ON DEMAND | Viva in-depth: Learning content
Microsoft Viva brings together the tools and applications leaders need to engage and empower their workforce. And there’s a lot to plan and consider, in addition to keeping up with the latest updates and innovations.
This article contains 10 in-depth videos about Microsoft Viva – now on demand and embedded below, with five more coming soon. You’ll discover the ins and outs on how Microsoft Viva is THE employee experience platform that empowers organizations to continuously improve employee engagement and business performance with next-generation AI and insights.
OK, on to the show(s) (on demand)!!! All content is as it was presented during the Microsoft 365 Community Conference, presented by top product makers from Microsoft.
Note: Beyond the Viva content below, you can view all recorded sessions on demand now within the full Microsoft 365 Community Conference playlist on the Microsoft Community Learning channel (YouTube). You’ll find keynotes, general sessions, and numerous breakout sessions — in their entirety. We, too, created this unique playlist of all Viva Sessions.
Expand your internal communications strategy
“Transforming Communications with AI” presented by Steve Clayton – VP of communications strategy at Microsoft. Steve is a wonderful storyteller and provides a lot of insight into how he and the team run and manage comms for Microsoft. In this session, you go behind the scenes of how Microsoft approaches the use of AI across the discipline, best practices for applying AI to Comms and a sneak peek at some of the tools Microsoft has built internally to transform the work that over 250 communicators globally carry out for the company. You will walk away with patterns, practices and practical advice on how to apply generative and Microsoft Copilot technology to your business.
The best recent overview of the Viva suite
“What’s new & next for Microsoft Viva & the Employee Experience” presented by Kirk Gregersen, Nick DeFalco, Cassidy Potts (Phillips 66), Kristi Kelly, and Michael Holste. Microsoft Viva brings together the tools and applications your business needs for communication and feedback, analytics, goals, and learning—together in one unified solution that is available to employees in the apps they use every day, like Teams and Outlook. Join Viva executives and product leaders to explore product strategy, upcoming innovations and integrations. The session will showcase AI-powered experiences that can take communications, skilling, goal setting and employee feedback to the next level. Watch below:
Uplevel your corporate comms capabilities
“Planning a Corporate Comms strategy w/SharePoint News & Viva Amplify” with Naomi Moneypenny, Dave Cohen, and Maeneka Grewal. This transformation track session spans strategy, best practices, and product guidance. Learn how to plan a corporate communications strategy leveraging the power of SharePoint News and Viva Amplify.
“Getting started with Viva Amplify” with Michael Holste, Britt Boston, and Naomi Moneypenny. Learn how to save time and deliver more effective communications with Viva Amplify with this introductory session. We’ll cover how to get set up and started with the latest Viva tooling designed for organizational communications, including getting access, creating & managing campaigns, publishing to multiple channels, and measuring impact and reporting.
“How Microsoft is transforming Comms & Employee Engagement” with John Cirone, senior director on the Microsoft global employee and executive communications team. At Microsoft, our communicators lead with a growth mindset, using data to inform strategic and tactical decision making. We have evolved our approach to employee communications and engagement over several years, and our transformation continues to incorporate new tools including Viva and Copilot. John Cirone leads Microsoft’s Global Executive and Employee Communications (GEEC) community of over 1,000 communicators globally and across our diverse businesses. He will share how “Customer Zero” approaches communications, an inside look at best practices, and learnings that can inform your communications and engagement strategies.
Your communities grow and flourish together.
“Leveraging AI for communications” with Erin Rosenthal and Kristi Kelly. Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming the way we communicate and engage with employees. In this session, you’ll hear from practitioners who have successfully leveraged AI in their communication strategies and campaigns. And you’ll gain practical tips to harness the power of Copilot in your communication work.
“Viva Engage and AI Transform Communications” with Dan Holme and Jason Mayans. Learn how great communicators leverage listening, analytics and AI to measure and scale effectiveness. Push beyond the boundaries of traditional internal communications and apply lessons from external comms to engage your audience with people-centric, personalized storytelling with modern, media-rich content that amplifies messaging.
“Building Communities to connect employees & accelerate knowledge sharing” with Erin Rosenthal, Mike McLean, and Allison Michels. Communities accelerate sharing of knowledge, information and experience within large teams and divisions, and across organizational silos. In this session, we will use Viva Engage to bring strategies and best practices to life. You’ll learn how to create communities that support company initiatives including diversity, onboarding, role-specific, shared services and employee resource groups.
“Driving Rollout and adoption of Copilot with Microsoft Viva” with Chris Bortlik, Britt Boston, Maeneka Grewal, Jeffrey Maning, and Allison Michels. Learn how to use Microsoft Viva to plan, communicate, measure, and support your organization’s rollout of Copilot. See Viva in action in this demo-heavy session. Learn real-world strategies, best practices, templates, and prescriptive guidance for an end-to-end campaign to drive user enablement and share knowledge about Copilot.
Stay up to date
We want to include some great, ongoing resources for you. Starting with the Microsoft Viva adoption site on adoption.microsoft.com. And join our community to catch all news and insights from the Microsoft Viva community blog. And you can find us on Twitter at @MicrosoftViva.
Microsoft Viva helps engage and empower their workforce.
With Viva, leaders can set their company strategy and effectively communicate goals and priorities across the organization, enable employees with the right resources, skills and knowledge, and create a feedback flywheel to continuously assess and improve employee engagement and performance at every level.
Microsoft Viva is built right into Microsoft Teams and experienced across Microsoft 365, so employees can find what they need when they need it. Viva is easily customizable and extensible, accessible from anywhere, and integrates with the tools that organizations already use.
The full Microsoft Viva suite of apps and services – The employee experience: Dynamic, connected, ever changing.
Thank you for your interest in taking your knowledge and depth of Viva to the next level. It warms our employee-engaged hearts!
Cheers, Jack Elmore
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