Right this moment on the HR Know-how Convention, we unveiled new capabilities in our worker expertise platform, Microsoft Viva, together with a brand new AI-powered abilities service and the final availability of Viva Amplify, a multichannel workforce communications hub. These new product improvements are designed to assist organizations enhance worker engagement and productiveness, that are vital to changing into a high-performance group (HPO).1
Microsoft Viva Amplify
Centralize marketing campaign administration, publishing, and reporting to succeed in and interact staff.
Saying Expertise in Viva
We’re excited to announce a brand new AI-powered Expertise in Viva service that may assist organizations perceive workforce abilities and gaps, and ship customized skills-based experiences all through Microsoft 365 and Viva purposes for workers, enterprise leaders, and HR.
With speedy developments in AI, the best way corporations handle and develop expertise is reaching an inflection level—job necessities are altering, new ability units are wanted, and roles are evolving. The truth is, 82 p.c of leaders say their staff will want new abilities to be ready for the expansion of AI. On the similar time, studying isn’t maintaining with the tempo of change and innovation. 60 p.c of individuals say they don’t at the moment have the fitting capabilities to get their work finished.2
Workers will want sooner, seamless entry to new abilities to help new methods of working for an AI-powered future. And organizations would require agility to shift from conventional job-based expertise administration apply to a skills-based method. By using AI-powered abilities expertise, HR and enterprise leaders can concentrate on strategic priorities, and enhance enterprise outcomes whereas rising and empowering the workforce.
Expertise in Viva leverages the mixed energy of the Microsoft Graph—which gives worker exercise indicators throughout Microsoft 365 purposes and companies—and abilities from the LinkedIn Expertise Graph—a dynamic mannequin that maps the worldwide abilities panorama, together with how 39,000 distinctive abilities relate to one another, to jobs, and to studying content material. With AI reasoning utilized on high of this information layer, Expertise in Viva can intelligently infer an worker’s abilities profile, offering Viva clients with an improved understanding of present workforce abilities. Expertise in Viva is not going to join particular person LinkedIn member information to a person’s Viva abilities companies. Notice: Solely combination abilities information from the LinkedIn Expertise Graph will likely be shared with Viva.
Listed here are just a few key eventualities this new service will mild up throughout Microsoft Viva and Microsoft 365 purposes and companies.
Strategic workforce planning
Leaders acquire up-to-date insights into their group’s expertise panorama, enabling agile workforce growth and deployment. Expertise in Viva powers a brand new set of dashboards inside Viva Insights which permits leaders to visualise ability metrics to entry group capabilities, gaps, and alternatives. They’ll additionally see how abilities are distributed throughout organizations, groups, ranges, and adjustments over time.
Upskilling and reskilling
HR, Studying and Growth groups, and managers can use these insights from Expertise in Viva to create focused studying academies or studying paths to upskill and reskill their groups shortly on vital subjects. And with the brand new abilities inferencing in Viva, Viva Studying will now intelligently recommend new studying content material primarily based on abilities staff are at the moment creating or perhaps interested by studying.
Ability discovery within the movement of labor
Expertise are intelligently advised for workers primarily based on indicators from the Microsoft Graph together with exercise throughout Microsoft 365 and Viva. Workers can affirm and handle their abilities within the abilities editor in Viva, and their confirmed abilities will present up of their Microsoft 365 profile card which is accessible throughout Outlook, Microsoft Groups, and different Microsoft 365 apps and companies.
Our purpose is to satisfy clients the place they’re on their abilities journey—which implies taking an open, extensible method to Expertise in Viva that enables for interoperability with third-party purposes our clients could already use as their major abilities data, enabling a extra holistic and unified abilities view. Expertise in Viva will enter non-public preview by the tip of 2023 and will likely be included within the Microsoft Viva suite.
“As we undertake one of many largest transformations in UK monetary companies, we all know that creating the talents of our colleagues would be the essential foreign money wanted to ship on our strategic plan. This collaboration with Microsoft on Expertise in Viva will likely be a serious step ahead to serving to us do that. It unlocks thrilling new methods to deliver the most recent AI-powered abilities expertise along with our individuals to supercharge how we work proper throughout the organisation. We imagine that this long-term funding in abilities will likely be a catalyst for this transformation and finally in attaining our development ambitions to do extra to assist Britain prosper.”
—Sharon Doherty, Chief Folks & Locations Officer, Lloyds Banking Group
Viva Amplify—drive affect along with your communications
Our analysis reveals that one of many high 5 work circumstances thought-about most necessary for HPOs is having inspiring and engaged leaders.3 Engaged staff, an indicator of high-performing organizations, are 46 p.c extra more likely to see their corporations as sturdy communicators and 37 p.c extra more likely to categorical confidence in management.1
Clearly, reaching the fitting staff on the proper time and with the fitting message is a vital facet of an engaged and high-performing workforce.4 To do that, organizational leaders and communicators want the instruments to raise firm technique, create a two-way dialogue, and energize their individuals. For this reason we’re excited to announce that Viva Amplify, a key part of the communications and group capabilities in Microsoft Viva, is now usually out there and at the moment rolling out to Microsoft Viva suite subscription clients.
Viva Amplify centralizes marketing campaign administration, publishing, and analytics so enterprise leaders and company communicators can join and interact with all staff meaningfully. Utilizing multichannel publishing, communicators publish throughout the apps and units for particular staff, in only a few clicks. Now they’ll create and handle organization-wide or focused campaigns to assist inform everybody, create alignment, and encourage motion—all from one place.
Create a high-performance group with Microsoft Viva
Expertise in Viva and Viva Amplify are simply the most recent in Microsoft Viva’s regular enlargement and launch of improvements. Since its launch in February 2021, Viva has influenced the worker expertise platform class with progressive new applied sciences that span office analytics and worker suggestions, studying and information administration, purpose setting and OKR administration, and worker communications and communities. Now in an period of generative AI, we’ve launched new clever conversational experiences inside Viva purposes to assist speed up workforce insights, summarize and create content material, suggest actions, and simplify the worker expertise. These developments in Viva will present organizations with a brand new approach to perceive workforce tradition and take actions to enhance engagement and efficiency whereas measuring the affect of these actions on enterprise outcomes to create a cycle of steady enchancment.
Microsoft Viva now has greater than 35 million month-to-month energetic customers in organizations throughout industries like monetary companies together with U.S. Financial institution and PayPal, expertise together with DELL, shopper items together with Carlsberg Group, Grundfos, and Haleon, skilled companies together with Sage and CBRE, hospitality together with Melia Inns—all counting on the platform to construct a HPO.
Study extra and get began
Learn the Excessive-Efficiency Group (HPO) Information containing our newest analysis findings on high-performance organizations within the new period of labor. And learn the way a concentrate on workforce engagement and productiveness might help your group exceed expectations.
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Discover Microsoft Viva suite subscription licenses. These will embody Viva Amplify and Expertise in Viva (when it turns into out there)—see full plans and pricing. When you’re interested by figuring out extra, contact your Microsoft consultant.
