At this time on the HR Know-how Convention, we unveiled new capabilities in our worker expertise platform, Microsoft Viva, together with a brand new AI-powered expertise 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 essential to changing into a high-performance group (HPO).1
Microsoft Viva Amplify
Centralize marketing campaign administration, publishing, and reporting to succeed in and have interaction workers.
Saying Abilities in Viva
We’re excited to announce a brand new AI-powered Abilities in Viva service that may assist organizations perceive workforce expertise and gaps, and ship personalised skills-based experiences all through Microsoft 365 and Viva functions for workers, enterprise leaders, and HR.
With fast developments in AI, the way in which corporations handle and develop expertise is reaching an inflection level—job necessities are altering, new talent units are wanted, and roles are evolving. Actually, 82 p.c of leaders say their workers will want new expertise 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 presently have the precise capabilities to get their work executed.2
Staff will want quicker, seamless entry to new expertise to assist 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 expertise know-how, HR and enterprise leaders can deal with strategic priorities, and enhance enterprise outcomes whereas rising and empowering the workforce.
Abilities in Viva leverages the mixed energy of the Microsoft Graph—which offers worker exercise indicators throughout Microsoft 365 functions and companies—and expertise from the LinkedIn Abilities Graph—a dynamic mannequin that maps the worldwide expertise panorama, together with how 39,000 distinctive expertise relate to one another, to jobs, and to studying content material. With AI reasoning utilized on high of this information layer, Abilities in Viva can intelligently infer an worker’s expertise profile, offering Viva prospects with an improved understanding of present workforce expertise. Abilities in Viva won’t join particular person LinkedIn member information to a consumer’s Viva expertise companies. Observe: Solely combination expertise information from the LinkedIn Abilities Graph shall be shared with Viva.
Listed here are a number of key eventualities this new service will mild up throughout Microsoft Viva and Microsoft 365 functions and companies.
Strategic workforce planning
Leaders achieve up-to-date insights into their group’s expertise panorama, enabling agile workforce growth and deployment. Abilities in Viva powers a brand new set of dashboards inside Viva Insights which permits leaders to visualise talent metrics to entry group capabilities, gaps, and alternatives. They will additionally see how expertise 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 Abilities in Viva to create focused studying academies or studying paths to upskill and reskill their groups rapidly on essential subjects. And with the brand new expertise inferencing in Viva, Viva Studying will now intelligently counsel new studying content material based mostly on expertise workers are presently growing or perhaps keen on studying.
Talent discovery within the move of labor
Abilities are intelligently urged for workers based mostly on indicators from the Microsoft Graph together with exercise throughout Microsoft 365 and Viva. Staff can affirm and handle their expertise within the expertise editor in Viva, and their confirmed expertise will present up of their Microsoft 365 profile card which is accessible throughout Outlook, Microsoft Groups, and different Microsoft 365 apps and companies.
Our objective is to fulfill prospects the place they’re on their expertise journey—which suggests taking an open, extensible method to Abilities in Viva that enables for interoperability with third-party functions our prospects might already use as their main expertise data, enabling a extra holistic and unified expertise view. Abilities in Viva will enter personal preview by the top of 2023 and shall be included within the Microsoft Viva suite.
“As we undertake one of many largest transformations in UK monetary companies, we all know that growing the abilities of our colleagues would be the essential foreign money wanted to ship on our strategic plan. This collaboration with Microsoft on Abilities in Viva shall be a serious step ahead to serving to us do that. It unlocks thrilling new methods to carry the newest AI-powered expertise know-how along with our folks to supercharge how we work proper throughout the organisation. We imagine that this long-term funding in expertise shall be a catalyst for this transformation and in the end in attaining our progress ambitions to do extra to assist Britain prosper.”
—Sharon Doherty, Chief Individuals & Locations Officer, Lloyds Banking Group
Viva Amplify—drive affect together with your communications
Our analysis exhibits that one of many high 5 work circumstances thought-about most necessary for HPOs is having inspiring and engaged leaders.3 Engaged workers, an indicator of high-performing organizations, are 46 p.c extra prone to see their corporations as sturdy communicators and 37 p.c extra prone to specific confidence in management.1
Clearly, reaching the precise workers on the proper time and with the precise message is a essential 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 folks. Because of this we’re excited to announce that Viva Amplify, a key element of the communications and group capabilities in Microsoft Viva, is now usually obtainable and presently rolling out to Microsoft Viva suite subscription prospects.
Viva Amplify centralizes marketing campaign administration, publishing, and analytics so enterprise leaders and company communicators can join and have interaction with all workers meaningfully. Utilizing multichannel publishing, communicators publish throughout the apps and units for particular workers, in just some clicks. Now they will 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
Abilities in Viva and Viva Amplify are simply the newest in Microsoft Viva’s regular growth and launch of improvements. Since its launch in February 2021, Viva has influenced the worker expertise platform class with modern new applied sciences that span office analytics and worker suggestions, studying and information administration, objective 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 functions 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 option 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 lively customers in organizations throughout industries like monetary companies together with U.S. Financial institution and PayPal, know-how together with DELL, client 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 deal with workforce engagement and productiveness may help your group exceed expectations.
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Discover Microsoft Viva suite subscription licenses. These will embody Viva Amplify and Abilities in Viva (when it turns into obtainable)—see full plans and pricing. Should you’re keen on figuring out extra, contact your Microsoft consultant.
