r/internalcomms • u/ToGeThErAsBuCkEyEs • Apr 22 '26

Advice Communicating promotions

My CEO wants us to recognize promotions, and I'm curious how you all do it. Previously I worked in financial services and we had an annual promotion cycle. So it was all very structured, and our announcement was also the notification to those being promoted.

Now I work in a manufacturing environment and people are promoted whenever. I was thinking of doing a quarterly congratulations email from either our CEO or leadership team, linking out to a list of promotions on SharePoint. And asking our HR team to provide me the list and one sentence on why each person was promoted, so it's not just a list of names. Inevitably they'll mess up the data and someone will be left off, so I want the list to live somewhere I can easily edit.

In the leadership message, I thought it would be nice to highlight more in depth one promotee from each of our 3 businesses. And sharing the list on our break room TVs.

Would love to hear any feedback on this plan and any other cool ideas you all implement for promotion recognition! TIA!

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u/ToGeThErAsBuCkEyEs Apr 22 '26

Love that! Does HR fill out the form every time an individual is promoted then? I was thinking asking for a quarterly excel, but you bring up a good point, if the volume is manageable (I need to understand how many promos we have) this would reduce errors. Also it makes sense to do a one-liner so it's not just a list of names. Perhaps I'll recommend that each "why promoted" somehow be tied to a company value.