About Tracking Emotions in Viva Insights
Viva Insights Reflect is a tool that helps you check in with how you’re feeling and build a better understanding of your wellbeing at work.
It offers simple, optional prompts to track your mood over time, helping you notice patterns and make small, positive changes to support your mental health.
Who this can help
Reflect can be useful for:
People experiencing stress, anxiety, or low mood
- Encourages regular check-ins with how you’re feeling
- Helps identify patterns over time
Neurodivergent users
- Supports self-awareness and emotional regulation
- Makes it easier to recognise triggers and energy levels
Fatigue or burnout
- Helps track how work patterns affect wellbeing
- Encourages reflection and balance
Anyone wanting to improve wellbeing at work
Builds awareness of your habits, workload, and focus
What Reflect can do
- Prompt you to log your mood during the day
- Show patterns and trends over time
- Suggest wellbeing actions, such as:
- Taking breaks
- Protecting focus time
- Managing workload more effectively
- Keep your data private and personal
Tips for getting the best experience
- Keep it quick and low effort – avoid overthinking responses
- Be honest – the tool is for your own awareness
- Combine with tools like:
- Daily focus plans (to manage workload)
- Quiet Time or Do Not Disturb (to reduce interruptions)
- Use insights to make small, manageable changes, not big adjustments all at once
Tracking your emotions in Viva Insights
Open Viva Insights
Access Viva Insights through:
- Microsoft Teams
- Outlook (if enabled in your organisation)
Log your mood
- Look for Reflect prompts during your day
- Select how you are feeling – for example calm, stressed or focused
It only takes a few seconds and can build useful insight over time.
Review patterns
- Check your wellbeing insights or summaries
- Look for:
- Times when you feel more focused
- Patterns linked to meetings or workload
This can help you make small changes that improve your day.
Tracking emotions in a simple way
You do not need to track everything – small, consistent check-ins are enough.
- Choose a time – for example the start or end of the day
- Log how you feel using simple words – for example “focused”, “tired”, “overwhelmed”
- Look for patterns over a period of time rather than focusing on individual days