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.

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It has been an incredible week of innovation coming out of

Covered in this episode:

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

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o   Updates to Microsoft Viva and Amplify

o   Microsoft 365 Chat integration and Copilot in Viva updates

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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

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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.

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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:

Plus, along the way we talk about how I leveraged Microsoft 365 Copilot to save me from over 82K unread emails.

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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.

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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.

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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

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In this week’s episode of MidDay Café hosts Tyrelle Barnes

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

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For this week’s MidDay Café hosts ⁠Tyrelle Barnes⁠

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

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  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:

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