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Recommendations for employee engagement app in Microsoft Teams?
Someone in this forum recommended Teamflect to us a while back, and we've been very happy with it. The integration with Teams has been really smooth. We were initially looking for a goals tool to replace Viva Goals, but we started using the engagement features as well.
- Engagement surveys and recognition badges can be sent inside Teams chat.
- They added rewards after we started using and it's been pretty intuitive
- There are also anonymous feedback and suggestion box features too.
I'm not a huge fan of using one software for goals, another for engagement, and yet another for performance mgmt etc. So the all-in-one thing really works for us. Give it a look.
Hi, the answer is Viva Engage.
From my experience, these are some tips to help you succeed with a project like this.
1) It's essential to maintain read/write/create policies to encourage engagement.
2) Don't limit yourself to surveys: encourage employees to share experiences, useful information, and convivial insights.
3) A social intranet is earned media: don't use it like a traditional channel. A tool only works if you use it to the best of its ability.
4) Don't be afraid of losing control of conversations (spoiler alert, you already lost it a long time ago): no employee is stupid enough to share inappropriate content publicly.
5) You have the opposite problem: knowing your employees well, their potential, their interests, their aspirations, their leadership skills.
This is valuable and strategic information for a company, which no consulting firm will ever be able to provide you with, or which, at best, you will obtain from the employees themselves when it is too late.
6) Listen. Always.
7) Keep in mind that listening must translate into action, otherwise engagement will disappear and you will lose the information you need.
8) Continually ask yourself what else you can do to maintain the current engagement or improve a dissatisfaction.
9) Choose the right tone of voice for your goal (informal is best).
10) Don't be afraid to experiment with both the platform and the content. Sometimes you'll propose something that won't please everyone, but if you don't, you'll never know if you've done enough.
Good luck.