Enabling Collaboration at Microsoft with Microsoft Viva

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Microsoft Viva is playing a pivotal role in enhancing our regional teamwork at Microsoft.

In this Inside Track Spotlight video, we dive into how our leaders are using Microsoft Viva to improve the way our employees engage and communicate.

Watch as Poly Palaiogeorgou, director of business programs in Microsoft Digital, the company’s IT organization, interviews Kristina Tikhonova, general manager of sales and marketing in Southeast Europe, on how teams in her region use Viva.

Tikhonova says that the Microsoft Viva platform is valuable because it enhances the communication of the very diverse workforce in her region.

Tikhonova talks about Viva Insights, Viva Connections and Viva Learning as helpful tools for dealing with difficulties in her daily working life. She describes Viva Connections as her ‘real copilot’ and appreciates its personalized style and ability to connect her to all the tools she needs.

Tikhonova also mentions how Viva Insights, with data-driven insights, helps her use data to understand her interactions and the well-being of her team. It also assists her optimize how she manages her time and communications within her team.

She also refers to Viva Engage as a module designed to help communicate more effectively with employees and appreciates its ability to handle all aspects of communication in one place.

“We use Viva to bring people with different cultural backgrounds together,” she says, explaining that Microsoft Viva Engage is particularly helpful. “Viva Engage is very different in terms of communications because, unlike email or Teams, you can do everything in one place. It connects me to all the tools I need.”

Viva Engage has streamlined the communication processes for her team, and as a bonus, it has fostered higher levels of employee engagement.

In the end, Tikhonova believes that leadership modeling is key for the technology adoption aspect of employee engagement within an organization.

“If you’d like your company, your leadership team, your people to use certain technology, whether it’s Viva or something else, I think the best way is just to model it for them and to use it yourself,” she says.