Microsoft introduced a new suite of innovative products, namely Microsoft Viva and Viva Amplify, with the goal of aiding organizations in boosting employee engagement and productivity. These are pivotal elements in the journey toward becoming a high-performance organization.
Skills in Viva
Microsoft has recently introduced Skills in Viva, a new AI-powered solution aimed at addressing challenges related to talent management within the workforce. Fundamentally, Skills in Viva seeks to close the divide between conventional work frameworks and the skills-centric future that organizations aspire to achieve.
Leveraging the extensive data accessible through the Microsoft Graph, the robust functionalities of the Viva platform, and a strong collaboration with LinkedIn’s Skills Graph, Skills in Viva provides an AI-driven, employee-validated methodology to drive high-performance organizations.
Strategic workforce planning
Leaders obtain real-time insights into their organization’s talent landscape, facilitating nimble workforce development and deployment. Skills in Viva introduces a fresh set of dashboards within Viva Insights, enabling leaders to visually analyze skill metrics, accessing information on organizational capabilities, gaps, and opportunities. Additionally, they can observe the distribution of skills across various organizational dimensions, such as teams, levels, and changes over time.
Upskilling and reskilling
Human Resources, Learning and Development teams, as well as managers, can leverage the insights provided by Skills in Viva to establish focused learning academies or customized learning paths for rapidly enhancing the skills of their teams in vital areas. Furthermore, through the enhanced skills inferencing in Viva, Viva Learning will intelligently recommend new learning content based on the skills that employees are actively developing or may express an interest in learning.
Skill discovery in the flow of work
Employees receive smart skill recommendations derived from signals within the Microsoft Graph, incorporating activities across Microsoft 365 and Viva. In Viva’s skills editor, employees have the ability to verify and oversee their skills, and these confirmed skills will be visible on their Microsoft 365 profile card. This profile card is conveniently accessible across various Microsoft 365 applications and services, including Outlook, Microsoft Teams, and others.
Microsoft Viva aims to align with customers at various stages of their skills journey, adopting an open and extensible approach to Skills in Viva. This approach facilitates interoperability with third-party applications that customers may already employ as their main skills records, fostering a comprehensive and unified skills perspective. Skills in Viva is set to enter private preview by the conclusion of 2023 and will be incorporated into the Microsoft Viva suite.
Amplify your communications impact with Viva Amplify
Employees receive smart skill recommendations derived from signals within the Microsoft Graph, incorporating activities across Microsoft 365 and Viva. In Viva’s skills editor, employees have the ability to verify and oversee their skills, and these confirmed skills will be visible on their Microsoft 365 profile card. This profile card is conveniently accessible across various Microsoft 365 applications and services, including Outlook, Microsoft Teams, and others.
Viva Amplify streamlines campaign management, publishing, and analytics, empowering business leaders and corporate communicators to establish meaningful connections with all employees.
Through multichannel publishing, communicators can swiftly disseminate information across various apps and devices tailored to specific employee groups with just a few clicks. This enables the creation and management of organization-wide or targeted campaigns from a centralized platform, facilitating the dissemination of information, fostering alignment, and inspiring action.
Build a high-performing organization using Microsoft Viva
Skills in Viva and Viva Amplify represent the latest additions to Microsoft Viva’s continuous growth and introduction of innovative features. Since its inception in February 2021, Viva has made a significant impact on the employee experience platform category, introducing groundbreaking technologies across workplace analytics and employee feedback, learning and knowledge management, goal setting and OKR management, as well as employee communications and communities.