News to Know - Volume 1, Edition 12
Welcome to the Viva Glint newsletter. These recurring communications coincide with platform releases and enhancements to help you get the most out of the Viva Glint product. You can access the current newsletter and past editions on the Viva Glint blog. Glint released its latest new features and enhancements on November 16, 2024. Scheduled monthly releases and regular maintenance are how we best serve our customers. Your dashboard provides date and timing details two or three days before releases. See our future release and downtime dates. Follow along with what features are ahead: Viva Glint product roadmap. Microsoft Ignite starts today! Attend our biggest customer and partner event of the year! Today through Friday, November 22! Get ready to achieve more with the power of the Microsoft Cloud, Microsoft Copilot, and latest innovations for AI transformation. Discover solutions to help you modernize and manage your own intelligent apps, safeguard your business and data, accelerate productivity, and connect with partners while growing your community. Register to attend sessions now. New on your Viva Glint platform Bring Microsoft Viva Glint and Microsoft Viva Insights together. Integrating your Glint employee survey scores (how employees feel) with Insights data (how people work) helps identify your teams’ opportunities and strengths. Leaders, HR analysts, and stakeholders can use this integration to better understand their people’s full work experience. This integration has moved from its preview stage to worldwide availability. You can learn how to get started here, and you can read our blog overview here. Now admins can edit a survey question or statement while a survey is active. With this release, you can adjust a live survey if needed and inform survey takers of the update. Follow these guidelines for editing a live survey item. To make other changes to a live survey, follow this guidance. New Enhancements on your Viva Glint platform Expanded access for 360 feedback providers. Use Viva Glint 360 feedback to give employees multiple perspectives on their strengths and opportunities. In addition to accessing 360 feedback invites by authenticating with Microsoft Entra ID, feedback providers can now give feedback by accessing personalized links in email invites. Learn more about 360 feedback, program settings, and survey access methods. Leverage a Microsoft partner In today's fast-paced business environment, using the full potential of Microsoft Viva Glint can be a game-changer for your organization. We offer you the option to work with a certified Microsoft Partner enabled for Viva Glint. Partners are certified experts with deep knowledge of Microsoft products and services. Viva Glint enabled partners bring experience in employee engagement consulting to help you design and implement effective listening strategies. They're available to you no matter your company size or Microsoft service model. Learn more about our Viva Glint specialist partners and connect with them for services. Upcoming events Think like a People Scientist: Enhancing engagement and productivity at Derivco with Viva Insights | December 3 Dean Napier, Industrial Psychologist and Lead Analyst at Derivco, will deep dive into how Derivco uses Viva Insights to understand and drive positive change in the employee experience and productivity. This session is for customers wanting to learn more about Viva Insights, as well as to hear about our latest People Science research. Register here. Customer Cohort sessions | December 5 & 12 Connect with like-minded customers at our quarterly customer cohort sessions by industry. For information and registration, see our blog post. Ask the Experts | December 10 Our next session in this series focuses on Employee Lifecycle survey and feedback essentials. Register. Learning Circles | January 29 Announcing our Learning Circles redesign! Open to all customers, these provide connection with like-minded industry professionals to share knowledge, experiences, and challenges related to the employee experience. To join a Learning Circles group or learn about our redesign, read this blog or register for the event. New Microsoft Viva blogs 3 Steps to Build Psychological Safety on Your Team | Psychological safety is a key component of healthy team dynamics. Unfortunately, many managers don’t know what they can do to help cultivate it on their teams. There are, however, practical actions managers can take to begin building psychological safety on their teams. We’ve summarized three of these actions below. Read the blog.Viva Glint and Insights Integration Now Generally Available
Improving employee engagement and productivity continue to be top priorities within winning organizations. Oftentimes though, organizations view these initiatives in silos. Employee sentiment surveys assess engagement levels across the company while workplace analytics help leaders understand collaboration and organizational patterns more broadly. The way people work (e.g. time spent in meetings, after-hour work, etc.) impacts how people feel (e.g. feelings towards leadership and work-life balance) and vice-versa. What if we could look at these data sets together instead of in isolation? Our new integration between Viva Glint and Viva Insights brings employee engagement data and behavioral metrics together to give organizations a holistic view of the employee experience. Now, HR, leaders and HR analysts can see how organizational patterns relate to employee sentiment for deeper insights on engagement and productivity. This integration is available now in both Viva Glint and Viva Insights. A holistic view into the employee experience Combining Viva Glint engagement data with Viva Insights behavioral metrics provides a deeper understanding and a more complete, nuanced picture of the employee’s experience. Use this combined view to: Confirm hypotheses about the employee experience - Investigate hypotheses you may have about the employee experience by looking at both sentiment and action metrics. Explore whether what you are hearing in the sentiment data aligns with what you are seeing in the work patterns data, or not, and what those findings tell you about the employee experience. Develop actions to improve the employee experience - Make changing the employee experience feel more tangible by identifying work patterns and trends across sentiment. When you see differences in sentiment aligning with differences in work patterns, you can determine what actions may potentially impact the employee experience you hope to improve. Get clarity with combined data - Add more context to the employee experience by considering differences in observed work patterns. You may find that sentiment and work patterns’ metrics alone provide only one aspect of the story. Looking at both together can help to provide more clarity on the lived experience of employees. Anticipate needs through established relationships -Over time, as you understand the relationships between workplace patterns and employee sentiment, leverage ongoing measurement of pattern data to anticipate needs before your next survey deployment. Understanding potential indicators of a change in experience allows you to better anticipate employee needs and deploy early interventions. Preview customers have used the integration to better understand how work patterns relate to engagement across teams, geographies and for specific scenarios like return to work initiatives. For HR and leaders: How the integration works in Viva Glint Viva Glint is designed for HR and leaders to understand the drivers of engagement based on your employee listening strategy. After an engagement survey, HR and leaders use Viva Glint to understand results, explore feedback and develop an action plan based on recommendations from the platform. The integration of behavioral metrics from Insights now allows HR and leaders to see how different workplace patterns may impact feelings of engagement to develop more impactful improvement opportunities. From the Viva Glint dashboard, users can see how different behavioral metrics relate to overall engagement. This view gives you a quick snapshot into how workplace patterns, for example manager 1:1 time in the screenshot below, impacts engagement scores. You can toggle the Viva Insights metrics to see the impact of other behavioral metrics. We recommend viewing these behavioral metrics based on the hypotheses or initiatives you have impacting the employee experience. The Viva Glint Heatmap report offers a more detailed view of how different behavioral metrics impact the specific drivers of engagement. In the example below, you can see how different levels of manager 1:1 time relate to sentiment around feelings of belonging, career growth and more. Here we’re highlighting how there is a sweet spot of 15-60 minutes of manager 1:1 time towards feelings of empowerment. Viva Glint also captures employee feedback from the comments left in surveys. You can now filter comments by behavioral metrics to see what people are saying in relation to specific workplace patterns. In the example below we’re looking at the key themes from employees with less than 15 minutes of manager 1:1 time a week. Viewing the comments associated with your analysis gives you more context and oftentimes suggestions, to create better solutions. For analysts: How the integration works in Viva Insights Viva Insights helps HR analysts and their leadership teams understand and improve working patterns across the organization based on collaboration data from Microsoft 365. The Analyst Workbench within Viva Insights is a powerful tool to build custom queries, use pre-built templates and create reports for analysis and knowledge sharing. Analysts can use the new Glint and Organizational Insights report in Viva Insights to create PowerBI reports that combine engagement scores from Glint surveys with the behavioral metrics captured in Viva Insights. Analysts use this report to: Create combined reports at any time, regardless of when an engagement survey was conducted. View changes to workplace patterns before and after a survey See correlations between sentiment and behaviors Provide access to specific sets of data for different users via Partitions Within the Viva Insights Analyst Workbench, analysts can find a new Glint and Organizational Insights report. Analysts can use the Exploration page to discover how specific Viva Glint survey questions interact with behavioral metrics from Viva Insights. Analysts can also filter these views further by organizational attributes like tenure, role, team, geography and other attributes from your data files. Once you’ve gotten the right view, analysts can view the following: See the strength of relationship between the Viva Glint survey question and behavioral metric View changes to behavioral metric before and after a Glint survey See a breakdown of metrics by favorability In the example below you can see how the analyst has created a report to see how collaboration sentiment relates to internal network size. Getting started and resources We’re very excited to bring the capabilities of Viva Glint and Viva Insights together in this integration. With these combined insights, HR, leaders, and analysts can understand the employee experience in a more holistic way and take better actions to improve engagement and productivity. The integration between Viva Glint and Viva Insights requires licenses for both products. Below are a list of additional resources to get you started: The Viva Glint + Viva Insights Playbook: Provides strategic guidance for setting up your analyses and interpreting results. Learn articles for Viva Insights in Viva Glint: Covers prerequisites and setup instructions. Learn articles for Viva Glint in Viva Insights: See a demo and setup instructions.Viva Glint Learning Circles are back!
Our Learning Circles program is back and better than ever! Do you want to connect with like-minded employee experience professionals and share learnings and experiences to improve your listening strategy? Whether you're a seasoned Viva Glint user or are just starting your journey, Learning Circles provides an opportunity to make connections with fellow customers who share similar interests. We have remodeled our program to add specific meeting times and more structure to the conversation, while still maintaining space for you to learn from your peers. Here’s what you can expect: Registration: We’ll be scheduling one meeting per quarter. Several weeks before the event, we’ll be sending out the registration link for that meeting in multiple places such as our newsletter, blog, and posting it to our community events page. Our first meeting of 2025 is on January 29th. Click here to register for the event. Topics: While you’re registering, we also ask that you tell us which topics you’d most like to discuss. Our facilitators will bring the topics that are most frequently mentioned to the live discussion. Live discussion: We’ll start the meeting as a larger group, and our goal is to set up breakout rooms based on the most popular topics. These discussions can include any broad topics like understanding how to create a holistic listening strategy to more feature-based topics like setting up languages in Viva Glint. You can choose which room you’d like to attend based on the topic you’d most like to discuss. Then, towards the end of the meeting, we’ll come back together as the larger group and share key learnings with each other. For confidentiality reasons, we won't be recording the calls, but we'll schedule the session to accommodate as many of our global customers as possible. We look forward to seeing you there!Maximize Your Viva Glint Experience with a Microsoft Partner
In today's fast-paced business environment, leveraging the full potential of Microsoft Viva Glint can be a game-changer for your organization. To do so, we offer you the option to work with a certified Microsoft Partner enabled for Viva Glint.
How Glint enriches the Microsoft Viva experience
In July 2023, Glint moved from its home at LinkedIn to join the Microsoft Viva products providing a comprehensive approach to improving employee engagement and performance for organizations. It’s been a year of incredible accomplishments that have supported Glint legacy customers - and new Viva customers - to achieve their business and people goals using a human-centric approach.
360 - Are Admins Able to Add Raters On Behalf of Subjects?
Prior to the migration to Viva, the documentation for Glint 360 assessments suggested it was possible to administratively add raters. I don't see a way to do that in the program set up. Is this possible? We had been looking forward to letting subjects search and find their own unlike our former tools. We did one test with the Entra/Azure search and we decided it was going to frustrate our leaders.
