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How Team upload works when uplod team with existing name
We are working on scenario for client, they need to know the scenario if they apload now team via excel upload and they upload new team, but in Viva Goals already exist Team with exactly the same name. From manual we do not see what exactly happens then. Any detailed description? Have you tested such situation? Thank you! RomanVisibility of comments in Viva Goals in the organization
Client considering how all comments in Viva Goals (in checking, closing comments etc.) across all organization for all employees. On one hand side organization want to support transparency on the other hand they need to protect personal information in case that personal information is entered. HELP NEEDED: What is Viva Goals approach/recommendations in protecting visibility of comments for other if they include comments with personal feedback etc.Now Available: Export your goals to PowerPoint
Hi everyone! We are excited to announce that you can now export your OKRs to PowerPoint so you can save time and energy preparing for your business rhythms. More information can be found in this blog post. Please take a moment to try it and let us know your feedback. Thanks!Coming this Wednesday....
Sneak peek of a slide from our Viva Goals Office Hours happening later this week (How to Build a High-Performing Team with Viva Goals)...join us for specific, tactical examples re: how to use Viva Goals to build a happier, more impactful team and organization. Register here!Upcoming AMA: Driving a Healthy OKR Program with Viva Goals. Leadership Buy-In and Markers of Succes
Join us for a 45-minute Tech Community YouTube Live event with Mike Berg, Partner Director of Data Science on Microsoft's IDEAs team! During this session, Mike will share his insights on building a visible and successful Viva Goals program as well as share tactical tips to getting buy-in from leadership! Don't miss out on this opportunity to level up your skills and drive success in your organization! Mark your calendars and set a reminder - we'll see you there! RSVP now :right_arrow: https://aka.ms/viva-healthyokrs #VivaGoals #LeadershipTips #SuccessStrategies
ROBs: Why they can Make or Break a Team
Earlier this quarter, I worked with key leaders to draft up a rhythm of business that we would commit to for the quarter and then actively communicated it out to the team. While this may seem like a rather banal matter of business, it has had significant impact on our team culture, our ability to execute our goals, and overall team morale. As we planned the upcoming quarter, we vacillated over what to do about August (notoriously difficult to schedule because of so many over-lapping vacations). How could we make an effective plan without losing momentum on key projects? Interestingly, recent employee surveys had shown that people wanted more time freed up for them to prioritize upskilling and learning; this was one of our team culture initiatives for the quarter. Ultimately, we decided to cancel all standing meetings the last two weeks of August, draw up a optional learning curriculum for employees, and give them time to prioritize learning. Employees also had the extra time to catch up on outlying work and restore themselves before jumping in to a busy September. By planning ahead and communicating this out to the team, we were able to maintain momentum on our goals while prioritizing team well-being.Viva Goals Adoption and Success Momentum!
As part of story telling Viva Goals strategies and benefits leveraged by our, HR Digital Employee Experiences (HRDEE) Team, through opportunity and engagement, we are excited to evangelize, apply and share learning experiences with others, and the energy is contagious! Through personal and interactive engagement with customers such as HRSDEE, CELA Accessibility and LinkedIn, dependencies on Viva Goals OKRs, dependencies and adoption success stories continue to gain momentum, while active users and satisfaction increase month over month. Tell us your story and let us know what you need! We are here to partner with you and others as we tell the HR story of employee experience success using Viva Goals to align team objectives, provide employees with a sense of purpose and focus for achieving measurable success and leverage the benefits of adaptability, transparency and growth all in one application solution. We are here to help answer your questions or help guide your evaluation in partnership with others through shared experiences!The HR Digital Employee Experience Team experience and value leveraging Viva Goals
Our mission is all about enabling teams at Microsoft and external customers with awesome Viva customer experiences and that includes Viva Goals, providing a high level of value to achieve more across your team. Viva Goals facilitates critical alignment across the organization to establish key objectives, helping teams move together with greater purpose, while enabling focus and transparency of contributions and key results across team to thrive and achieve successful goals. Part of our evangelism of Viva Goals is about telling our lived story from an HR Digital Employee Experience perspective and the high level of value we've experienced in the one slide summary below. We are committed to help advise, answer questions and guide your experience at any phase in evaluation, test or adoption to discover what Viva Goals can do for you and your team. Please reach out at any time!Viva Goals Office Hours: Communications Planning for Your OKR Program AMA
Do you have questions about creating a strong and well-executed OKR communication strategy for team-level and leadership-level OKR planning meetings - including, creating a work back strategy for monthly reviews, quarterly closeouts, and annual financial planning? If the answer is yes - join us on this thread, on May 31st from 10:00 am - 10:30 am PST as Erin Donoso answers any questions you have about communications planning for your OKR program - post questions below in the thread and Erin will be here live on May 31st answering them! See you all then!Three Best Practices for Strategic Alignment
Viva Goals is a tremendous piece of software for strategic alignment. It makes your strategy functional to cascaded individuals, transparent to the organization, and actionable against the key results you input to measure. What’s more: the technology is straightforward and easy to use. #itMayAsWellBeAnAdButItsNot But what does it mean to use the software? Here’s a few best practices as you get started. It’s as much about the process as it is the result. I work for McChrystal Group, and for years our teams have been helping organizations build their analog plan on a page. A strategic document acting as a written record north star of where the organization is headed and what it wants to accomplish. Note that this is “helping them build their document…,” not because we can’t do it for them, but because the process of aligning leaders in an organization (e.g., voicing their goals and limitations, prioritizing and deprioritizing) is as much a part of the synthesis as is the typing it into Word or PowerPoint. The alignment process is not socializing a document and convincing leaders to execute on it; when done correctly, alignment is achieved in the process of writing of composing the document. The same is true for Viva Goals. Using the software is about the process of identification and prioritization as much as it is about the key punches and clicks into the platform. It’s as much about the process as it is the result (again)? Successful organizations who use their strategy would see Viva Goals as an operating system for their business. The platform houses the single source of truth for progress towards objectives and what needs to be done next. Organizations should create what McChrystal Group calls an Operating Rhythm – but you can call it whatever you want. The intentional and purposeful set of meetings cadenced weekly, monthly, quarterly, and yearly – to perform the Goals check-ins, report ups, and cross-functional awareness briefs to push the strategy forward. A good OKR process flags to all levels things that are working and should be replicated, as well as those barriers that may need support to overcome. The process of establishing an Operating Rhythm that works for your business, adapting it as necessary, and having the discipline to adhere to it is how you leverage strategy for action and stay aligned to it. Remember what the purpose of a priority is. If everything is a priority, then nothing is a priority. If you want your company to align around a strategy, try to be parsimonious – you can be detailed, but try not to add too many main goals, or else you run the risk of making your strategy a muddled to-do list. People do well at saying what they will do, but they don’t do so well at saying what they’ll stop doing. There’s plenty of space to assign tasks, objectives and key result owners if you choose to engage with Viva Goals as you cascade your priorities down. However, if your top-level priorities number as many as 9 or 10 (or in some cases, even fewer), senior leadership may not have aligned around one mission. Consider thinking of a simple framework to build the strategy around – perhaps a few major buckets like your people, your product, and your customers. You can still cascade within them, and your major strategies can have aspirational elements. But if your goal is to align the organization, muddying your priorities can muddy your peoples’ vision. Just because it’s simple and direct doesn’t mean a major strategic goal isn’t powerful. If people can align around it, and it can be used to drive action, it’s far more effective than something intricate and complex that few understand and fewer can execute. Not too much complexity here: remember process and purpose above all. Did I miss something you think is important? Keeping it too simple? What has been successful and unsuccessful when driving alignment for you?
