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Awards are a great way to recognize employees or to help encourage employees to take action on key initiatives. We have made that so easy even Carl the Yeti can do it. We offer two different kinds of awards in Motivosity: Recognition Awards and Achievement Awards
30 Award Ideas (and why they're important)
If you need some ideas about different types of awards you could build in Motivosity, take a look at this blog post.
Recognition vs Achievement Awards
Other Important Information about Awards
Limiting an Award to a Country or Department
Creating an Achievement-Based Award
Limiting an Award to a Country or Department
Like that your newly created award is now available to be earned
Recognition vs Achievement Awards
Knowing what kind of Award you want to create is going to be very important. Here is a quick breakdown of the two different kinds of awards you can create:
- Recognition Awards: If you are hoping to recognize one (or more) employees for doing something special, then the Recognition Award is the one for you. With this award a person who is in charge of the award will be prompted to give the award on a regular basis. These awards may accept nominations, and can be given out based on time-frames that you choose.
- The most common example of a Recognition Award would be an Employee of the Month award.
- Achievement Based Awards: If you want to nudge your employees to DO something specific, then an Achievement based award is for you. These awards will show up on every user's profile.
- Some common examples of Achievement-Based Awards would be Read the Culture Code Book, Write a Glass Door Review, Refer a Friend, etc.
Other Important Information about Awards
There is A LOT that goes into understanding how Awards work. To begin, an Admin will likely be responsible for creating the awards that will be given. That's been the focus of this article so far. But you will also need to understand how the manager of an award will need to review nominations, view who has claimed an achievement-based award, and ultimately give the award. Similarly, the users will need to know how to make a nomination for a recognition award, or how to mark an achievement award complete. Use this list of articles to help you find more information about awards:
Creating a Recognition Award
There are two places within Motivosity to create an award. You can either go to Setup > Awards > +New Award
... or you can click on Awards at the top of the page then click Create a New One from the "Awards I manage" section.
When you first open the awards page, you will see an invitation to start creating awards. If you are an admin when you click the link to create an award, you will see a dialog box like this, otherwise, you will start on the first page of creating a recognition award
You can easily choose between the two different award types.
You can select from a gallery of Motivosity award icons or upload your own. Start this process by clicking on the 'Upload an icon at the top. You will then give the name of the award that will be visible to your employees. Provide a brief description of what this award is and finally the frequency that it Is given out.
Award Owners
The award owner is the person who gives the award. An award can have multiple owners. Start typing in the 'Who gives this award?' field and start typing the name of a valid Motivosity user in your company.
Awards with Nominations
You may want some awards to accept nominations. When you have at least one award that accepts nominations, a new 'Who Do You Nominate' box will appear on the Awards page. More information about this will be found in 'Making and Reviewing Nominations'.
Award Schedule
You can select how often the award is given. When you select a schedule for an award, a few things happen. First, if there is money associated with the award, the estimated recognition budget for the company is adjusted. Second, the person giving the award will be reminded to give it out at the right time. For awards that are not regularly given, choose, "One Time" from the dropdown
Nomination Instructions
Provides optional instruction to your employee that is important when submitting a nomination. Maybe you have a list of questions that need to have answers when nominating. Adding text here will display when someone is making a nomination.
Money
Awards do not need to have money attached (bragging rights are always a good thing), but if you want a user to receive more money in their 'You can spend' box when they receive the award, select the maximum amount they could receive for this award in the 'How much?' box. Note that when an award owner is giving the award, the dollar amount can be adjusted downward if desired.
If you attach money to the award, you can decide where that money comes from. Does it come from the award owner's 'You can give' bucket, or does it come out of a central budget? If you choose 'The giver', then giving the award to someone would take out of the amount of the award from the owner's giving money. If you choose the 'Central budget', then another field will appear that will allow you to control the maximum number of times this award can be given in a year.
Limiting an Award to a Country or Department
These limits will control how this award appears in the nomination list and on the Awards page. Choosing a country will have this award display only to people in the selected country. Choosing a department will have this award display only to people in the selected department. Choosing 'Inactive' will have this award not appear in any lists.
Once you are done with this, click 'Save' on the modal and the award is ready to go. Happy awarding!
Creating an Achievement-Based Award
Achievement awards are a simple way to motivate your employees to take action on key company initiatives. To create an achievement award you. must be logged in as an administrator. Navigate to the awards tab at the top or you can go to the admin setup/awards tab. When you click add new award you will see the option to select the achievement-based award.
There are two places within Motivosity to create an award. You can either go to Setup > Awards > +New Award
... or you can click on Awards at the top of the page then click Create a New One from the "Awards I manage" section.
When you first open the awards page, you will see an invitation to start creating awards. If you are an admin when you click the link to create an award, you will see a dialog box like this, otherwise, you will start on the first page of creating a recognition award
Setting up award details:
You can select from a gallery of Motivosity award icons or upload your own. Start this process by clicking on the 'Upload icon at the top. You will then give the name of the award that will be visible to your employees. Provide a brief description of what this award is and finally the frequency that it Is given out. You can also configure an external URL. This external URL will show as a link on the 'awards I can earn tab'. These links can go to external websites like your LMS platform, wellness platform, Sharepoint or any other place where an employee needs to take action to earn the award. URL entered must contain HTTP:// or HTTPS:// in the ULR. Finally, you can name that external URL like "Access LMS"
Achievement Reporting:
How should your employees mark achievement complete? We give you a couple options first they can provide a response in the platform. Second, as an administrator if your are tracking the completion of this activity outside of the platform you can bulk upload the award to all those who completed it. You can also manually give these awards out as well. This gives you maximum opertunity to streamline the work flow for completing an achievement.
In addition to reporting an achievement as complete you have the option to provide instructions that will display when an employee markes the achievement complete. You can ask them to attach screen shots or documents on submission. All submissions will be available as an administrator for review and approval.
Money
If you attach money to the award, the dollars will need to be set up with the central budget. the field will appear that will allow you to control how much will be awarded. You can set up a budget amount and a frequency for that budget. You will also have the opportunity to attach a gift to the award.
Limiting an Award to a Country or Department
These limits will control how this award appears in the nomination list and on the Awards page. Choosing a country will have this award displayed only to people in the selected country. Choosing a department will have this award displayed only to people in the selected department. Choosing 'Inactive' will have this award not appear in any lists.
Like that your newly created award is now available to be earned
New achievement awards will show up at the top of the awards screen under Awards available to earn now.