Open communication throughout your organization
Open and honest communication energizes your employees, brings your company’s mission to life, and ensures that everyone understands how they can contribute to it. With Viva Engage (formerly Yammer), you can do this easily.
Working with Viva Engage
If you want to introduce or optimize Viva Engage within your organization, it's important to develop a strong and clear strategy so that your employees feel engaged and understand how the platform will help them become more productive and connected.
No idea how to set up a strategy like that?
4 Reasons to Choose Viva Engage
Viva Engage can be a valuable communication tool for many organizations, especially larger ones. Here are four specific benefits of this social networking platform for businesses:
Less email traffic
Make sure important emails don’t get buried in your employees’ inboxes. Instead of exchanging emails back and forth—which distracts everyone from their actual primary tasks—shift some of that communication to your social business network.
Who's Who
With remote work and in companies with multiple locations, it can take a long time to find the right colleague to ask a question or share information. Viva Engage / Yammer saves you the trouble of searching.
Social Connections
Your employees are in constant contact with one another, which improves collaboration and helps everyone get to know each other better. This leads to better relationships among colleagues and increased engagement.
Source of information
Yammer / Viva Engage is the ideal platform for creating a central knowledge base. Everyone can share information about the company, news, processes, and more with one another—both formal and informal information!
Microsoft Viva as an Employee Experience Platform
Microsoft Viva is an integrated Employee Experience Platform (EXP) that centralizes communication, knowledge, learning, insights, and goals. The platform is connected to Microsoft Teams, allowing your organization to extend all of its available resources into its employees’ workflows. The goal of Microsoft Viva is to create a robust Employee Experience that delivers value to your business.
What can you do with Viva Engage?
- Connecting with colleagues
- Post Messages
- Join communities
- Create Virtual Events
- Using Polls
- Distribute Policies
- Ask Questions
- Gathering Ideas
- Share Posts
- Announce News
- Use polls to gather feedback
- Send private messages
- Celebrating Successes
- Praise Your Colleagues
- Using Photos and Videos
- Using the mobile app
- Integrating with M365 apps
- Networking
When should you use Viva Engage instead of Teams?
Microsoft Teams
Teams is a tool for small groups of people who work closely together and communicate frequently.
Microsoft Viva Engage
Yammer focuses on collaboration and communication among larger groups of people.
In addition to Viva Engage, check out these Microsoft 365 apps
Our team is here to help you!
As a Microsoft Certified Partner with a team of Modern Work experts, we’d be happy to help you figure out how to provide the best possible experience for your employees.
Nick Lievens
Sales Consultant, Modern Work
+32 (0)9 329 93 06
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