Now Available: Microsoft Viva Glint 360 Feedback

In today’s dynamic work environment, continuous development and self-awareness are critical and crucial to employees and their personal and professional growth. Viva Glint 360 can provide tremendous value to leaders and high-potential employees through increased self-awareness, improved performance, learning and growth opportunities, and help organizations achieve their business and engagement goals.

360 Feedback is available now and is included with Viva Glint. It streamlines the 360 ​​process, making it easier for HR teams to manage programs, for evaluators to provide feedback, and for employees to interpret and take action on the results. Take a quick look at how it works, and read on to learn more.

What is the Microsoft Viva Glint 360 Feedback Program?

360-degree feedback, commonly known as multi-rater feedback or multi-source evaluation, is a process in which employees receive feedback from a variety of sources, including their supervisor, peers, direct reports, and even themselves. This comprehensive approach provides employees with a comprehensive view of their strengths and opportunities, providing valuable insights that cannot be obtained from a single perspective.

Viva Glint 360 Feedback is designed for personal growth and development, not performance management. Making the 360 ​​developmentally focused helps increase honesty and reduce peer bias that may influence the outcome of the feedback to the participant’s advantage or disadvantage.

Customers use Viva Glint 360 for a variety of requirements.

• High-potential/high-impact development: 360 can help you grow and retain high-potential and high-impact talent. Whether focused on individuals or groups of leaders, organizations often incorporate 360 ​​into their executive or emerging leader programs.
• Point-by-point development: Organizations can collect 360s annually for a broader subset of employees, such as mid-level managers. Feedback will focus on competencies or behaviors that drive performance and development.
• Event-driven development: Using 360 to provide development feedback after specific events or experiences, such as completing a large project, is becoming increasingly popular.

Viva Glint 360 is built on a methodology backed by the latest organizational research and best practices. Viva Glint’s People Science team conducted extensive research on academic research, commercial 360 models, and organizational capability frameworks. The result was an 18-item off-the-shelf 360 survey and 24 alternative items. Our 360 program was tested and validated by the People Science team to ensure that the program was comprehensive and reliable.

How it applies to employees

Managers assign employees to 360 program subjects. As a 360 subject, employees complete self-assessments and ask for feedback from a variety of others, including their managers, direct reports (if they are people managers), and other collaborators. The 360 ​​program shares a variety of perspectives on how they work with the people they work with. They can compare their assessments with peer feedback, and the goal of the 360 ​​is to help them increase their self-awareness of their core strengths, opportunities, and the impact they have on others. This is a foundational step toward professional growth and meaningful change. For more information about how this works for employees, see: Click here.

Viva Glint 360 provides in-product guidance to streamline the process for both evaluators and employees receiving feedback. Evaluators are stimulated through thought-starting tools and in-line guidance designed to reduce bias and the need for extensive training. Employees use interactive reporting and in-platform coaching to interpret feedback, quickly identify strengths and opportunities, and easily create development goals.

Benefits for employees:

• Increased self-awareness – Employees gain a better understanding of how their behaviors and attitudes are perceived by others, which leads to increased self-awareness and personal growth.
• Improved Performance – By identifying their strengths and areas for improvement, employees can focus on specific skills and behaviors that can enhance their growth and performance.

How it works for HR managers

HR teams can execute the entire 360 ​​process by automating key processes including set-up, communication, response tracking, follow-up, report generation, evaluator selection, and automatic notification setup.

• Managers or HRBPs can set up 360, but managers cannot. Managers/HRBPs can also set up the entire 360 ​​process for busy leaders, minimizing the amount of work required from executives. This includes selecting all raters and setting up automatic reminders for raters to provide feedback.
• Assign a Coach: Only administrators can initiate 360. Assign anyone in your HRIS system as a coach for a subject and receive email notifications when one of the subject’s 360 reports is available.

Benefits for HR Managers

• Save time by automating key HR tasks across 360 processes.
• Develop more leaders by easily executing 360-degree campaigns to more people across your organization.
• We connect key areas through participatory surveys and 360-degree research to encourage sustained action across development initiatives.

360 program settings

Customers have unlimited access to 360 and can run multiple 360 ​​programs in parallel. The number and content of survey questions can vary, for example, questions for managers and more in-depth questions for executives. To ensure success, the 360 ​​process should:

• Intentional: Clearly define the purpose of the feedback process and align it with real business needs and organizational values.
• Relevance: Make sure your feedback process is relevant to your employees’ work and development journey.
• Support: Provide support to both evaluators and participants to ensure effective feedback and understanding of the process.
• Sustainable: Integrate development goals into other organizational practices to encourage accountability and follow-up.

Summary and Resources

Viva Glint 360s empowers every organization to develop more leaders by providing relevant feedback, actionable insights into strengths and opportunities, and a platform that enables sustainable growth. Maximize the benefits of 360-degree feedback and foster a culture of continuous improvement and development.

There are many resources available to learn more about the benefits, design, and setup of the Viva Glint 360s. For more information on setting up the program, see the following useful links: