Viva Goals is not enabled for your account

“Viva Goals is not enabled for your account” is one of the most typical errors you see when trying to access Microsoft Viva Goals.

How to enable and activate Microsoft Viva Goals

You need Microsoft 365 Admin Roles (or License Management Role) to follow next steps.

I am sharing with you easy steps and a tutorial to access Viva Goals and create a new Organization

Purchase Microsoft Viva Goals (trial) License in Microsoft 365 Admin Center

Costs for Viva Goals are 4 US$/user/month or 48 US$/user/year. You can start a trial for 60 days/ 50 licensed immediately, which does not take more than a few minutes to activate.

Assign Microsoft Viva Goals licenses to your users

Create a new Organization

Choose if anyone in your company can join the new organization or if it should be restricted

Add Members to your new Organization

you are going to receive a warning if users don’t own a Viva Goals License yet.

Define and add new Objectives

Use Sample OKR as an inspiration

Search by category (I am selecting “Sales”) or using Search

Check in and track your KPIs, start working with Microsoft Viva Goals

Use Microsoft Teams together with Microsoft Viva Goals

Make sure that your Microsoft Teams Admin allows usage of Microsoft Viva Goals

More resources:

• Microsoft Viva Goals Marketing Landing Page
• Support Microsoft Viva Goals
• OKR Leadership Program – Become an OKR Champion with Viva Goals
• Book by John Doerr (Google) – Measure What Matters: OKRs: The Simple Idea that Drives 10x Growth
• Alex & Ragnar Show with Phat Consulting (Nils Langemann, Tom Seeliger) about Viva Goals (German) and their launch & adoption journey