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 September 21, 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 365 Copilot in Viva Glint
Copilot in Viva Glint summarizes non-English survey comments. As a Copilot user, you’ll still interact with Copilot in English, but Copilot now summarizes non-English comments left by survey respondents. To gather the best feedback, encourage your employees to leave comments in their native language. Microsoft 365 Copilot currently supports 27 languages.
Learn how Microsoft HR uses Viva and Microsoft 365 Copilot to empower employees. Using a human-centric approach, Microsoft HR rolled out Microsoft 365 Copilot to their global HR organization. Read the blog about how Microsoft uses Viva to communicate, encourage skilling and development, and measure success.
New on your Viva Glint platform
360 feedback programs are included with all Viva Glint purchases! 360 feedback programs provide multiple perspectives for gathering insights into an employee's strengths and opportunities, with a long-term focus on improvement.
- Read about the 360 feedback feature and watch a 2-minute video detailing the process
- Share the Viva Glint 360 Subject Guide with your employees
- Read the blog
Export reports to PDFs easily and quickly. Now the Export feature in all Glint reports includes a full PDF experience with quick generation time and capabilities such as search, markup, highlight, and preview. You can also select which report sections to export - an enhancement our customers have been requesting! Read about PDF enhancements.
Navigate between Viva apps with ease. The Viva App Bar is a shared Microsoft component that enables Viva suite users to seamlessly discover and navigate between Viva apps they have purchased on the web. Viva Glint is integrating with these shared navigation elements to allow our users to have consistent experiences across Viva apps.
Enhanced data controller experience. Microsoft Viva Glint Administrators can decide how survey responses are handled for deleted users and how Glint reuses employee IDs over time. Learn about new user data options in the General Settings feature and its impact on user deletion.
Collaborate in Viva Glint across multiple tenants. Use Microsoft 365’s multitenant organization (MTO) feature to let survey takers and dashboard users from multiple tenants access Glint on a home tenant. Get a holistic view of your organization’s employee sentiment, no matter how complex your tenant configuration.
Upcoming events
Ask the Experts | October 15
Our next session in this popular series focuses on maximizing survey participation. Bring your questions! Register
AI Empowerment: How HR uses AI | October 22
Join us to hear how HR professionals use AI to work more effectively. This session covers key features, capabilities, and use cases for AI within the HR function, and recommendations on how it can help you be more effective in your role. Register
Events you may have missed
Catch up with recordings and recaps released since our last newsletter:
- September 2024 Town Hall: Read about and watch the recording from our first Town Hall. So much has happened and there is so much more to come!
- Viva Community Call on Workforce Transformation in the Era of AI: Our People Science and Marketing teams shared guidance on how to best use Viva to accelerate workforce transformation.
- Think like a People Scientist: How Microsoft used Viva Insights to understand organizational change. Deep dive into how your organization can benefit from using the organizational network analysis feature
For your managers
Do your managers feel equipped to understand and act on feedback? Viva People Science conducted a study with 700+ US-based managers across a variety of industries to gain a deeper understanding of their experience, from common practices to barriers when it comes to acting on employee feedback. Learn more about the critical findings.
Help managers build psychological safety within their teams. Share this new learning path with your managers to help them identify and cultivate psychological safety within their teams. Managers can earn their Microsoft Viva badge in psychological safety with Credly.
Exciting new resources for all stakeholders
Accelerate AI transformation with our new eBook. The state of AI change readiness, from the Viva People Science team, outlines findings on AI readiness, discusses implications, and provides practical guidance for leaders and HR on best to support people through change related to AI at work.
Build a holistic employee listening strategy. Take time to align with your internal stakeholders and complete our Holistic Listening Vision and Strategy Discovery Workbook from the Viva People Science team. This workbook helps you consider information important to your listening strategy and for tracking progress.
Coming soon: learn about the combined powers of Viva Glint, Viva Insights, and Viva Pulse. Together these apps measure employee engagement and productivity while giving you actionable insights. Keep your eyes out for a new communication where we will be highlighting features, customer success stories, and events featuring these products.
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