Microsoft Viva Goals - Your Copilot enabled strategic goal setter

What would it look like if your organisation was all going in broadly the same direction?

Since 2022 atwe've been using Viva Goals to set our initial path at Lightrise.   We've even made sure our bonus objectives and internships are in here.   As a leader who places an emphasis on trust and results it's important to provide structure, so that as humans we can identify what joint success looks like. 

SMART objectives still seem to be a rare find in some places.  A SMART Goal is an objective/goal or Organisation Key Result (OKR), that is Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic and Timely.  Abiding to these quality standards is key to success.  Like any solution, if you put garbage in there, you'll get garbage out.  Put great things in however, and everyone knows the flows of the organisation where it's going and what you need to to to get there.  Easier said than done, in a larger organisation where challenges with performance and culture may also need to be considered to successfully roll a tool like this out.

Unlike many HR solutions, Viva Goals sits separately to your HRIS system.  If you have Azure Active Directory (recently renamed Entra) then you can set Viva Goals up.

   

Viva Goals provides true visual management and analytics, and as a lean SMB we wanted to remodel what management looks like and enable our solutions to take over the heavy lifting, save time, bring transparency and culture that matches it.

We sleep well knowing that Viva Goals is the one prompting the check-ins, and using it's latest Copilot features to suggest improvements, stronger measures and keep in constant contact with us as individuals and leaders to ensure we're on course for success.

Whether you are 3 in size or 300000, Viva Goals brings true scalability and low cost entry points to make it really easy to demonstrate a return on it's value.  

Thankyou Viva Goals, we've come so far thanks to your enablement of our company.  

Thinking about checking it out?

You may want to review your company's readiness by asking your IT department for the reports from the Microsoft Copilot Dashboard:

  

Are you Viva Copilot ready?  

About the writer:

Gareth Jones is CEO and Founder of Lightrise Consulting (www.lightriseconsulting.com) a specialist Microsoft Partner providing business answers and solutions to improve ESG and people experiences.