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.