Microsoft announced last year Viva, a platform for employee engagement that includes four modules: Viva Connections, Viva Topics, Viva Insights, and Viva Learning. By promoting culture, learning, knowledge, and wellbeing, each module enhances the wellbeing of employees. Microsoft have added a new module to Viva called Viva Goals. What is Viva Goals? Viva Goals is […]
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Gathering employee ideas is a huge opportunity to hear from new perspectives, improve business processes, and create a culture of innovation inside your organisation. Luckily, Microsoft Teams has an app for that! The app is called Employee Ideas and is a PowerApp added as a Tab in a Channel. To add the app as a
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Praise is a feature in Microsoft Teams and Viva Insights that enables employees to praise colleagues. You can send praise in a few different ways. First, you can send praise in a Teams Channel, by either typing “@praise” in a new conversation or clicking on the badge icon: You can also do this in
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Microsoft’s Whiteboard app has been available to use in Teams meetings for some time, but only recently has Microsoft added some great, new features to improve the Whiteboard experience in Teams. The Whiteboard is accessible in a Teams meeting by clicking on share and then sharing the whiteboard app. The first thing to notice in the new
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Since Microsoft Teams has been around for five years (yes, FIVE years already!) I wanted to write a blog on how Teams has impacted my career and life. Five years ago, I worked as a Customer Success Manager for my current company, Core. My job was to share new technology with our customers and help
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Many of us may be using Viva Insights (or receive the daily briefing emails) for our habits and insights. But there is an upgrade available to provide managers with insights into their teams’ habits. The manager insights are an additional Viva Insights license and provide managers with a “my team” tab, so they can get
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Customers often ask me what Teams apps they should be using. There are over 1000 apps available in Microsoft Teams, so I can’t say I’ve tried them all! But I wanted to share the four apps I regularly use in Microsoft Teams. A much better way of finding out which apps you need is to
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I am delighted to have been awarded the Microsoft MVP award. MVP stands for Most Valuable Professional and is an award given to technology experts who passionately share their knowledge with the community. There are only 4000 MVPs worldwide, so it\’s a real honour to be among them! My award is for Office 365 Apps
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With Microsoft Teams, you can sync files between your computer and the cloud, so you can get to your files from anywhere. Synced files will appear in your file explorer on your computer. If you add, change, or delete a file or folder in your file explorer, then the changes sync to Teams and vice
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External access in Microsoft Teams is available to organisations that need to communicate and chat with people outside the organisation. External chat is handy if you need to communicate with members of the public, partners, suppliers or customers. Depending on if your admin has enabled it, you can search for someone external in a Team
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