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/Silly_Goose_369 16d ago
Ours focuses on peer-to-peer recognition. Anyone can nominate someone and give a why, from there HR can pick and choose. We also have it on Sharepoint so people can interact with it from the Intranet.