Microsoft Viva Goals
Create a purpose-driven culture where teams align to achieve results
Empower each person to understand their impact and keep priorities top of mind.
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Create clarity and stay aligned at scale
Connect employees and teams to your organization’s top goals, help them understand their impact, and ensure cross-functional alignment.
Easily create, approve, and align on OKRs
Create new OKRs or start with built-in templates and define success at all levels with approval workflows and flexible views.
Foster an aligned, purpose-driven work culture
Gain visibility into goals across your business with organizational, team, and individual views, and focus teams on your most critical priorities.
Back to tabsConnect projects and tasks to OKRs
See how your team’s daily work impacts your organization’s key priorities and connect OKRs to the work systems your team is already using.
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Focus teams on impact, not output
Focus discussions, provide context, and simplify reporting on progress with custom dashboards and dynamically updated OKRs.
Keep everyone focused on high-impact work
Make it easy to view and share progress, and enable check-ins and nudges in Microsoft Teams.
Present on progress at meetings
Share progress, context, lessons, and next steps with employees using customizable presentation templates.
Back to tabsHelp employees stay focused
Connect daily work to organization and team goals using interoperations with Teams, Azure DevOps, Jira, Asana, Tableau, and other apps.
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Keep goals front and center
Encourage conversation and collaboration around goals and help everyone thrive in the hybrid workplace.
Stay in the flow of work
Promote a purpose-driven culture with the Viva Goals app in Teams and Azure Dev Ops.
Rally conversation around goals
Communicate, collaborate, and check in on goals with the message extension in Teams chat.
Back to tabsKeep track of progress at all times
Increase visibility into goals and progress with integrations into critical work systems like Teams, Azure DevOps, Jira, Tableau, and ZenDesk.
See Viva Goals in action
Learn more about experiences that help teams come together to achieve results.
See how thousands of Microsoft employees are using Viva Goals
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How the OKR methodology took root at Microsoft, team by team
Learn how teams throughout Microsoft use OKRs to drive company objectives like growth, diversity, and employee wellbeing.
How Microsoft is driving organization-wide adoption of Viva Goals
Learn how Microsoft is programmatically deploying Viva Goals across the entire organization and seeing massive impact.
Implementing OKRs with Viva Goals and engaging employees
Learn tactical tips for removing roadblocks and creating an engaged, productive workforce from the OKR Enterprise Accelerator Team at Microsoft.
See how customers are using Viva Goals
“Introducing Viva Goals and objectives and key results (OKRs) has been a huge step forward in both the digital and cultural transformation of our business.”Chris Hoard, Partner Edu Lead, Vuzion
“Viva Goals has helped us operationalize more effective goal planning and management so we can drive maximum impact at every level, from leadership to managers to individual contributors.”
Justin McPhee, CSO, Engage Squared
Features and pricing
Microsoft Viva in Microsoft 365
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in Microsoft 365 and Office 365 plans for enterprise
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Some employee experience features are included in Microsoft 365 and Office 365 plans for enterprise.
Microsoft Viva Goals
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All the employee experience features included in Microsoft 365, plus:
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OKR workflows and templates
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Shared OKR dashboards
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Integrations with critical tools and data sources
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SSO capabilities, data encryption, enterprise-grade privacy, and advanced permissions
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Advanced OKR configurations with customizable weights and scoring guidance
Microsoft Viva Suite
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Everything in Viva Goals, plus:
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Viva Learning to seamlessly integrate access to learning content into the places employees already spend their time
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Viva Insights to improve productivity and wellbeing with data-driven, privacy-protected insights
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Viva Topics to connect, manage, and protect knowledge from across your organization
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Microsoft Viva Goals
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Create, manage, align, and customize objective and key results (OKR) workflows with templates and automated check-ins
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Boost your business rhythms with OKRs using shared dashboard and advanced insights
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Bring goals into the flow of everyday work with the Viva Goals app in Teams and Azure DevOps, and the messaging extension in Teams chat
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See and automatically update OKRs and projects within the project management and data management tools you already use
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Get enterprise scale and security with single sign-on (SSO) capabilities, data encryption, enterprise-grade privacy, and advanced permissions
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Use advanced OKR configurations with customizable weights and scoring guidance
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Microsoft Viva Connections
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Customize Viva Connections with your company branding
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Create a centralized destination that’s personalized for employees
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Provide a unified communications channel to aggregate and share essential information
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Target communications and dashboard items to individuals or groups
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Boost critical items to maximize exposure
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Build a modern employee experience on your existing infrastructure
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Integrate with partner providers and human resources systems
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Create custom adaptive cards to connect to your existing applications
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Access all the Viva apps, personalized dashboard, news feed, and resources in one place with the Viva Connections home experience for desktop
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Microsoft Viva Engage
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Create and join employee communities
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Post and pin announcements
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Start a variety of conversation types
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Find insights about community or conversation engagement
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Post questions, crowdsource solutions, and mark best answers
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Create, find, and follow storyline posts
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Create, find, and follow stories
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Ask questions, find answers that already exist, or route questions to people who can provide an answer
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Engage directly in content from leaders, including discussions, events, campaigns, and recent activity
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Drive engagement through open conversations using Q&A-style “Ask Me Anything” events
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Publish storyline posts and stories on behalf of another user
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Create and manage organization-wide campaigns
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Microsoft Viva Learning
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Access Viva Learning in Microsoft Teams
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Access full Microsoft Learn and Microsoft 365 Training libraries and 125 LinkedIn Learning courses2
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Search, share, and chat about learning content
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Create Viva Learning tabs in Teams channels on the Teams desktop app
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Bring organization-generated learning content hosted in SharePoint to Viva Learning with SharePoint integration
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Recommend content and track reported completion progress3
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Integrate with partner content providers
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Integrate with learning management systems
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Surface learning content in Microsoft Search across Bing.com, Microsoft365.com, and SharePoint.com4
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Add learning content to calendar with suggested time slots3
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Create learning paths and collections3
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Get SharePoint integration support for external linked objects
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Microsoft Viva Insights
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Get personal insights with the Viva Insights app in Teams and web apps
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Get personal insights in digest emails from Microsoft Viva
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Get personal insights in the Viva Insights add-in in Outlook
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Access premium personal experiences including meeting effectiveness surveys, praise sharing and trends, and focus mode in Teams
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Support healthy collaboration with plans for scheduled emails, effective meetings, recurring time booking, shared focus time, and no-meeting days
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Lead strong teams with manager insights
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Identify trends across the enterprise with leader insights
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Use a library of prebuilt reports, custom analysis tools, and accelerators to generate deep insights about the organization
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Microsoft Viva Topics
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Intelligently connect and consolidate information for a consistent search experience across your organization with Microsoft Graph connectors
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Find experts across the organization
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Learn about a topic, its subject matter experts, and documentation through topic center, cards, and pages
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Access Viva Topics across Microsoft 365 apps such as SharePoint, Teams, Outlook, Viva Engage, and Microsoft Search
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Ask questions, find answers that already exist, or route questions to people who can provide an answer
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Microsoft 365The features with checkmarks in this column are included in Microsoft 365 and Office 365 plans for enterprise. |
Microsoft Viva GoalsOriginally starting from $6.00 now starting from $6.00 $6.00 $6.00 user/month (Annual subscription–auto renews)1 |
Frequently asked questions
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The Viva Goals license includes access to the Viva Goals app in Teams and the Viva Goals web app. Use these apps to:
- Create, manage, align, and customize OKR workflows with OKR templates, automated check-ins, and advanced insights.
- Boost business rhythms with OKRs using shared dashboards and advanced insights.
- Connect work to outcomes with deep integrations to tasks, projects, and embedded OKR views.
- Integrate into critical tools, such as Teams, Slack, and Glip, to enable automated OKR check-ins.
- Get enterprise scale and security with single sign-on (SSO) capabilities, data encryption, enterprise-grade privacy, and advanced permissions.
- Use advanced OKR configurations with customizable weights and scoring guidance.
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Viva Goals is available as an app in Microsoft Teams and as a web app. The Viva Goals web app has no prerequisites—customers can purchase and use Viva Goals with the web app without any other Microsoft product or subscription.
A Microsoft Teams product license is a prerequisite to use the Viva Goals app in Teams. Teams can be licensed with:
- Microsoft 365 F1, F3, E3, A3, E5, A5.
- Office 365 F3, E1, A1, E3, A3, E5, A5.
- Microsoft 365 Business Basic, Business Standard, Business Premium.
- Microsoft SharePoint K, Plan 1, or Plan 2 license.
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In October 2021, Microsoft acquired Ally.io, a leading OKR company. With Viva Goals, Microsoft invested further into Ally.io capabilities to improve integrations with Microsoft Teams and weave Ally.io into Viva, Azure DevOps, Power BI, Microsoft Planner and Project. There will be more integrations with a broader set of Microsoft 365 applications and services over time in addition to partner integrations. See the full list of data integrations in Viva Goals documentation.
Microsoft has also invested in Viva Goals to ensure it delivers on enterprise scale and security requirements with features including single sign-on (SSO) capabilities, data encryption, enterprise-grade privacy, and advanced permissions.
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Yes, Viva Goals is now available in all Microsoft global markets.
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Viva Goals currently supports 11 languages: English (US), French (France), Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish (Spain), Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Estonian, German, Italian, Japanese, and Korean. By the end of March 2023, we will support 27 Microsoft 365 languages that are written left to right.
Implementation and support
FastTrack
Get help enabling Microsoft Viva and the foundational capabilities in Microsoft 365 that support employee experiences.
Additional resources
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Forrester 2023 State of Goal-Setting Report
Learn the latest trends in goal setting and management from enterprise organizations across the globe.
Help employees see their impact
Vetri Vellore, Corporate Vice President of Microsoft Viva Goals, shares how OKRs can help everyone understand why their contributions matter.
Enhance performance and productivity
Explore how to drive better business outcomes and engage your workforce with Viva.
Microsoft Viva for Microsoft Partners
Explore tailored resources to learn more about the Employee Experience opportunity.
Motivation Matters
Learn how to gain a competitive edge by building a company culture that fosters a sense of belonging, ownership, and inspiration.
Engage Your Employees
Learn how OKRs can help increase employee engagement, focus, and productivity while driving business goals.
Empower people and teams to be their best
Viva Goals is part of Microsoft Viva, the employee experience platform designed to help people connect, focus, learn, and thrive at work.
- [*] Save 25 percent when you buy before July 1, 2023.
- [1] After your paid subscription begins, cancellation policies vary based on your status as a new customer and your product and domain selections on Microsoft. Learn how to cancel your Microsoft 365 subscription, and cancel it anytime in the Microsoft 365 admin center. When a subscription is canceled, all associated data will be deleted. Learn more about data retention, deletion, and destruction in Microsoft 365.
- [2] Customers with a LinkedIn Enterprise subscription can access the entire LinkedIn Learning library.
- [3] Available in the Viva Learning desktop app.
- [4] Requires a minimum of one purchased license for admins to enable Viva Learning content in Microsoft Search for their entire tenant.
