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 August 24, 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. 

Glint celebrates one year at Microsoft Viva

In July 2023, Glint moved from its home at LinkedIn and joined Microsoft Viva, providing a comprehensive approach to improving employee engagement and performance. It has been a year of incredible accomplishments. Read how Glint enriches the Microsoft Viva experience, written by Quentin Mackey Principal Group Product Manager.

To celebrate one year of Viva Glint, we are hosting our first Viva Glint Customer Town Hall. Tune in on September 18 or 19 to hear about the latest Viva news, product updates, and stories to help you make the most of your Viva Glint experience. Choose an option below and register:

Option 1: September 18 – NAMER and EMEA
Option 2: September 18/19 – APAC

New on your Viva Glint platform

New feature! 360 feedback programs are live! Microsoft Viva Glint 360 feedback programs provide insights into an individual’s strengths and opportunities, with a long-term focus on improvement. Rather than relying solely on the perspective of an immediate supervisor or manager, 360s invite multiple perspectives. 360 feedback programs are included with your Viva Glint platform.

Read about the 360 feedback feature and watch a 2-minute video detailing the process.
Share the Viva Glint 360 Subject Guide with your employees.
Read the blog.

Need to reopen or extend your survey cycle? Sometimes survey takers need extra time to complete a survey, or your response rate may not be as high as expected. Admins can reopen or extend a survey cycle as long as a new cycle isn’t started. For best results, reopen a recently closed survey within a day or two of its closing date.

Confidently communicate with your global employee population. Use Viva Glint’s multi-language emails to meet local language guidelines for work-related communications and ensure that your global organization fully understands survey notifications. Learn more about multi-language emails.

Seamlessly discover and navigate between Microsoft 365 apps on the web. Glint is integrating to the Microsoft 365 header to allow one-touch navigation and convenient suite-wide usage from:

The Viva App Bar in other Viva apps (when they are updated to the latest App Bar package)
The Microsoft 365 Apps window (search or select the Employee Experience category)
The Microsoft 365 app launcher

Connect and learn with Viva Glint

For managers

Psychological safety for managers | September 17

Invite your managers to our first webinar on psychological safety. Building Psychological Safety on Your Team will help managers identify and cultivate psychological safety within their team. Share this link with your managers.

For all stakeholders

Ask the Experts: Identifying insights through reports | September 10

Geared towards new Viva Glint customers who are deploying their first programs, this session focuses on identifying insights using our reports. Register here.

Industry cohort meetings | September 11, 12, and 25

Join us for our Healthcare, Manufacturing, and Retail quarterly meetings where we’ll share industry-specific insights and learnings. Read the blog and register here.

HR Tech Conference | September 24-26

HR Tech is a top industry event with this year focusing on engagement, talent acquisition, and performance management in the era of AI. Don’t miss the Viva Glint, Insights, and Pulse Customer Roundtable and stop by the Microsoft booth to help influence the direction of our product. To reserve your seat (includes lunch), email jgonzales@microsoft.com. Spots are limited.

Exciting new resources

Articulate your business priorities and needs. To build your holistic employee listening strategy, take time to align with your internal stakeholders and complete our new Holistic Listening Vision and Strategy Discovery Workbook. This will help you discuss information that is important to consider for your listening strategy and for tracking progress.

Accelerate AI transformation. Review this new eBook from the Viva People Science team which outlines findings on AI readiness, discusses implications, and provides practical guidance for leaders and HR on how they can best support people through change related to AI at work. eBook: The state of AI change readiness.

Learn how Microsoft HR uses Viva and Microsoft 365 Copilot to empower employees. Microsoft HR understands that technology is about people. A human-centric approach was the natural fit when we rolled out Copilot for Microsoft 365 to the global HR organization. Read the blog about how Microsoft HR uses the Viva suite to communicate, encourage skilling and development, and measure success.

Maximize your Viva Glint experience with a Microsoft partner. Microsoft partners are certified experts who have undergone rigorous training and possess deep knowledge of our products and services. Read this blog and learn how to engage a partner.

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