Data storytelling with Viva Goals 🎯 Review Dashboards
Before Viva Goals existed, our team was stuck in the world of updating PowerPoint, Word, Excel with the status updates. In the early days of Viva Goals, we evolved into copying select Viva Goals visuals into a PowerPoint. At the very least, we could rely on Viva Goals being our source of truth and not worry about which version of the PowerPoint we were using. While the dashboard provides focus in the key metric and status, I find that metric owners still rely on visual storytelling to communicate context to our leaders. Here are 3 ways that I am using to streamline the OKR review board: 1. Customize the OKR List view to only show the necessarily columns. The minimum columns I include are the Owner, Status and progress, and Last Check-in note. Other columns are often redundant, such as the time period, for the quick review. 2. Embed the exact "live" visual needed Let's face it, maintaining content is a pain and you'll have to worry if you've captured the latest. I like to embed the specific slide in a PowerPoint that I need to call-out. There's a handy "Link to this slide" feature that you can use so that you don't accidentally show the default first page of a PowerPoint slide. I'm hoping our PowerPoint online team will improve the feature so that the editor framing doesn't show up by default in the future. 🙂 Another great candidate that I haven't explored yet would be a pre-filtered Power BI dashboard. 3. Create a navigation pane with more details. I add a navigation panel to related resources like a dashboard, or sub-team dashboard in either the "Key Updates" section of the OKR Detail widget or using a Text Block. What other tips do you have to make the Review Dashboards useful in your monthly or weekly reviews? Do you have a dashboard mock-up to share with me for inspiration?Scaling the Impact of AI Transformation for Your Organization with Viva Goals
As organizations begin to integrate AI solutions more heavily into their daily operations, it is essential for leaders to be able to demonstrate the business impact of digital transformation. Being able to scale the impact of AI transformation offers crucial insights into its effectiveness, enabling companies to pinpoint areas for enhancement, fine-tune their strategies, and ensure a positive return on investment. However, the question remains: How do you scale the impact of AI transformation? Join us on February 28th, at 8:30 am PST/11:30 am EST for a Viva Goals Office Hours 60-minute session, Scaling the Impact of AI Transformation for Your Organization with Viva Goals, with Viva Goals expert, Chris Rosa. During this session, Chris will share approaches to scale AI transformation success, build organizational alignment and demonstrate how to utilize Viva Goals to track and accurately report on the business impact. Featured in this session: - Customer story of how one Viva Goals customer tracked AI transformation across multiple teams and utilized Viva Goals to report on the business impact and organization alignment. - See a demo of the Copilot in Viva Goals dashboard and how you can use it to understand team productivity and how it is directly affecting the organization - Interactive polls throughout the presentation and an opportunity to ask Viva Goals experts all your questions! Don't miss it, register here!How Viva Goals and AI can Help You Kick Off Your New Year
Kick off the new year by unlocking the secrets of three transformative features within Viva Goals, designed to elevate and streamline your goal-setting process for unprecedented simplicity and efficiency. In our upcoming session, witness firsthand how Viva Goals aligns with your current practices. Explore three upcoming product releases that empower you to seamlessly integrate your existing goal-setting terminology, craft and enhance OKRs with the advanced capabilities of Copilot, and effortlessly communicate your progress to your team via email. Join us on January 24th, at 8 am PST/11 am EST for a Viva Goals Office Hours 60-minute session, How Viva Goals and AI can Help You Kick Off Your New Year. During this session, we will give you a preview of the top features being released this year! Featured in this session: - Discover the seamless adaptability of Viva Goals to your current workflow, and explore the product's recent enhancements that simplify the goal-setting process, making it effortlessly intuitive - Product Deep Dive: Preview upcoming product enhancements, featuring a detailed exploration of goals customization, the introduction of Copilot in Viva Goals, and sharing updates efficiently via email. - Interactive polls throughout the presentation and an opportunity to ask Viva Goals experts all of your burning questions Don't miss it, register here!Viva Goals Office Hours: 3 Ways to Improve Your Goal Management Process with Copilot in Viva Goals
AI can be a powerful tool to help optimize workflow, enhance productivity, and drive performance in organizations. Copilot in Viva Goals is now available in private preview – and we’re excited to show you how next-gen AI is making it even easier to create, refine, and share progress on goals. Join us on November 9th at 8 am PST/11 am EST for an inspiring 60-minute session, 3 Ways to Improve Your Goal Management Process with Copilot in Viva Goals. During this webinar, Mohanraj Ganesan, Principal Product Manager, Viva Goals, and Lucy Hitz, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Viva Goals, will share tactical ways to leverage Copilot in Viva Goals to make creating, managing, and reviewing team-level and organization-level goals more efficient and more impactful. We will feature:    - A live demo of Copilot in Viva Goals – including generating goal recommendations, refining suggestions with conversational AI, publishing progress summaries, and more. - What’s on the horizon for enhancements coming soon to Copilot in Viva Goals. - Interactive polls throughout the presentation and an open Q&A session to get all your questions answered by Viva Goals experts! Plus, an opportunity for you to test the goal areas you’re planning for, live in Copilot! You can register here for this Viva Goals Office Hours session.Viva Goals Office Hours: How to Build and Coach a Healthy Team with Viva Goals
Research has revealed that Managers play a pivotal role in fostering high-performance teams by adopting coaching as a leadership strategy – but how does laying the foundation of a healthy team culture result in high-performing teams? Join us on October 18th at 8 am PST/ 11 am EST for a 60-minute session, How to Build and Coach a Healthy Team with Viva Goals. During this webinar, featuring Vivian Ajetunmobi, Senior Program Manager, Viva Goals Growth, and Wendy Pat Fong, Senior Program Manager, Viva Goals Growth – they will share the tactical actions you can take to create an environment that fosters team culture to drive high performance for a successful OKR/Goal Program – including tips on how to utilize Viva Goals Dashboards to lead your team in achieving their goals. We will feature: - Deep dive into the three elements of a healthy team culture: Trust, Feedback, and Learning – and real-world examples of each. - Why coaching is important for your team and organizational success – and tips on how to drive team engagement and high performance using Viva Goals. - Interactive polls throughout the presentation and an open Q&A session to get all your questions answered by Viva Goals experts Don't miss out, register here!Art of the Possible: The future of goal-setting and management: Achieve more with Viva Goals
The goal-setting and management process is the foundation for organizational and individual accomplishment—but only 39 percent of employees understand their organization’s goals (2023 Forrester State of Goal-Setting Report). Goals are created to define and recognize success, but they are only useful when you document them clearly and refer to them regularly.  Your employees work in distributed, remote, and global environments. Having a single source of truth for goals that integrate with the tools they are already using and keeps organizational, team, and individual goals top-of-mind has never been more critical. Viva Goals can help with that.  Join us for an immersive view of Microsoft Viva Goals and learn how you can take advantage of next-gen AI features to enhance productivity and increase clarity around goals in your organization. We’ll also explore:  -The latest trends in goal-setting and goal management from the Forrester 2023 State of Goal-Setting Report  -The number one thing you can deliver to increase employee satisfaction, motivation, and achievement  -Innovations coming to Viva Goals  -Deploying objectives and key results and Viva Goals effectively in an organization—what it takes and key benefits  -How Viva Goals can help your organization, from strategy to execution with a live in-session demo Click here to register!Viva Goals Office Hours: How to Build a High-Performing Team with Viva Goals
Research has revealed that high-performing organizations share common practices that propel them to excellence. But where do you start and how do you know you are taking the right actions? Join us on September 20th at 8 am PST/ 11 am EST for a 60-minute session, How to Build a High-Performing Team with Viva Goals. During this enlightening webinar, we will unveil the secrets behind high-performing organizations, featuring Lucy Hitz, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Viva Goals - as she delves deep into the tactical actions you can take to create an environment that fosters employee engagement, builds productive teams, and cultivates resilience. We will feature:    - Real-world examples of how Viva Goals customers created high-performing teams through focus and alignment, team collaboration, and efficient processes - Viva Goals Product Deep Dive – Learn how to speed up integration enablement and set up organizational testing areas using the newest Viva Goals admin enhancements – plus see how Viva Goals is making sharing progress updates even easier with Review Dashboards - Interactive polls throughout the presentation and an open Q&A session to get all your questions answered by Viva Goals experts You can register here for this Viva Goals Office Hours session. See you there!  Viva Goals Webinar -- What to do in your first 30-days in Viva Goals!
Hey I'm Jake Singer, Viva Goals expert on the Viva Goals team, and next week on August, 23rd at 8am PST/11am EST I'm going to be walking through some tactical actions you should take in Viva Goals in the first 30 days to put you on the road to successfully leveraging the software! Want to learn more? Register here: https://aka.ms/AugustOH/socialViva Goals Office Hours LIVE: What to do in your first 30 days with Viva Goals
What can you do to make the most of Viva Goals in your first month? How does this set you up for future success as an employee, team, and entire organization? Join us on August 23rd at 8 am PST/ 11 am EST for a 60-minute session, What to do in your first 30 days with Viva Goals. During this interactive session, you will hear from Viva Goals expert, Jake Singer, Senior Program Manager, Viva Goals Customer Success and Incubation team, as he walks through the tactical actions you should take in Viva Goals in the first 30 days to put you on the road to successfully leveraging the software. We will feature: A step-by-step walk-through of Viva Goals, and a checklist of exactly what you should accomplish in the first 30 days of using Viva Goals. Viva Goals Product Deep Dive - First look at our new introductory in-product experience that will be released at the end of August. Interactive polls throughout the presentation and an open Q&A session to get all your "just starting" questions answered by Viva Goals experts. Register here, for this live webinar!
