Microsoft Viva Company Growth.
Bring purpose, knowledge sharing and employee learning into the flow of work.
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Engage
Build a stronger workforce by creating personal networks and start two-way conversations between leaders and employees.
Align
Create impact on business priorities and strategic objectives by driving action through data-driven analytics on employee engagement.
Learn
Bring training into the flow of work so your people can learn when it's convenient and thrive at work with knowledge and learning tools.
Forrester’s Total Economic Impact study revealed that Viva delivers an average 3x return on investment.
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Collective knowledge with Viva Topics.
On average, it takes around 9 minutes to return to a fully focused state after a disruption. This context switching interrupts workflows and delays projects. You can make your processes more efficient by implementing Viva Topics, an AI-powered knowledge management system that sorts your information into topics and knowledge maps.
New starts can utilise Topics to quickly familiarise themselves with past projects and overcome blockers like company-specific acronyms. By hovering over the term, they can find a definition and link to the associated topic so they can start working on high-impact tasks quickly.
Viva Topics is strengthened with contributions from subject experts within the company. Boost motivation and enable collaborative learning in the apps people use daily such as Teams, SharePoint and Outlook.
Discover and share expertise
Answers in Viva gives employees the ability to independently search for the answers they need, accessing people and knowledge from anywhere in the organisation. This is essential to bridge the gap between departments and locations and build an active digital network of knowledge experts.
When people view a Topics page and see a colleague’s name, they can reach out to them in Teams. Answers in Viva makes it easy to connect to people with the right expertise for new collaborations.
By adopting Viva, you’ll surface more relevant knowledge in-context so your people don’t need to leave what they’re doing to sift through unorganised files. Ensuring they have access to the most up-to-date, consistent information and minimising time lost due to miscommunication and errors.
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Connect your people with your vision
34% of leaders lack the necessary tools to monitor goals and effectively keep their direct reports motivated and engaged. Goals provides end-to-end goal management by embedding the OKR framework into the employee experience. Helping you follow up on goals to ensure productivity and accountability.
Viva Goals connects your people to the wider organisation, their colleagues and business strategy. Unite your employees with a shared mission, allowing them to assess how they contribute to overarching goals through their daily work.
The Forrester 2023 State of Goal Setting Report found that 78% of employees confidently understand their personal goals but this drops to only 39% for company goals. It’s essential to clearly define goals and outcomes for maximum productivity. Goals increases your people’s sense of purpose and fulfilment in their role.
Establish a culture of continuous learning
Companies with a strong learning and development strategy retain staff for an average of 5 years, compared to just 3 years when reskilling options are limited. Give your people the knowledge to be successful at what they do while re-energising them.
Learning is most meaningful when it targets individual needs. With Viva Learning you can create personalised learning pathways and tailor resources to their career goals.
Microsoft’s Work Trend Index Report found that 61% of employees are more engaged when learning initiatives are an integrated part of their workday. This is where Viva comes in – encouraging social learning in Teams and your intranet and making learning a core part of everyone’s job.
By adopting Viva Learning, you can demonstrate your company’s commitment to ongoing skills development and attract and retain top talent. Ensuring your frontline workers aren’t neglected and have the same access to professional development.
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Empowering your employees to be at their best.
As our culture evolves to accommodate remote and hybrid workers, this means ensuring an inclusive environment for your staff. Every employee should feel connected, no matter who or where they are. Step in, Microsoft Viva. A powerful tool to enhance your employee engagement and productivity.
ThinkShare Experience.
Implemented SharePoint Intranet to transform employee engagement.
ThinkShare worked closely with Carta’s Marketing Manager to design a bespoke SharePoint intranet that connected Carta employees to both internal messaging and the resources they need to work more effectively.
Deployed a SharePoint intranet to strengthen relationships.
Think APS where enthused by the deployment of their new intranet that connected dispersed employees to the wider organisation. Responsive design was utilised for a mobile app, so the solution was equally useful when working away from the office.
Utilising Microsoft Viva Topics to Strengthen Workforce.
Our client was managing the knowledge of best practices through a disparate employee base, this was becoming increasingly challenging. Our solution was to create a Knowledge Centre that could be curated and managed by topic champions.
What ThinkShare can do for your organisation.
We will take the time to understand your company-specific requirements and what would work best for you. We then advise you on which, if not all, of the Microsoft Viva modules that would best support your business. From here, we deploy the desired modules to your Microsoft Teams set-up and advise you on how best to utilise these solutions to support employee experience and business objectives.
As Microsoft Partners and fully trained experts, we have completed many successful projects for a range of clients in public and private sectors. We work with you to understand your needs and build a solution that solves problems and boosts business efficiency. We also offer ongoing consultation post-deployment, so if ever you require additional help we are always here.
Mhairi is one of ThinkShare’s Client Success Managers. She has extensive background in managing projects and is passionate about providing the best solutions for our clients – success is in the title! She specialises in intranet projects and has an ability to drive projects forward, even within organisations who are resistant to change. Book a call with Mhairi to get your intranet project on track and unlock the full potential for your organisation.