From getting new leaders to record a video of themselves answering random questions to Lady Whistledown posts, it’s easy to see why Westpac New Zealand ranks as one of the world’s top performing Viva Engage networks.

A stuffed bear has had a major impact at Transport for NSW. It’s responsible for getting people to use Viva Engage, and in doing so, connect people across an entire organisation and state, breaking down departmental hierarchies, and creating measurable business value.

It’s the stories about people that colleagues want to read about on Victoria Police’s intranet. They’re the yarns that receive the greatest engagement, and get people onto the intranet. But how do you find them?

Learn how The NRMA created an enterprise-wide wrap of how leaders and team members are using Viva Engage, and how you can do so too!

If you’re working in the Microsoft 365 ecosystem, chances are you’ve been asked why you need Viva Engage when you’re already using Microsoft Teams.

Couldn’t you just have a large team on Microsoft Teams and eliminate the need to switch between the two platforms?

At Aggreko, the intranet is targeted to each and every audience. By enabling audience targeting, specific content is prioritised to specific audiences and it’s been a game changer in getting employees more engaged on the intranet.

If you want to reach every employee at global investment services provider IFM Investors, forget about sending an all-employee email. Instead, post on Viva Engage.

With more than 80 stores scattered across one of the largest countries on the planet, Medibank’s frontline team members are some of the most connected and engaged in the world thanks to their vibrant Viva Engage community.

Aggreko, the global leader in providing energy solutions, has replaced the news feed on its SharePoint intranet with the Viva Engage All Company feed so every employee becomes an editor with the power to share stories.

At Christian Aid, almost every employee reads Viva Engage because a decision was made to make it the primary communications tool. Leaders and staff are banned from sending all company emails, and instead must communicate through announcements on Viva Engage.

When the CIO of a major bank made the decision to move away from email updates and embrace Viva Engage for authentic, two-way connections, it took just a month for him to become one of the most influential people in the entire organisation.

There are three key purposes for using Viva Engage at Engage Squared. 1. Showcasing the completion of successful projects and sharing lessons learned. 2. Nurturing a culture of sharing and connectedness. 3. Reward and recognition.

We look at the physical, as well as the digital, needs of successful hybrid work. It’s time to turn your office space into a collaboration, or gathering, space so your employees want to return to the physical workplace, but not fulltime.

Transport for NSW shares how a successful external social media campaign also proved successful as an internal comms campaign on Viva Engage.

Do you question why Viva Engage is needed when you could just have a large team on Microsoft Teams and eliminate the need to switch between the two platforms?

UK telco Virgin Media O2 tells how it uses M365 tools to give frontline workers a voice, reaching all the way to the CEO and resulting in company-wide changes.

Within days of launching a new out-of-the-box SharePoint Online intranet, the average time spent on agri-tech organisation Syngenta’s intranet home page increased from 0.3 seconds to two minutes and 40 seconds.

How did they do it?

Overwhelmed with the amount of documentation and conversation in Microsoft Teams chat, teams at New Zealand Trade and Enterprise made the conscious decision to create Microsoft Teams channels to centralise their work.

Imagine being an English-speaking software developer tasked with creating an app completely in Japanese, while living in New Zealand.

That’s exactly what Engage Squared manged to achieve by working collaboratively in Microsoft Teams.

We love to share case studies showcasing best practice so you can learn from the best. Let’s face it, best practice starts with better practice and it’s arguably just as important to show how better practice is the first step to achieving best practice.