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Performance & Culture Alignment

Microsoft

Performance & Culture Alignment

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Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.
Intermediate level

Recommended experience

6 hours to complete
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

  • Facilitate quarterly OKR workshops using Microsoft Copilot in Whiteboard and Planner, and evaluate mid-cycle achievement against benchmarks.

  • Design a three-pillar culture transformation roadmap in Visio, informed by Viva sentiment analytics, with milestones and clear ownership.

  • Create an empowerment playbook defining decision rights, guardrails, and escalation paths for your team.

  • Evaluate culture and empowerment progress by triangulating turnover, engagement, inclusion, and Cultivate sentiment metrics.

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13 assignments¹

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There are 7 modules in this course

Learn to design and facilitate effective OKR setting sessions using Microsoft's collaborative tools. You'll use Whiteboard for brainstorming, Copilot for organizing ideas, and Planner for tracking commitments.

What's included

3 readings1 assignment

Learn to assess OKR progress mid-cycle and make informed recommendations for re-scoping. You'll pull Planner statistics, compare achievement rates to benchmarks, and write status reports with adjustment proposals.

What's included

2 videos1 reading3 assignments

Learn to design a structured culture transformation roadmap using the three-pillar framework. You'll use Viva Sentiment data to identify culture gaps, define transformation pillars, and create a visual roadmap in Visio with clear milestones and owners.

What's included

1 video2 readings1 assignment

Learn to measure culture transformation progress using multiple data sources. You'll triangulate turnover data, engagement scores, and inclusion metrics to create a comprehensive view of cultural shift, then present findings to executive leadership.

What's included

1 video2 readings3 assignments

Learn to design an empowerment playbook that gives your team clear authority to make decisions while maintaining appropriate boundaries. You'll define decision rights by role, establish guardrails that prevent costly mistakes, and create escalation paths for edge cases.

What's included

1 video2 readings1 assignment

Learn to measure whether your empowerment playbook is working by analyzing Microsoft Viva Glint survey results. You'll identify managers with low empowerment scores, conduct coaching conversations to understand barriers, and adjust delegation practices to improve team autonomy.

What's included

1 video2 readings2 assignments

Learn to leverage generative AI tools—particularly Microsoft Copilot—to enhance your coaching and people development workflows while maintaining appropriate human oversight. You'll practice using AI for theme clustering, sentiment analysis, goal capture, and recommendation generation, while developing governance guidelines that ensure ethical, transparent AI use in people-focused contexts.

What's included

2 videos3 readings2 assignments

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