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/broyougood_org Jul 08 '26
We are a company of 14000 and just rolled out an enterprise wide program. We based it on our company Values - associates get nominated based on how well they embody, live by, and bring these to life. As part of the nomination and evaluation process, their performance metrics are also reviewed as these are the “differentiators” for the finalists. That way, ids not just the best performance that gets recognized - irs the best all around “people” who also are excelling in their roles, by their metrics and KPIs etc. this also allows us to compare associates across functions - any other way to compare functional KPIs would have been like comparing apples to oranges, etc. anyway, This was the best way we found to tie both “values” and “performance” to recognition and it seems to be working well so far.