“Viva Goals is not enabled for your account” is one of the most typical errors you see when trying to access Microsoft Viva Goals.
![Viva Goals is not enabled for your account 1 Viva Goals is not enabled for your account](https://ragnarheil.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Viva-Goals-is-not-enabled-for-your-account.jpg)
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.
![Viva Goals is not enabled for your account 2 Purchase a (trial) License of Viva Goals in Microsoft 365 Admin Center](https://ragnarheil.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/VIva-Goals-Trial-1-1024x544.png)
![Viva Goals is not enabled for your account 3 confirm your order](https://ragnarheil.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Viva-Goals-Trial-2-268x300.png)
Assign Microsoft Viva Goals licenses to your users
![Viva Goals is not enabled for your account 4 Assign Microsoft Viva Goals license to your users](https://ragnarheil.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Viva-Goals-how-to-assing-license-1024x537.png)
Create a new Organization
Choose if anyone in your company can join the new organization or if it should be restricted
![Viva Goals is not enabled for your account 5 Create a new Organisation](https://ragnarheil.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Viva-Goals-Create-New-Organization-1-265x300.png)
![Viva Goals is not enabled for your account 6 Create a new Organisation](https://ragnarheil.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Viva-Goals-Create-Organisation-300x174.png)
Add Members to your new Organization
you are going to receive a warning if users don’t own a Viva Goals License yet.
![Viva Goals is not enabled for your account 7 Add Members to your new Organization](https://ragnarheil.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Viva-Goals-Add-Members-1024x703.png)
Define and add new Objectives
![Viva Goals is not enabled for your account 8 Define and add new Objectives](https://ragnarheil.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Viva-Goals-Add-Objectives-1024x514.png)
Use Sample OKR as an inspiration
Search by category (I am selecting “Sales”) or using Search
![Viva Goals is not enabled for your account 9 Use Sample OKR as an inspiration](https://ragnarheil.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/VIva-Goals-Sample-Goals-1024x490.png)
Check in and track your KPIs, start working with Microsoft Viva Goals
![Viva Goals is not enabled for your account 10 Check in and track your KPIs, start working with Microsoft Viva Goals](https://ragnarheil.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Viva-Goals-KPIs-1024x449.jpg)
Use Microsoft Teams together with Microsoft Viva Goals
![Viva Goals is not enabled for your account 11 Use Microsoft Teams together with Microsoft Viva Goals](https://ragnarheil.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/image-10-1024x381.png)
Make sure that your Microsoft Teams Admin allows usage of Microsoft Viva Goals
![Viva Goals is not enabled for your account 12 allow Microsoft Viva Goals in Microsoft Teams Admin Center](https://ragnarheil.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/image-11-1024x573.png)
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
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