Jo finds balance with Viva Insights
Ahead of University Mental Health DayLink opens in a new window on 9 March, Jo Bishop shares her experience of using Viva Insights.
Jo Bishop, our Head of Estates Information and Systems, has been using Viva Insights to help find balance in her workday. Sending praise, planning in focus time and accessing guided meditation have all helped Jo to thrive and improve her wellbeing.
Jo said:
鈥淚 discovered Viva Insights a while ago, and use it to plan my day better, taking time away from constant Teams meetings, helps me to be more focused when I need to be.
鈥�滨鈥檓 always sending praise to people as it 诲辞别蝉苍鈥檛 cost anything and can go a long way.
鈥�The bit I love the most is the short, guided meditations and inspiration library 鈥� a great way to finish the day and create a boundary between work and home life.
鈥淚 love that Microsoft now offers to help us work in a balanced digital world and recognises the stresses this world can put us under.
Viva Insights is a Microsoft app available in Teams that can give you personalised insights into your working day and help you to develop habits that improve productivity and wellbeing.
You can find top tips on how to incorporate Viva Insights into your working day below.
Top tips for using Viva Insights
Viva Insights is an app available in Teams. To get there, you'll need to open Teams and select the three dots on the left side menu. From here, you should be able to see or search for the Viva Insights icon.
Book focus time鈥�
Do you have a project needing large chunks of time and focus? Viva Insights can help you鈥�鈥痙ays and weeks in advance鈥痓efore your calendar fills up with meetings. The focus plan also lets you configure your focus-plan settings:鈥�
- You can select how much focus time you would like to schedule every day.鈥�
- You can silence or allow chat notifications from Teams during focus time.鈥�
- You can create, configure, or end your focus plan at any time.鈥赌�
Send praise鈥赌�
All of us appreciate a heartfelt thank you. Viva Insights can help you regularly.鈥疨raise messages are shown as notifications in Teams. You can have a praise message delivered in a private chat, or for wider recognition, in a Teams channel conversation. 鈥�
Start a virtual commute鈥�
Whether you're at home or on campus, you can bring closure to your workday with Viva Insights'鈥�.鈥疺irtual commute helps you to close out tasks or set reminders for follow-up, provide a preview for the next day, reflect, or help wind down with a guided meditation.鈥�
Schedule send suggestions鈥�
奥颈迟丑鈥�, you can help minimise email disruptions to your colleagues outside their working hours or when they are away from work. Suggestions appear when you are composing an email after hours in Outlook to propose send times that align with your colleagues' working hours.鈥赌�
Establish quiet time鈥�
To help create better boundaries between personal life and work life, Viva Insights offers鈥�. You can configure quiet time to silence mobile notifications from Outlook and Teams outside of your normal working hours.鈥赌�
