Add an Award

Setting Up Awards for Employee Recognition

The guidance in this document will show you how to create awards in your platform. This is not the same process as assigning an award to an employee. This document will show you how to create an award in the platform so that it can be assigned by other users.

As a prerequisite, you must create/define your Award Types. Please refer to this guide for information on creating Award Types.

Step One

Hover over the Communication section of the side-bar, then navigate to: Manage ➡️ Awards. Select the ➕ next to Awards to open the add award pop-up.

Step Two

The title of the award is what you would like the award to be called, and the description will provide a narrative as to what the award is for. This is helpful to employees when they are assigning an award to a peer via a custom feed. The tag will populate automatically after you click away from the title field.

Step Three

You can select the award type in the Type of Award drop-down menu. Please ensure that you have created the award type prior to creating the award.

Selecting the award type will pre-populate the competency (to influence the employee's Success Circle), and the award image (you can change these if you like). Images help to personalise the award and make it distinguishable. 

Step Four

You can associate the award with a certain number of points. This will help you to weight your awards so some are more desirable than others to achieve.

Points are used to assign influence over the competency within the Success Circle. The higher the number, the more an award will change the overall competency.

You can use our Reporting tools to report on employees with an overall score or for a certain competency.

Step Five

To allow the award to be used by anyone within the business (peer-to-peer awards), toggle on the allow everyone to assign toggle. Otherwise, the award can only be allocated to those who have Manager permissions for the Comms module.

Step Six

Finally, use the toggles in the notification settings area to determine what emails are triggered when the award has been assigned.

When an award has been assigned to an employee, notifications are sent to both the employee and their line manager. However, if the award has been assigned by a custom feed it will also notify everyone who has access to the custom feed.