Viva Goals - Product Tips!

Hi everyone!

 

We're excited to meet you all again with some product tips. For those who are seeing this post for the first time - this is Meena, a Senior Program Manager from the Viva Goals team. I've been part of the product for the past 2+ years. We thought you might appreciate some quick and handy product tips to enhance your everyday experience with Viva Goals. 

 

Last month, our customers have been mostly talking about Creating/Managing OKRs, Purchasing Viva Goals licenses, Trial Expiries/Extensions, Integrations, and Admin Configurations. Below are a few tips if you have questions about the same features:

 

1. Managing team members - Have you been looking to manage the team members from within the Admin > Members section? If yes, that's not the right place to do it. You can view all members of a team (individual members and groups) by navigating to the team page and selecting team members from the options on the top right corner of the page. From there, you can add members to the team, and promote team admins. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/viva/goals/managing-team-members#managing-members-for-a-team where you can read more about this.
   
   
2. OKR Contributions - Wondering why your child objectives and projects are not contributing to the progress of the parent objective? Child objectives and projects won't contribute to the objective by default and contributions will always have to be manually changed. You can check out our article https://learn.microsoft.com/en-gb/viva/goals/configuring-okrs for more information.
   
   
3. Parent objective not closed though child KRs are closed - Did you also come across this? Yes, this is the behavior by design. The parent objectives have to be closed manually as they don't close automatically upon closure of the child KRs.

Thanks for reading and have a great day! We'll come back with new tips next month.