Category: Viva Blog Posts
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What is Viva Topics?
Viva Topics is one of the five modules in Microsoft Viva, which Microsoft released in 2021. It acts as a Wikipedia for business by presenting business users with a Topic card when they see a word or acronym they don’t recognise. Topic cards can be found in SharePoint online and will soon be available in […]
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What’s new: Viva Goals
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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How Praise Works in Microsoft Teams
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 a […]
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What is Viva Insights for Managers?
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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What Is Viva Insights and How Does It Help Me?
If you use Microsoft 365, you may find emails and Teams notifications at the end of the workday from something called Viva Insights. Viva Insights is an app in Microsoft Teams that provides you with recommendations to improve work habits based on your Microsoft 365 data. For example, if you have a lot of meetings booked in your diary, Viva Insights might recommend […]
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What is Viva Learning and How Do I Add it to Teams
Viva Learning is one of the four modules of Microsoft Viva, an employee experience platform built into Teams. Microsoft Viva Learning is a learning app you can add into Microsoft Teams and provides you access to free online training from LinkedIn and Microsoft. If your organisation works with an existing training provider, you might find […]
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What is Microsoft Viva and how is it useful to me as an employee?
Microsoft Viva is a new employee experience platform that has been recently launched by Microsoft. Viva is split into 4 pillars which are 4 different tools that can be used via Microsoft Teams. Some parts of Viva come included with Microsoft 365 licensing and some require additional licensing costs. The 4 pillars are: Viva Connections […]