Join us for our first in-person&nbsp;Viva Explorers Community Day Toronto 2022&nbsp;event on&nbsp;Friday, December 2nd, 2022&nbsp;at the&nbsp;Microsoft Canada HQ's&nbsp;located at&nbsp;<a href="https://www.google.com/maps/place/CIBC+Square/@43.6440033,-79.3775405,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x89d4cb8f049d02df:0xfb56581a6336e109!8m2!3d43.6440033!4d-79.3775405" target="_blank">CIBC Square, 81 Bay St., Toronto</a>.
“Flexible work is here to stay. Many Leaders are out of touch with employees and need a wake-up call. High productivity is masking an exhausted workforce.” Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft.
People are the heart and soul of every modernization project and need to be front of mind working in a Hybrid workplace.
Many organizations still assume Teams is the same as Skype for Business with remote meetings, chat, and telephony. Many have not enabled Team Channels, where you find deep project collaboration driving productivity.
Microsoft responded in Feb 2021, announcing Microsoft Viva, reimagined, cost-effective modules with AI and machine learning. Cross-business integrated solutions to improve employee and org
<ul><li>Connections&nbsp;(Viva Connections, Viva Engage) - Keep everyone informed, included, and inspired</li><li>Insight&nbsp;(Viva Insights, Viva Sales) - Improve productivity and wellbeing with actionable insights</li><li>Purpose&nbsp;(Viva Goals) - Align people’s work to team and organizational goals</li><li>Growth&nbsp;(Viva Learning, Viva Topics) - Help people learn, grow, and succeed</li></ul>
At the time of writing, seven modules are globally accessible and more are coming. The&nbsp;<a href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/microsoft-viva" target="_blank">Viva Suite</a>&nbsp;gives you so much more value for your business.

About Microsoft 365 Toronto Events
Microsoft 365 Toronto&nbsp;hosts event that are educational, informative, and lively day filled with sessions from respected professionals and MVPs, covering a wide variety of Microsoft 365-orientated topics.
We look forward to seeing you on so make sure to bring a print out of your registration for streamlined access to the express registration line into a full day of amazing content from local and international speakers bringing their real world experience to share with you

organized by the community and powered by Microsoft 365 Collaboration group (<a href="https://www.meetup.com/m365toronto/" target="_blank">register and join the conversation</a>)

Viva Explorers Community Day Toronto 2022

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There has never been a time where improving the employee experience has been more critical. Organizations need new and innovative approaches and solutions as work and the workforce change. Today, every organization shares a need to enhance how we communicate and engage, collaborate and connect, and manage and develop employees. The question often hard to answer is, what is the best way to meet that growing need, especially in a way that meets it faster, with less cost and risk?

Join internationally recognized industry expert and Microsoft MVP Richard Harbridge as he shares insight into the future of employee communication, employee collaboration, and employee management, how Microsoft 365 is changing these digital employee experiences and perhaps more importantly, what organizations are doing today to prepare for it.


Getting The Most Out Of Microsoft 365 Employee Experience: Today & Tomorrow

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Viva Connections is core to the Microsoft employee experience and serves as a gateway to an organization's modern SharePoint intranet. Viva Connections is more than a Microsoft Teams shortcut to SharePoint, it includes a dashboard and feed that allow employees to become better informed and take action within the context of where they are working.

In this session we cover the basics of getting started with Viva Connections, including the creation and configuration of the Dashboard and the Feed components.

Getting started with Viva Connections

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These past few years have accelerated changes and disrupted how companies lead, enable, empower, and engage around communications. Leaders in corporate communications, human resources, and IT are all tackling new challenges in connecting with employees who no longer regularly share the same workspace and may be overwhelmed with increased communication volume, velocity, and variety.

We have been catapulted into a new employee experience paradigm, and it can be challenging to get our bearings. We now need to plan for the future, but it can be hard to consider the future when the present is filled with unique and pressing communication challenges. Yet, the future of communication may hold answers to problems we are experiencing today; it may inspire us to change and, perhaps most importantly, enable us to understand how to prepare to embrace a better one.

Join Brandon Pittman, an award-winning Digital Workplace Strategist and digital employee experience enthusiast, as he shares best practices in extending the reach and impact of communications through Microsoft Viva applications like, Connections, Engage and Amplify, to improve employee experience.

Extending Corporate Communications Reach and Impact

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Microsoft Viva is a new kind of employee experience platform designed for the digital era! In this session we will have a deep dive into Viva Connections and learn how it can help employees in your organization stay connected. We will explore the Viva Connections Dashboards and the client experience. 

At the end of the session, we will explore Viva Topics and how it tightly integrates with your Viva Connections implementation. 


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The future workplace needs to consider how the employee experience landscape is changing and the importance of digital experiences throughout the employee journey. The employee experience journey starts before the employee is hired and lasts after they depart. Focusing on the employee experience can feel daunting when reviewing the many stages of an employee’s journey. Still, understanding and improving these stages can lead to a much more positive employee experience and maximize employee retention, impact, engagement, and performance. 

So how does an organization successfully plan, outline, and drive change in their employee experience and the stages of their employee’s journeys? Join internationally recognized industry expert and Microsoft MVP Richard Harbridge as he shares insight into the future workplace and practical guidance, solutions, and ideas on how organizations are improving today as they prepare for the future workplace of tomorrow.