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!

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.

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?

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.

Viva Engage has become a psychologically safe space at tertiary educator Box Hill Institute. Employees feel empowered to openly share their personal stories with their colleagues and feel supported. The data backs it up.

Using data from SWOOP Analytics to create monthly reports, posting those reports on Viva Engage and @mentioning people identified has created a new lifeblood in Viva Engage at consultancy company Bip.

Sharing Bad Dad Jokes was the boost Meridian Energy needed to kick-start its Viva Engage & Yammer network.

What makes the community so important is that it’s been an easy and entertaining way to introduce Viva Engage to hundreds of employees who had otherwise never engaged on an ESN.

Learn how connecting on Viva Engage helped employees in The Philippines continue to work from home during the COVID-19 pandemic, access fresh food, feel motivated and connected, all while helping others in need.

At Westpac New Zealand there has been a deliberate move away from traditional communication channels, like the intranet, to Viva Engage, where employees can engage in the content.

This has resulted in huge engagement numbers across Viva Engage and even measurable ROI on a home loan campaign.