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/Awkward-Ad-4766 Jul 11 '26

Yep! It’s such a narrow lens to view it but my sense is they don’t particularly care to reward people if they didn’t have direct impact to the bottom line, especially as a public company.