Introduction
Employee engagement is a crucial aspect of any organization's success. Two prominent platforms, Nasch and Glint (Viva) by Microsoft, offer robust tools to measure and enhance employee satisfaction. While both platforms share similar goals, they differ in their features and approaches. This article will delve into the details of each platform, highlighting the strengths and weaknesses of Nasch and Glint (Viva).
Nasch
Nasch is a comprehensive employee engagement platform that empowers organizations to measure and improve their workforce's productivity and satisfaction. Key features include:
1. Real-time Conversations: Nasch ditches surveys. Instead of conducting dull annual/bi-annual surveys, Nasch instead focuses on more real-time quick conversations and touch points with employees thus making the whole experience seem more informal and less one-sided.
2. Real-time Analytics: Real-time conversations bring real-time analytics. Nasch provides real-time data and analytics, enabling timely decision-making and actionable insights for improving employee engagement. The platform's advanced analytics engine collects and analyzes data from various sources, including employee surveys, performance metrics, and HR records. This real-time data allows organizations to identify trends, pinpoint areas of concern, and make informed decisions to enhance employee engagement.
3. Personalized Actionable Insights: Detailed analytics translate into actionable recommendations for enhancing employee engagement. Nasch's AI-powered insights go beyond just presenting data; they provide specific, tailored suggestions for improving employee satisfaction, productivity, and retention for all levels in the organization. These insights are based on best practices and industry benchmarks, helping organizations implement effective engagement strategies.
4. Customization: Nasch allows for tailored engagement strategies, catering to diverse organizational needs. The platform's flexible design enables organizations to customize surveys, dashboards, and reporting to align with their unique culture, values, and goals. This level of customization ensures that the engagement initiatives are relevant and impactful for each organization.
5. Integration: The platform seamlessly integrates with various systems, ensuring a cohesive workflow. Nasch's open API allows for easy integration with HR, payroll, and other business systems, creating a unified employee experience and streamlining data management.
6. Scalability: Nasch scales with your organization, accommodating changing requirements as your workforce grows. As the organization expands or evolves, Nasch can adapt to handle increased data volumes, additional locations, and more complex engagement strategies. This scalability ensures that the platform remains a valuable tool for organizations of all sizes and stages of growth.
Glint (Viva)
Glint (Viva) is a well-known employee engagement platform that offers real-time surveys, analytics, and action planning. Key features include:
1. Surveys: Although not automated in real time, Glint (Viva) provides surveys to gather feedback and measure employee engagement. The platform's survey tools allow organizations to quickly gather insights from their workforce, enabling them to respond to employee concerns in a timely manner. This is more reminisce of a form
2. Action Planning: The platform offers actionable recommendations for improving employee engagement. Glint (Viva)'s analytics and reporting features provide organizations with specific suggestions for addressing engagement-related issues, such as improving communication, enhancing recognition programs, or addressing work-life balance concerns. Although, the actions items seem to be limited to just managerial level, missing out on employee accountability
3. Comprehensive Survey Templates: Glint (Viva) includes comprehensive survey templates to streamline engagement initiatives. These pre-built surveys cover a wide range of topics, from job satisfaction and work-life balance to team dynamics and organizational culture. This feature can be particularly useful for organizations that are new to employee engagement or lack the resources to develop their own surveys.
Comparison and Conclusion
While both platforms share similar features, Nasch goes on to disrupt how organizations measure and resolve people challenges:
1. Conversations: Nasch's way of speaking with employees and utilizing AI to understand the underlying sentiments and emotions allows HRs and leaders to tap into the 2nd layer of feedbacks that often get's overlooked in traditional surveys.
2. Personalized Action Plans: Even with Viva's AI based action plans, it misses to hold the employees accountable. Nasch triggers and follows-up with action plans tailor-made for each role, each person at every level of the organization. This level of personalization hold everyone accountable
3. Integration: Nasch seamlessly integrates with various systems, providing a cohesive workflow. The platform's open API and extensive integration capabilities allow organizations to connect Nasch with their existing HR, payroll, and other business systems, creating a unified employee experience and streamlining data management. This eliminates a need to adapt to a new platform without adding to the company's tech stack and tech fatigue.
4. Customization: Nasch allows for tailored engagement strategies, catering to diverse organizational needs. The platform's flexible design enables organizations to customize surveys, dashboards, and reporting to align with their unique culture, values, and goals. This level of customization ensures that the engagement initiatives are relevant and impactful for each organization.
5. AI-first disruption: Nasch doesn't use AI as a feature but as an approach to disrupt this industry that has been doing things a certain way for past couple of decades. This approach comes with a fresh outlook towards solving an age-old problem.
In contrast, Glint (Viva), although popular, lacks the same level of customization and scalability as Nasch. Additionally, its pricing might be prohibitive for smaller organizations, and its user interface complexity might be a barrier for beginners.
Thank you for reading. Do check out our other blog post on 5 tools that reduce employee attrition here.
