Microsoft Viva Goals
Microsoft Viva Goals is a tool that helps teams and companies set and track their goals. It shows everyone what they need to achieve, helps them stay focused, and makes it easier to see how they’re doing over time. It’s all about teamwork and making sure everyone’s on the same page.
What is Microsoft Viva Goals?
Microsoft Viva Goals is a part of the Microsoft Viva suite, designed to enhance employee engagement and productivity by aligning individual objectives with organisational goals.
Launched in 2022, it emphasises a culture of transparency, accountability, and collaboration, allowing teams to create, track, and manage their goals seamlessly within the Microsoft ecosystem. The platform utilises the Objectives and Key Results (OKR) framework to help organisations establish clear objectives, measurable outcomes, and prioritise tasks effectively.
By integrating with tools like Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, and Outlook, Viva Goals ensures that employees remain connected and informed about their progress and that of their peers, promoting a sense of community and shared purpose.
Additionally, its analytics capabilities provide real-time insights into goal progress and performance metrics, enabling teams to adjust their strategies as needed.
As organisations increasingly recognise the importance of aligning personal and professional aspirations with broader business objectives, Microsoft Viva Goals stands out as a robust solution that fosters continuous feedback, development, and engagement, ultimately contributing to enhanced team performance and organisational success.
With its focus on integration, insights, and engagement, Microsoft Viva Sales aims to empower sales teams to increase their efficiency and drive better business outcomes in a dynamic sales landscape.
Experienced through Microsoft Teams and Azure DevOps, Viva Goals will help you and your team manage goals and objectives in order to achieve better outcomes more quickly. Viva Goals has been designed to enhance employee experience and create a more positive and agile workplace.
What are the key features of Viva Goals?
Using tools integrated directly into Microsoft Teams, you’ll be able to create goals, measure results and showcase goals and outcomes as a team. These are some of the integrated work management and data tools of Viva Goals:
Drive Results
With custom dashboards, your team can measure the impact of their work and identify areas for improvement. Viva Goals simplifies reporting, generating insights and keeping progress on track to help drive results.
Team Goals
Help your team collaborate on tasks, stay organised and manage their goals thanks to direct integration between Microsoft Teams and Viva Goals. Employees can share links to live dashboards and increase visibility into task progress.
Align Tasks to Objectives
and Key Results (OKR)
Create goal-setting frameworks like OKR to help your team stay focused and prioritise tasks. OKRs dynamically update, making it easier to visualise responsibilities and develop strategic pathways to achieve goals.
Why use Viva Goals?
Viva Goals connects teams to their organisation’s strategic priorities, offering employees clear direction and purpose across all levels of the business.
Having clearly defined personal targets, as well as more clarity around company goals, helps to enable focus, create impact, and inspire continuous improvement. With the shift towards remote and hybrid working, it’s more important than ever that employees feel connected to their team and aligned to organisation-wide strategies.
Viva Goals enables employees to collaborate on tasks, share insights and outcomes with others and participate in group activities. This ensures that everyone in your team is on the same page, even when working remotely.
Get in touch with CompanyNet
CompanyNet are the leading experts in Microsoft 365, and we would be happy to guide you through your journey in Microsoft Viva Goals. The CompanyNet team has more than 20 years’ experience of creating Microsoft digital workplaces that really work. We’re a tight-knit team that delivers results for customers including Scottish Water, Mencap, the Student Loans Company, Walt Disney, Tesco Bank, the Scottish Housing Regulator and many more.
If you’re keen to take the next step with Microsoft Viva Goals, drop us a line today.
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