Viva Insights Teamwork habits, which is part of the premium Viva Insights experience, allows managers to gain additional recommendations for managing people. Teamwork habits helps managers identify regular after-hours work, meeting overload conditions, and lack of dedicated focus time.
Managers can set up teams by manually adding users, or can use the suggested list if the manager property has been populated in Azure Active Directory. See Figure 1.27:
Figure 1.27 – Confirming team members
Three additional core features of Teamwork habits are the following:
- Scheduling recurring 1:1 times with managed employees
- Analyzing quiet hours impact to determine how work habits impact employees outside of their configured working hours
- Configuring shared plans for no-meeting days and shared focus times
Organizations that utilize the Teamwork habits tools can improve their employees’ well-being and work-life balance. The Teamwork habits feature requires a premium Microsoft Viva Insights license.
Organization Trends
The My organization tab shows organization trends as well as business leader and manager insights to help understand how to effectively manage your teams. Insights include such as identifying work patterns and suggestions for boosting employee engagement. See Figure 1.28:
Figure 1.28 – Organization trends
Organization trends data is privacy-oriented, requiring a minimum of 10 people (including the manager) to be in the management chain, either directly or indirectly. In addition, access to Organization trends requires granting access to manager insights through the Viva setup.
Advanced Insights
Microsoft Viva advanced insightsis a reporting tool that provides research-based behavioral insights into organizational work patterns, such as hybrid work, work-life balance, and employee well-being.
The advanced insights reporting tools come with a number of built-in templates and analysis tools to really help organizations understand everything from meeting effectiveness to employee performance trends correlated to 1:1 manager meetings. The Manager coaching report, which is part of Viva Insights, is shown in Figure 1.29:
Figure 1.29 – Viva Insights Manager coaching report
With large organizational changes such as hybrid and remote work scenarios, it can be important to understand how those work patterns affect performance, including interesting data points such as how much time is spent during meetings multitasking or how much work is getting done outside normal business hours.
- Implementing and Managing a Microsoft 365 Tenant
Information about working hours is available in the Work-life balance and flex work report (part of the Hybrid workforce experience reporting section), shown in Figure 1.30:
Figure 1.30 – Advanced insights working hour details
The advanced insights Power BI report templates provide an analysis of employee engagement and work patterns. The reports include the following:
- Business resilience: Overall business report highlighting performance and employee well-being.
- Hybrid workforce experience: This report highlights how different work modes (onsite, hybrid, and remote) affect workers.
- Manager effectiveness: Provides insight into patterns exhibited by people managers.
- Meeting effectiveness: These reports capture and display information on meeting statistics such as how many meetings happen on short notice or how much multitasking occurs during meetings.
- Ways of working: This data helps answer questions such asare employees receiving enough 1:1 coaching time? and who generates the most work by organizing meetings?
- Wellbeing – balance and flexibility: Reporting data used to identify whether employees have enough time to focus on core priorities and can balance that with breaks and time away from work.
- For more information on the advanced insights templates and their reporting capabilities, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/viva/insights/advanced/ analyst/templates/introduction-to-templates.
