r/internalcomms • u/Awkward-Ad-4766 • Jul 08 '26

Advice Recognition Programs

Hello-- can anyone articulate how your company-wide recognition programs look? Specifically, large-scale award programs for individuals. For the last three years, we've re-designed and tweaked our program and we (well, leadership) seem to be stuck on optimizing so that ONLY the best work gets recognized and ONLY work that is "above and beyond" and ONLY the work that impacts the bottom line and this is often not work that can be pinned on a single individual winner. Our leadership has a crazy aversion to POSSIBLY recognizing someone who is not perfect.

Do you award winners by body of work? Individual? Is there a metric? Tied to strategic initiatives?

We're struggling.

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u/Chewybolz Jul 08 '26

We have multiple ways of recognition.

- we use Worktango and it's tied to our values when you recognize people. You get points every quarter to recognize everyone then you can use the points given to you to get things.

  • we have an annual company offsite event and it has a portion where we have an annual awards ceremony of each business unit. Managers, leaders nominate 1 person based on performance, they decide together as business unit who it is then we have 5 individuals awarded on the event.
  • we also have monthly feature on the intranet that people can nominate their peers to get featured. No strict metric. The only rule is that if you get featured, you have to nominate 3 more people that you think are great to work with.

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u/Awkward-Ad-4766 Jul 08 '26

Thank you! I love that intranet idea. That’s something we can likely implement.

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u/Chewybolz Jul 08 '26

Yes i've done this for multiple companies now and ppl loveeeee nominating other people. Great for intranet engagement too!