MidDay Cafe

In this week’s MidDay Café hosts Tyrelle Barnes and Michael Gannotti are talking AI in Modern Work. The context around this discussion is an executive event that took place this week in New York City as well as the new web series The 12 Days of Copilot. To see the entire post, including resources, visit https://aka.ms/HLSBlog

It has been an incredible week of innovation coming out of the Microsoft Ignite conference and MidDay Café is coming in hot! In this week’s session we cover the great announcements coming out around Microsoft 365 services, Microsoft Viva announcements, as well as Microsoft 365 Copilot. After the video be sure to check out the resource links provided. Covered in this episode: Microsoft 365 o   Introducing Microsoft SharePoint Premium o   Introducing Copilot in Microsoft Stream o   Microsoft Clipchamp and app integrations for Microsoft Designer now available o   Microsoft Loop now generally available with updated features o   New Updates to Microsoft 365 for frontline workers o   The new Microsoft Planner brings together to-do’s, tasks, plans, and projects ·      Microsoft Viva o   Updates to Microsoft Viva and Amplify o   Microsoft 365 Chat integration and Copilot in Viva updates ·      Microsoft Copilot o  Bringing Copilot to everyone o  New capabilities in Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 o  Extend and enrich Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 with plugins and Connectors To see the entire episode, including resources,visit https://aka.ms/HLSBlog

Microsoft Skills in Viva is a newly announced feature of Microsoft Viva, a platform that integrates employee experience across four areas: engagement, well-being, learning, and knowledge. Skills in Viva allows employees to discover and develop new skills through personalized recommendations, learning paths, and micro-learning content. Skills in Viva also helps managers and leaders track the skill development and learning progress of their teams and organizations. In this week’s MidDay Café Microsoft’s Tyrelle Barnes and Michael Gannotti discuss Skills in Viva and the how and why it is being recognized as a true disruptor in the Employee Experience domain. To see the entire post, including resources, visit https://aka.ms/HLSBlog

In this MidDay Café hosts Tyrelle Barnes and Michael Gannotti walk through, and discuss, all that’s new in Microsoft Viva. Covered in this session: What’s New In Viva Connections? Viva Engage Updates What’s New in Viva Goals? Viva Amplify is here The New Viva Home Viva on the Web Skills in Viva Plus, along the way we talk about how I leveraged Microsoft 365 Copilot to save me from over 82K unread emails. To see the entire podcast, and resources, visit https://aka.ms/HLSBlog

The Microsoft Graph is foundational to the new Microsoft 365 Copilot. As the world’s largest dataset, it is the source of all information that feeds Microsoft 365 Copilot. With the addition of the Semantic Fabric and Graph Connectors it provides Microsoft 365 customers with an unbeatable wealth of information and usefulness right within the applications that users are already using today. In this MidDay Café Tyrelle Barnes and Michael Gannotti sit down with Microsoft’s Chantrelle Nielsen, Principal PM Manager, Microsoft Graph. They discuss the Graph and it’s significance, whether customers should build their own Copilots or leverage Microsoft’s out of the box Copilots, the Semantic Fabric, and Microsoft Graph Connectors. As always if you have questions or suggestions, please drop us a line on the blog posting of this show at https://aka.ms/HLSBlog   To see the entire podcast, including resources, visit https://aka.ma/HLSBlog

The data is in and in a do more with less reality today organizations that foster an engaged workforce are delivering better metrics than their counterparts, including in revenue generation. (see Work Trend Index 2023) Microsoft Viva Glint helps organizations create a culture of feedback and action. With Viva Glint organizations can see and analyze strengths and opportunities, compare benchmarks, and use suggested actions to drive business outcomes. In this MidDay Café hosts Tyrelle Barnes and Michael Gannotti host Principal People Science Manager, Justin Bethke, Microsoft Viva Glint. During the session Justin covers topics such as: • What is Glint and how does it fit into Microsoft Viva?: Justin explained that Glint is a tool to measure and improve employee experience and happiness, and that it was acquired by LinkedIn and then moved to Microsoft as part of Viva, the employee experience platform. • What are the trends and best practices in employee listening and surveying?: Justin shared that the frequency and cadence of surveys should depend on the business outcomes and problems that the organization is trying to solve, and that combining active and passive data (such as from Viva Insights) can provide more insights and actionability. • How to transition and transform to a newer approach of employee listening?: Justin suggested that organizations can start with smaller or more targeted surveys that match their talent or business rhythms, and that they should push the ownership and accountability of the results and actions to the lowest level possible, such as frontline managers. • How to leverage AI to assist in employee listening and action taking?: Justin mentioned that Microsoft Copilot, the AI engine, can help leaders and managers to analyze and interpret the survey data and comments, and to suggest next steps and actions based on the insights. • *(topics pulled from video using Copilot in Teams Meetings asking Copilot to recap the meeting) Microsoft Viva Glint has the potential to help transform an organization and it comes with the Microsoft Viva Suite. To see the entire post, including resources, visit https://aka.ms/HLSBlog

In this week’s episode of MidDay Café hosts Tyrelle Barnes and Michael Gannotti welcome special guest Chris Bortlik. Chris is a Principal Architect at the Boston MTC (Microsoft Technology Center) and he discusses the various offerings and methodology of the MTC designed to help organizations digitally transform their businesses in order to deliver an improved employee experience while increasing productivity as well as revenue. In this episode: • Happy Friday and welcome • What we’ve been up to • Special guest Chris Bortlik, Principal Architect, Boston MTC • Final thoughts • Wrap Up As always if you have questions or suggestions, please drop us a line on the blog posting of this show at https://aka.ms/HLSBlog To see the entire post, including video, visit https://aka.ms/HLSBlog

In this week’s episode of MidDay Café hosts Tyrelle Barnes and Michael Gannotti cover several topics that are top of mind with many. Namely they dive into Microsoft 365 Copilot readiness, security, compliance, as well as a dash of licensing costs and resources. In this episode: ·       Happy Friday and welcome ·       What we’ve been up to ·       How many Copilots? ·       Microsoft 365 Copilot readiness ·       Microsoft 365 Copilot security and compliance ·       Microsoft 365 Copilot resources and costs ·       Final thoughts ·       Wrap Up To see the entire post, including all the resources cited, visit https://aka.ms/HLSBlog

For this week’s MidDay Café hosts ⁠Tyrelle Barnes⁠ and ⁠Michael Gannotti⁠ were both remote and connected via Microsoft Teams. In this episode the two discussed the importance of a growth mindset for individuals and organizations. They then discussed the importance of a growth mindset in creating High Performance Organizations. Then they brought it home to discuss how the growing Microsoft Viva Suite maps to the elements of a High Performance Organization and how orgs can take advantage of the capabilities it provides for immediate gains. Finally, along the way updates to Copilot and Viva are discussed as well as a new addition to the Microsoft 365 family. Agenda: ·       Intros/Kickoff ·       We will also discuss a podcast Tyrelle recently listened to on Growth Mindset. ·       Microsoft Viva and High Performance Organizations. ·       Learn about the newly GA’d (General Availability) Viva Pulse as well the new Viva Insights Impact dashboard. ·       All that plus latest updates on Microsoft Viva and Microsoft 365 Copilot plus … a dash of the newly released Clipchamp for Microsoft 365! ·       Wrap Up As always if you have questions or suggestions, please drop us a line on the blog posting of this show at ⁠https://aka.ms/HLSBlog⁠  

  In this MidDay Café hosts Tyrelle Barnes and Michael Gannotti discuss the importance of gaining actionable insight into employee well-being and sentiment. Key in these type of organization efforts are Viva Insights, Glint, and Pulse. Take a listen and see how taking action can benefit your organization. In this episode: Podcast kickoff Viva Insights and Glint Employee Pulse Survey – Actionable Insight Employee Listening Strategy People Analytics Accessibility Measure > Communicate > Act More… As always if you have questions or suggestions, please drop us a line on the blog posting of this show at https://aka.ms/HLSBlog