Viva Glint program types and associated templates

Viva Glint believes ongoing, frequent communications to solicit and collect employee feedback is crucial to an organization's success. Viva Glint offers engagement programs as a way for customers to send short, targeted surveys to their employees which deliver rich insights. These insights translate into actionable opportunities to improve business.

Engagement is the degree to which employees invest their cognitive, emotional, and behavioral energies toward positive organizational outcomes. Engagement correlates with job satisfaction, commitment, involvement, motivation, and attrition.

In addition to Engagement survey programs , Viva Glint customers can opt into Employee Lifecycle programs.

Our Viva People Science team continually updates survey items and develops templates to provide meaningful insights into the current world of work.

Two categories of surveys

Within our survey programs, there are two overarching types to consider implementing:

Survey type	Description
Organizational survey	Often administered by a global HR (Human Resources) team and sent to all employees on a recurring cadence
Business unit survey	Often administered by a core business team, HR team, or a local business leader with the goal of obtaining more specific information for a particular business unit

Survey frequency

Viva Glint programs are available for different cadences that you set as an admin and can run simultaneously, when appropriate.

Types of surveys

Use Viva Glint programs to create feedback habits and support continuous employee and organizational development.

Survey type	Description
Recurring engagement or special topic	Surveys should be recurring so that data can be compared from between cycles and trend can be established. Recurring surveys are set to go live at a scheduled cadence. Special topic templates include culture, manager effectiveness, and more.
Ad hoc	Measure something out of the ordinary at an impactful time.
Always-On feedback	Provide feedback and suggestions anytime it feels relevant.

Blank survey templates are available for all survey types, as well.

Viva Glint preset templates

Viva Glint offers prescribed templates and a blank template option for each type of program.

Template name	Type	Purpose	Recommended frequency	Target groups for results	Feedback providers
Engagement survey template	Recurring	Measure key drivers of engagement from research-based Viva People Success Elements, which are critical for employees being happy and successful at work.	Recurring: Recommended quarterly as this includes all core engagement items, creating a solid engagement baseline. Recommended as a first introduction to Viva Glint programs within your organization and can be set to a customized cadence.	Managers and teams	All eligible employees
Onboarding template	Employee Lifecycle	Provides an opportunity to check in with newcomers and understand what is going well and any challenges with their onboarding experience	Automatically triggered at a key moment. Recommend having at least two onboarding surveys at specific points in time (for example, 30 days, 45 days, 60 days, and/or 90 days)	Human Resource leaders and managers	New hires
Exit survey template	Employee Lifecycle	Provides data for why people leave and their perceptions of the organization as they transition	Automatically triggered at a key moment	Human Resource leaders and managers	Departing employees
Microsoft Copilot Impact Survey template	Special topic	Measures the impact of Microsoft Copilot through sentiment data, enabling IT and business leaders to plan their AI readiness, drive adoption, and measure their ROI	Recurring	All roles	All roles
Culture survey template	Special topic	Uses Viva People Science team's measurable elements of current culture that are important to driving people and organizational success.	Recommended as a recurring survey launching every few years, depending on how quickly the organization is changing	Senior leadership and above	All eligible employees
Diversity and Inclusion template	Special topic	Provides an understanding of employee sentiment related to various elements necessary for building a powerful sense of belonging among employees	Recurring	Managers and teams	All eligible employees
Patient Safety template	Special topic	Assesses the culture of patient safety in a valid, reliable, concise, and straightforward way. Leapfrog-approved.	Recurring	Healthcare managers and teams	All eligible employees
Manager Effectiveness template	Special topic	Assesses employee perceptions of how their direct managers demonstrate key behaviors related to their effectiveness	Recurring	Managers and teams	All eligible employees
Team Effectiveness template	Special topic	Identifies a team's unique dynamics and opportunities for improvement	Recurring	Managers and teams	All eligible employees
Distress survey template	Special topic	Assesses employee sentiment related to a specific large-scale change within the organization (for example, M&A, technology implementation, organizational restructuring)	Recurring or ad-hoc	Leaders of change and change management team	All eligible employees