Viva Goals

Viva Goals is a simple, visual way to align your organisation’s strategic priorities with individual teams. Viva Goals brings your company’s mission and vision to life, by aligning the goals of individual teams with your organisation’s strategic priorities. It will help employees see how their work impacts the business on a real level, allowing them to focus and make better decisions that get the right results.

The main features of Viva Goals will include:

Employees now want to feel more connected than ever, feel aligned to their organisation’s purpose/mission, and they want to grow, make an impact and a difference. A recent Microsoft study found 77% of employees said it is important to feel a sense of purpose and meaning within their company, while 69% said it is important to be rewarded for impact instead of hours worked.

Alongside this, an organisation is more successful when their employees can understand and collaborate on their goals (Objectives) so they can help achieve business targets (Key Results). With this in mind, Microsoft has released Viva Goals.

We’ve all been there. You and your team have spent hours discussing, brainstorming, and planning new goals for the year—but then what? How do you make sure that everyone stays on track?

Create, approve, and align on OKRs in one place. Create new OKRs or start with built-in templates, and define success at all levels with approval workflows and flexible views.

Gain visibility into goals across your business with organisational, team, and individual views. This way you can focus teams on your most critical priorities while still keeping everyone informed about how their daily work impacts the organisation’s key priorities.

Since we know that life isn’t just “work,” Microsoft have made it easy to connect projects and tasks to OKRs as well. This way you can see how your team’s daily work impacts your organisation’s key priorities—and connect OKRs to the work systems your team is already using.