teams to use their voice.

Viva Pulse plugs straight into Teams and gives managers and team leads a streamlined way to see how their people are feeling.

Microsoft Viva FAQs

How is Viva Connections different to your SharePoint homepage?

Viva Connections is an ally for your SharePoint intranet, not a replacement. It takes the content from your SharePoint site and brings it into a dedicated homepage in Teams – making it available where people are already working.

You also don’t need a SharePoint intranet to use Viva Connections. You can create a Connections homepage from a blank slate, and choose which content to display. This is great for organisations who are yet to build their intranet, or are using a non-Microsoft solution.

Is Viva Engage good for deskless workers?

Absolutely. Viva Engage can be accessed via the Teams mobile app, or it has its own dedicated mobile app. Perfect for on-the-go colleagues.

It’s a great way for frontline workers to meet and connect with colleagues who they rarely, if ever, see face-to-face.

Plus, premium features like Leadership Corner give field workers a chance to engage with organisational leaders.

Where does Viva Engage sit alongside your SharePoint intranet?

It’s complementary. Intranets are typically a space for one-way comms, and Viva Engage provides the social environment perfect for two-way comms.

You can also embed Viva Engage into your intranet using web parts. They don’t have to work as separate channels – they can coexist and work together.

Which is best for pulse surveys - Viva Pulse or Viva Glint?

Viva Pulse is the best option for brief touchpoint surveys. It’s designed to get quick feedback from departments or project teams. It comes with some pre-built templates on topics like wellbeing, hybrid working and manager focus.

Viva Glint is more suited to your annual employee survey. It’s geared towards larger, organisation wide initiatives like cultural shifts or company strategy.

Can you deploy premium Viva features with Copilot turned off?

Yes. You don’t need to have Copilot in order to make the most of the other premium Viva features. 

If your organisation isn’t ready for Copilot yet, this can be managed by your IT admin.

Can you tailor multi-channel content in Viva Amplify?

Yes. Viva Amplify helps internal communicators streamline multi-channel campaigns. It lets you write content once and send it to multiple channels in one go, like Viva Engage and Outlook. But you can still tailor it to suit each channel – so your Viva Engage version may be shorter than your email version.

Does Viva Engage give you persona-based engagement analytics?

Yes. You can see analytics by department, locations etc. This is dependent on some background plumbing, so you may need to collaborate with your IT colleagues.

Is Microsoft Viva better than having a separate employee app?

We say so. It integrates with other apps your colleagues are already using – like Teams, SharePoint & Outlook – so it’s a much simpler experience.

It helps keep everything under one roof, which makes it easier for employees to navigate and can help keep down costs.

Ready to talk?

So are we. Get in touch today to discuss your Viva projects.