Now Available: Microsoft Viva Glint 360 Feedback

August 26

In today's dynamic work environment, continuous development and self-awareness are critical and crucial for employees and their personal and professional growth. Viva Glint 360s can provide leaders and high potential employees with tremendous value, such as increased self-awareness, enhanced performance, opportunities to learn and grow, and help organizations achieve their business and engagement goals.

360 Feedback is available now and included with Viva Glint. We’ve streamlined the 360 process making it easy for HR teams to manage programs, raters to give feedback and employees to interpret results and take action. Take a quick look at how it works and read on for more details.

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[HEADING=1]What is Microsoft Viva Glint 360 Feedback Program[/HEADING]

360-degree feedback, typically known as multi-rater feedback or multi-source assessment, is a process where employees receive feedback from various sources, including their supervisors, peers, direct reports, and even themselves. This comprehensive approach provides the employee with a well-rounded view of their strengths and opportunities, offering them valuable insights that a single perspective cannot.

Viva Glint 360 Feedback is designed for personal growth and development, not performance management. Ensuring 360s are developmentally focused helps increase candor and reduce bias from colleagues trying to influence the outcomes of the feedback in favor of or against the participant.

Customers use Viva Glint 360s for a variety of needs:

High-potential or high-impact development: 360s can help grow and retain high-potential and high-impact talent. Whether focused on an individual or a group of leaders, organizations often embed 360s into executive or emerging leader programs.
Point-in-time development: Organizations can collect 360s annually for a broader subset of employees, like mid-level leaders. The feedback would focus on the competencies or behaviors that drive performance and development.
Event-based development: It is becoming increasingly popular to use 360s to provide developmental feedback after a specific event or experience, such as the completion of a large-scale project.

Viva Glint 360s are built on a methodology backed by the latest organizational research and best practices. Viva Glint’s People Science team conducted a comprehensive study of academic research, commercial 360 models, and organizational competency frameworks. This resulted in our 18-item, out-of-the-box 360 survey, along with 24 alternate items. Our 360 program has been tested and validated by our People Science team to ensure the program is both comprehensive and reliable.

How it works for employees

Admins assign employees to become a 360-program subject. As a 360 subject, employees complete a self-assessment and request feedback from various others such as their manager, direct reports (if a people manager) and other collaborators. A 360 program shares different viewpoints about the way they work from the people they work with. They can compare their assessment against peer feedback; and the goal of the 360 is to help them increase self-awareness around key strengths, opportunities, and the impact they have on others. It is a foundational step toward professional growth and meaningful change. For more information on how this works for employees, click here.

Viva Glint 360s provide in-product guidance to streamline the process for both the rater and employee receiving the feedback. Raters are prompted through thought-starters and in-line guidance designed to reduce bias and the need for extensive training. Employees use interactive reporting and in-platform coaching to help interpret their feedback, quickly identify strengths and opportunities, and easily create development goals.

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Benefits for employees:

Increased Self-Awareness - Employees gain a better understanding of how their actions and behaviors are perceived by others, leading to increased self-awareness and personal growth.
Enhanced Performance - By identifying strengths and areas for improvement, employees can focus on specific skills and behaviors that will enhance their growth and performance.

How it works for HR admins

HR teams can run the entire 360 process through automation of key processes such as set-up, communication, response tracking, follow-up, and report generation, including selecting raters and setting up automated reminders.

An admin or HRBP can set up the 360, but a manager cannot. The admin/HRBP can also set up the entire 360 process for a busy leader to minimize the work needed by the executive. This includes selecting all their raters and setting up automated reminders for raters to provide feedback.
Coach Designation: Only admins can launch 360s. Anyone in your HRIS system can be designated as a subject’s coach and be notified by email when one of their subject’s 360 reports is available.

Benefits for HR admins

Automate key HR tasks in the 360 process and save time.
Launch 360s easily to more people in your organization to develop more leaders.
Connect focus areas across engagement surveys and 360s, to encourage ongoing action-taking across development initiatives.

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[HEADING=1]Setting up your 360 program[/HEADING]

Customers have unlimited access to 360s and can run multiple 360 programs in parallel. The number and content of survey questions can differ, for example, one for managers and a more in-depth one for executives. To ensure success, the 360s process should be:

Intentional: Clearly define the purpose of the feedback process and align it with actual business needs and organizational values.
Relevant: Ensure the feedback process is relevant to the employee's job and development journey.
Supportive: Provide support to both the raters and the participants to ensure effective feedback and understanding of the process.
Ongoing: Integrate developmental goals into other organizational practices to encourage accountability and follow-through.

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With Viva Glint 360s, any organization can develop more leaders by providing them with relevant feedback, actionable insights about strengths and opportunities, and a platform that makes sustainable growth possible. Maximize the benefits of 360-degree feedback and foster a culture of continuous improvement and development.

We have a lot of resources to learn more about the benefits, design and setup for Viva Glint 360s. For more information on program set up, here are some helpful links:

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