Top talent drives business success. But in today’s competitive market, attracting and retaining those high performers hinges on one critical factor: employee engagement.

Strong employee engagement helps you foster a work environment of purpose and belonging. Poor engagement increases the risk of losing your best employees and failing to attract the right people for your organisation. It affects your bottom line too. A recent Gallup study found that disengaged employees cost businesses up to $8.8 (£6.7) trillion annually. 

The key to boosting engagement lies in understanding your employees: their feelings, pain points, and successes. However, gaining these crucial insights, especially in larger organisations, can be a significant challenge. That’s where Microsoft Viva Glint comes in.

Viva Glint is an AI-powered employee engagement survey tool. By gathering continuous feedback through surveys, pulse checks, and other tools, Viva Glint helps you identify areas for improvement within your organisation.

In this article, we’ll discuss the importance of employee engagement and explore how you can use Microsoft Viva Glint to make a meaningful impact on your team.

Introduction to Employee Engagement

Employee engagement refers to the strength of an employee’s emotional connection towards the organisation, their team, and their work. Engaged employees are passionate about their jobs, committed to the company’s goals, and motivated to go the extra mile.

They buy into the company’s success and actively contribute to improving their work environment. The more engaged your team members are, the more they look forward to coming to work every day.

What contributes to high employee engagement? Here are some key factors:

  • Employees who feel seen and heard are more likely to be above and beyond for your company. When managers and decision-makers ignore feedback, it can be incredibly demoralising – especially during periods of change and uncertainty.
  • Providing opportunities for professional development is an investment in your employees. This can include training programs, mentorship opportunities, and clear career paths.
  • Fostering a culture of recognition and appreciation. Praising employees’ contributions, both big and small, reinforces positive behaviours and boosts morale.

Benefits of high employee engagement include increased productivity, employee retention and ultimately better work.

Overview of Microsoft Viva Glint

Microsoft Viva Glint is an employee engagement platform designed to help you better understand your employees. The easiest way to understand what Viva Glint offers is to see it as a supercharged survey platform.

It lets you run ongoing smart surveys to collect regular insights about your employees. By providing these actionable insights, Viva Glint empowers managers to identify areas for improvement and drive positive change within their teams.

Key Features of Microsoft Viva Glint

Smart Surveys

Viva Glint allows organisations to regularly collect employee thoughts through various survey methods, including pulse surveys, lifecycle surveys (e.g., onboarding, exit), and custom surveys tailored to specific needs. This frequent feedback mechanism provides you with a real-time understanding of employee sentiment.

To ensure they don’t get in the way of your employees’ daily activities, Viva Glint analyses and understands how your team works and asks for feedback at the right moment. They can appear as unobtrusive pop-ups, or be sent by email during quieter periods, improving response rates.

Interactive Dashboards and Insights

Viva Glint analyses survey responses and presents the results in clear, visually compelling dashboards. These dashboards highlight key trends and help you better identify strengths and weaknesses within teams and across the organisation.

Managers gain access to team-specific insights, enabling more targeted and effective conversations with their reports.

AI-powered analysis tools

With the power of Copilot, you can instantly summarise thousands of comments and suggestions instantly. Viva Glint can use this information to present recommendations that are actually useful, and tailored to the specific areas of improvement identified by your employees.

This eliminates the tedious and time-consuming process of manually sifting through feedback, allowing you to quickly grasp the key themes. The AI can even identify subtle patterns and connections within the data that might be missed by humans.

Benefits of Using Viva Glint for Employee Engagement

Viva Glint offers some powerful tools for improving your employee engagement. Let’s explore some key benefits of making the most of this platform:

  • Identify problems and issues faster: By running employee engagement surveys through Viva Glint, you ensure you’re really checking in with your team. This is the best way to identify any problems that need resolving. Employees are more likely to be candid about their experiences if they trust the feedback is anonymous, and so running surveys digitally, and with a trusted and transparent platform improves the accuracy of your data collection.
  • Deeper Insights into Employee Sentiment & Drivers: Viva Glint helps you identify a nuanced understanding of what motivates and engages your employees. Through robust survey mechanisms, open-ended feedback options, and AI-powered text analysis, Viva Glint affords you a granular level of insight into how your employees feel. 
  • Data-Driven Decision Making & Targeted Action: Ultimately better and more regular collection of employee feedback is the best way to make sure your decisions are targeting the specific painpoints facing your team. Instead of relying on gut feelings or anecdotal evidence, leaders are equipped with clear, concise reports and AI-powered suggestions. This ensures any action has the greatest possible effect on employee engagement.

How We Can Help

Retaining your best talent is vital for business success, and high employee engagement is the best way to achieve this. Disengaged employees cost businesses trillions annually, and are more likely to jump ship when the going gets tough. Improving employee engagement requires a deep and nuanced understanding of employee sentiment: what works well for them and what frustrates them in their daily work lives.

Microsoft Viva Glint, an AI-powered employee experience platform, provides the tools to do just that. Through smart surveys, interactive dashboards, and AI-driven analysis, Viva Glint helps organisations gather continuous feedback, identify areas for improvement, and take targeted action to boost engagement.

Ready to transform your employee experience and drive business success with Viva Glint? Get in touch with us today and we’ll help you configure the platform and provide you with the support needed to get the most out of your employee feedback!