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How To Boost Employee Engagement with Microsoft Viva Join us for this Free Webinar on Wednesday, 31st August at 18:00pm BST Employees demand more flexible remote work options and significant in-person collaboration options in today’s market. Rethinking everything is necessary to
In the evolving workplace, with home working and flexibility becoming commonplace, it is more important than ever to ensure that all employees are happy, engaged and confident in their career. And with a happy staff, it follows that a
Employees who feel they work in meaningful jobs and are managed well not only feel happier but are more secure and drive productivity and innovation. This symbiotic relationship between business and worker lies within the heart of employee engagement. This
How To Build An Engaged Community Of Employees Join us for this Free Webinar on Wednesday, 14th December at 4PM GMT | 11AM EST | 10AM CST | 8AM PST Duration: 45 mins Engaged workplaces are critical for the preservation
Viva Engage is a social app for digital communities, conversations, and self-expression tools that builds on the existing capabilities of the Communities app for Teams and Microsoft 365 to connect employees and empower everybody to contribute and express themselves by
With its Teams platform, Microsoft has played a key role in driving new ways of working, fundamentally setting the tone for hybrid working. A single pane of glass, the 2017 launch of Teams gave employees a hub to house everything
We’ve all faced this problem before – you’re doing some work and need to find out more about some specific terminology that you’ve never heard of. Usually in this instance, you would go and search online for answers, or perhaps
Life has changed dramatically over the last 2 years – we went from working in offices every day to working permanently from home and now, for many of us, we are embracing hybridity – partial home working, partial office working.
Over the past few years, the pandemic has revolutionised the way we work – as millions of us have begun to work from home, either full time or part time, the lack of disconnect between work and home life has
Enhance the employee experience with Microsoft Viva In today’s world, employees want more flexible remote work options, and meaningful in-person collaboration. Empowering people to thrive in a more flexible work world requires rethinking everything—from how you empower managers, to how you create culture, to how
As the workplace has transformed over the course of the pandemic, organisations have been looking for new ways to unlock better connections and collaboration for their employees. As hybrid working becomes more and more prominent, and regardless of whether people
Everyone wants to ensure they get the best out of their employees, right? And employees want to have the best employee experience tools available to them to make sure they feel prepared, organised and happy in the workplace – whether
Whatever you or your business does, community engagement is one of the pillars of success. It’s a great way of developing a good working relationship between public bodies (like local councils) and community groups. But it’s also a great way
The Microsoft Viva Workshop Overview In today’s world, employees want more flexible remote work options, and meaningful in-person collaboration. Empowering people to thrive in a more flexible work world requires rethinking everything—from how you empower managers, to how you create culture, to how you reimagine the
In the past year, we’ve changed almost every business practice we’ve been used to. So for communications professionals tasked with the job of planning large employee virtual events this year, we wanted to give you some support to make it
Digital Champions. Empowering your people to continuously educate your organisation. Book demo Learn more Encourage your people to thrive securely Our Digital Champions Program is built on Microsoft’s highly secure GCC High tenancy, specifically designed to meet the stringent requirements
How Yammer Works Yammer is an enterprise social network that gives employees a unified, secure and private place to connect and collaborate across the business. It’s used for internal communication, problem solving, and more. Yammer allows you to create private
It’s been a challenging few years for all of us, with millions changing the way they work, whether it be at home, in the office or on the front lines. Wherever we work, we have an ever-increasing dependency on technology
Help drive employee engagement by enabling employees to easily discover the most relevant communications, communities, and tools: • Target the right news to the right employees at the right time, right where they work. • Provide employees with a dashboard of their critical apps
Introducing Viva Connections Viva Connections is a new intranet software built on M365 in Teams – offering a personalised view of news, conversations and communities through apps employees already use. The platform intends to boost happiness, feelings of belonging and
What are the Microsoft funded workshops?? Microsoft funded workshops otherwise known as the Microsoft Commerce Incentive offers a collection of existing workshops to help you further transform how your organisation works using Microsoft Teams and the rest of the M365 suite. We can apply for these on your
It should come as no surprise (Microsoft has sent a fair few reminders) that Skype for Business Online is officially on its way out. As of 31 July 2021, Skype for Business Online will be putting its feet up and gracefully
An Overview of Digital Champions. Join us for this Free Demo on 29th June 2021, 13:00 CST Our Digital Champions as a service Programme is based on years of experience in building sustainable and engaging communities of engaged employees from
How to build a successful network of Digital Champions! Join us for this Free Webinar on Thursday, 25th November 18:00 PM GMT Duration: 1 hour Why Digital Champions for your business? Not using O365 to it’s full potential will result
New ways of working 01 Modernise your ways of working; create more digital systems, reduce reliance on paper-based processes and offer your citizens digital platforms to help them interact with your services. Upskill your people 02 Giving your people the
Improve employee engagement 01 Use the Office 365 suite to communicate more effectively with employees, provide platforms for them to be heard and create mechanisms for them to provide regular feedback. Give the power to your frontline teams 02 Enable
Microsoft recently unveiled a brand-new platform designed for employee engagement, learning, wellbeing and knowledge discovery to help employee’s transform the way they work remotely. In this article I will outline my top 7 Microsoft Viva features and what to expect from them. Viva Topics Content and skills are arranged automatically
Digital Champions. Empowering your people to continuously educate your organisation. Book demo Learn more Grow and Innovate with Microsoft 365 Our Digital Champions programme is delivered purely online through Microsoft Teams, giving your people access to the most up-to-date Microsoft
Microsoft 365 Digital Workforce Workshop As our workforce evolves, so should the technology we use to work together. The Microsoft 365 Digital Workforce Workshop provides an overview into how employees are communicating, collaborating and being productive. This two-day engagement to
Changing Social are pleased to launch their Citizen Developer University (CDU) programme, targeted at organisations who want to build a significant momentum internally for improving personal and business productivity with apps and automations. When we meet organisations who are interested
Microsoft Viva Sales is a new modern way of selling that brings together any customer relationship management technology (CRM), Microsoft 365, and Teams to provide a more streamlined and Al-powered selling experience. Time is money, and relationships are crucial for
APi Group inc. is a global market leading business services provider of life safety and energy speciality services in over 500 locations across the world, with 40 independent construction and infrastructure companies in its consortium. As a large organisation, the
Over the past few years, the world has seen an increase in burnout as people feel more disconnected from colleagues as a result of hybrid working. People who work at home may also struggle to disconnect from work, continuing
In our hybrid workplace, we have been utilising different ways of collaborating and communicating. Within many organisations, workers have been getting stuck into both Microsoft Teams and Yammer. Whilst there are similarities between the two, the tools have different strengths
Use of Yammer is on the up, with more and more organisations making the most of this enterprise social networking tool for their communications, internal socialising, events and more. As it continues to grow, Microsoft has released some updates to
By now, you should be familiar with Microsoft Viva, in particular Viva Connections, and how it seeks to provide a better, more accessible and wellbeing focused intranet to your organisation. Within Connections (and also accessible in SharePoint), you will also
Technology is always evolving, and Microsoft software is no exception. It’s a great source of collaboration and engagement, and updates always seek to improve the user’s experience, especially with hybrid working in mind. When utilised the right way, it
Microsoft SharePoint is a cloud-based service that serves as an intranet and helps organisations share and manage content, knowledge and applications to empower teamwork, find information and collaborate seamlessly across the organisation. It’s a great location to store knowledge and
Work-life balance is by no means a new phenomenon, but it’s something we’re hearing more about due to the ever-increasing demands, pressures and changes to the way we work. Companies are investing time and effort into finding the holy grail
The Hybrid Meetings Workshop Overview The Hybrid Meetings Workshop is a modular engagement to help define your business priorities and scenarios that drive hybrid work. This workshop engagement is designed to showcase hybrid meetings through ‘art of the possible’ immersive
The face of the ‘traditional’ workplace has changed dramatically over the past 16 months as businesses try to grasp what the workplace of the future will look like. But the pandemic hasn’t been the only catalyst for organisations to
Automating paper-based processes and moving to a more digitally-focused business isn’t something from the future, it’s happening right now and is a trend that’s gaining momentum. There was a time when the term “automation” conjured up images of manufacturing plants full of robots.
You may be familiar with terms like change fatigue or Zoom fatigue, but have you heard of champions’ fatigue? It’s one of the reasons why change programmes fail. In this blog we explain the phenomenon and offer tips and tricks
Office 365 in Healthcare Healthcare is a complex, multi-disciplinary sector requiring a large number of people, skills and expertise to come together to support patients with care when they need it most. Having secure, trusted systems that allows clinicians, administrators
Welcome to the third instalment of our Digital Champions blog series! In our last blog, we talked about creating a winning environment for our digital champions so they can really have a positive impact on your change programme.
Employee burnout is a term you’ve probably heard a lot more in recent times. Stress and feeling overwhelmed can become part of professional life. When this relentless work pressure becomes debilitating, it’s known as burnout. In this blog, we’ll
The British Business Bank is the government-owned business development bank set up to support smaller businesses. With security being at the heart of everything the Bank does, they were keen to learn more about the security capabilities of Office 365;
Communications, all in one. Communication is key – whether you are drafting up an email, giving a presentation, training staff or simply having a conversation. And being able to communicate effectively about company changes, like a Microsoft 365 (M365) transition,
There’s no debating that over the past twelve months our employees would have been completely isolated and adrift if it wasn’t for the use of Enterprise Social Networks (ESNs). The surge in remote working cultures has definitely been on the rise in
Showing our appreciation and recognising people for their efforts is simple yet powerful. However, it is often underrated and underused. And in a remote world with a lack of face-to-face interaction, the need to celebrate success is even more crucial.
Over the coming weeks, we’re going to be blogging about some of the apps available in Microsoft Teams to support you to manage your people, stay connected and maintain focus. In part one, we will be looking at apps to
Introduction Office 365 has the potential to transform how frontline workers operate within the workplace. The cloud-based subscription service ‘that brings together the best tools for the way people work today’ (Office 365, 2019) offers a diverse range of tools
In this report, I have outlined the Yammer benefits as well as how it could be used to solve common issues in modern day corporations. The world of business is now more competitive than ever, and organisations are being
Wednesday April 17th 2019, we hosted our first event showcasing our Adoption Game! Our MD, Steve Crompton, dreamt up the idea of using a game to help others understand adoption and change management principles. It’s not easy to simply describe
For months, and possibly years, corporate communications professionals the world over have been trying to convince their leaders of the benefits of Yammer. Claims of improved staff engagement and promises of real-time, two-way communication have always been offered and backed up by case studies
