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AwardCodes - digital download
Just noticed on the website that we have the ability to do a digital download and it will create a print ready pdf file and am wanting to find out more on what the pdf looks like. I did the chat but they were not able to find a copy of what it looks like. So if you have used the digital download - what does the pjf look…
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Abuse Detection Alerts
Is it possible to set up abuse detection alerts to flag managers that are giving out more than a certain number of awards? We have our program set up so employees can only receive a specific amount per year but not something that flags if managers give out too many. We have managers misusing the program and want these to…
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Visa Giftcard vs. Store Giftcard
Hello, all. New here. We are launching in about two weeks. I am trying to understand how you all are handling the Visa cards vs. store cards and if the store cards are taxed the same way a Visa giftcard is?
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Staff in a couple of locations seem to be taking advantage of our program
I learned a while back that a couple of our locations were "making sure" all staff there got all of the recognitions for each of our core values. Many of the recognitions were obviously fluff and not real demonstrations of an act or behavior. BTW - with our program, if you receive at least one rec for each of our 5 core…
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New to Awardco - Help Needed on Payroll Processing!
Hi Admin Community! My organization, SEO, is new to employee recognition. Would anyone be able to answer some questions for me and/or provide us with guidance on how you setup your payroll processing schedule/configurations with AwardCo? Happy to jump on a call or post those specific questions here - thank you!
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How do you integrate your program with EOY celebrations?
We are doing a virtual People & Culture EOY celebration primarily focused on recognition to celebrate all of the great work of the year. Wondering if any others have done this and tied it into their Awardco program? Would love to highlight all of the meaningful recognitions of the year and have a chance for people to live…
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Engagement Survey to share?
Hello, Does anyone have an engagement survey they are willing to share? We are in the process of creating ours and I would love to see some sample questions that you think have captured important information or that have been helpful in long term analytics. Thank you!
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How do you have your manager program setup?
Hello! I am looking to setup a monetary manager program and wondering how others have their programs setup. These are the things I am unsure about: Coin increments Coin maximum Budget per manager Should the manager program be monetary or non-monetary? Should the manager program be the only higher valued monetary program we…
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Survey Feature
I would love to implement the survey feature for our company for our quarterly engagement but would like some feedback on it before presenting it to my boss. If you are currently using the survey feature with AwardCo - what do you like, dislike, what do you use it for, etc? Little background on the survey: Currently HR…
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Creating a Gift Box
HI Team! I LOVED the idea about the gift boxes to send to our employees that was talked about at the summit. How to i find the place to create these boxes? I'd Also LOVE to know what things you guys would put in for our onboarding gift boxes. Thank you!
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Thankful week how to set up
I will be implementing a Thankful week starting on the 18th and I need to set up the program. The program will be 5 days, non - monetary and will have a different prompt each day. All submissions will come to me so I can keep track who submitted a recognition. At the end of the 5 days anyone that submitted a recognition…
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Approving Recognitions- App
Hello Friends! I have been conducting some focus groups with our leaders on what has and has not been working with Awardco for them. One people brought up a concern with the App. By having it so accessible, there's a worry about inappropriate recognitions being given or if a terminated employee jumps on their phone and…
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How do companies handle terminations & unspent points? Specifically with RIFs/Furloughs?
We have recently made a change in our philosophy that our terminations must use their points prior to exiting or they lose their points, this is due to the feasibility of administration and hesitation of our employee population to enter their personal email addresses into the Awardco platform for the auto-redemption…
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Recommendations for Integrating a Company Store into Awardco?
We rebranded a couple of years ago, which included launching a new internal company store. Unfortunately, the store has been clunky, with high shipping costs and long delivery times. Since employees can no longer use merch with the old brand, getting newly branded items has been challenging. From what we’ve heard (though…
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Year Long Wellness Program
Hi! I'd like to create a robust, yearlong, wellness program that our employees can participate in to earn Awardco points. Our entire population is remote. Currently we have it set up that various activities earn points (i.e., walking 10,000 steps earns 5 points) and it caps out at 100 points earned. To encourage this,…
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Employee Appreciation Week
What are some fun ways you all have incorporated Awardco into Employee Appreciation Week/Month?
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How do you encourage employees to use the MemoryBooks for anniversaries?
Currently not many employees use the Memory Books for anniversaries. They will say congratulations when it is on the Feed. How have you creatively encouraged and increased engagement with the memorybooks? We have shared reminders on our intranet, emails, and invited people to specific people's memorybooks. Need some more…
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Point multiplier
We have a point multiple turned on for our recognition program. 2 points = $1. Just curious to see who else has a point multiplier turned on and what it looks like for your company.
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Does anyone know if Awardco users can make purchases with their own funds rather than points?
For example, can a user purchase company branded swag within the platform and use a personal CC rather than points?
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Do you have any ideas of how I can encourage employees to recognize more often?
We have some employees who always make a great effort to recognize their team but I noticed that many leaders/employees shy away from social recognitions. Maybe they don't know what to say or how to say it in such a public forum. I am looking for a list of prompts or ideas to encourage employees and leaders to write…
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How to increase line level team members to submit recognitions?
We are in the hotel and restaurant world so our line level team members are not at a computer. Everyone receives a reminder email to submit recognitions, flyer posted in breakrooms, in our quarterly newsletter and on our breakroom digital boards to help remind people to recognize others. Most of our recognitions come from…
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Feed Comments
I'm not sure if this question belongs here as it's related to our platform but I am wondering if anyone else is experiencing the same thing. When an employee is given a recognition they receive an email. If they click on "View Recognition" in the email it brings them to the My Profile Recognition section. If the employee…
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For Monetary Recognition Programs - What's a useful way to setup budgets?
Hi again! Here at Banner, our monetary recognition program (MVP+) is setup for our top-level leaders (CEOs, VPs, etc.) to be the "Budget Owners", or Approvers, of all recognitions that come through for their teams. I think it would be so much more useful for our approvals to go to our lower-level managers instead of…
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How to decrease account set up emails for existing team members
I get asked about once a week to send out an account set up email to an existing team member that is wanting to get access to AwardCo. I'm constantly replying to the manager to have the team member do a password reset because I can't physically send out another AwardCo Welcome email. I am slowly personally emailing team…
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Does your company utilize Awardco through Teams?
Company wide we have moved to Teams for communications, meetings, file system, etc. So leadership is wanting to utilize recognitions in the same manner through Teams without having to go to Awardco web in doing so.
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What are creative ways that you have found to organically grow the engagement in the platform?
We are seeing a slowing trend of using the platform and I want to pump some life into the program. My budget is low in what I can distribute, but I want to get people on the platform and engaging with one another. I"m looking for anything fun and engaging, but also with a low budget. Thanks in advance!
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Activity comments from Profile - where do they go?
I just saw the Activity comment box on my profile and put a comment in. Not sure where it went. Does anyone else know? Checked out the Discussions page but didn't see. Just curious.
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What is a creative program or platform usage example?
At Brooks we created a temporary non-monetary recognition program open for 2 weeks. We asked employees to recognize others and then show up to the company meeting and find the recognitions featured on the big screen. It was a fun way to publicly share all the great work going on 🙂 I would love to hear about other creative…
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How to engage new hires?
Hi friends! We currently send out an email to our new hires about three days after they onboard but I fear those emails get lost in the craziness of the onboarding experience. We are considering sending out an email every 30/60/90 days that the team member is with us. What does your company do to engage new hires in your…
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Recognition Program Feedback
Employee feedback can be helpful for refining recognition programs to ensure they meet the needs and preferences of your organization. How do you handle feedback from employees about the recognition programs you offer? Have you made any adjustments based on their input?
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Creative Solutions in Platform Settings
It's possible that you've encountered situations where the standard Recognition/Earn/Automated program settings don't directly meet your business needs. Have you customized any platform settings to address unique or complex scenarios within your organization (e.g., limiting program eligibility to specific departments or…
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Do you have multiple admins for different parts of your business?
At the moment we use Awardco for one organization only in our company but we're evaluating going company-wide. With 35k employees across the globe, we're trying to think how to best set this up. Have any of you successfully used multiple admins, with each having flexibility to create and run programs for a part of your…
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Swag Store
We run and fulfill our own Swag store. It has been very successful and provides us a bit more control over what we allow our employees to brand. We tie it to our new hire program so that all our new hires can buy branded items. We are looking at adding some new items. We have jackets, shirts, blankets, backpacks, duffels…
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Memory Books-How do you encourage your leaders and employees to engage/sign them?
Besides the automatic reminder notifications, what else has worked for you and your teams?
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Saved Report Filters
Hello. Has anyone had issues running a report that you have saved the filters on so each month you can just select saved views, change the date and run it? I have tried this a few times and the data is not pulling into the report correctly. But if I run a new report, put in the same filters, the data is accurate.
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What are some ways you encourage employees to award out 'points'?
If you organization offers monetary recognition, what are some ways you encourage employees to use their points to recognize someone before the balance renews? We provide monthly point balances to all employees (that renew the 1st of each month) but see low utilization as some employees don't use any or even half of their…
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How do you encourage your people leaders to leverage their dashboards and reporting capabilities?
At my organization, we are trying to encourage our people leaders to leverage the reporting and dashboard capabilities available to them. We have offered training and created templates but would love to hear other ways you have encouraged leaders to get the most out of their data.
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Types of Recognition that Work
Looking for new ideas on how we can inspire TMs. We've utilized Awardco recognition for the following: Work Anniversary Birthday Representation of Company Core Values Onboarding (ensures quick return of signed policy docs and completion of compliance related training) Safe Driver (done annually) Support roles (welcome…
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Issues with the Editor Widgets
Is anyone else unable to add text to the Widgets for the Home page under Settings - Branding - Editor? I have been trying for 2 days to update a Widget and there are no text boxes. I am going to start a chat and see if this is a known issue.
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How are you getting Leaders engaged and utilizing the reporting side for ROI?
I would be curious if you have specific training tools that are useful guidelines, online training with 1-on-1 groups, or any other methods that you have had great success with.
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What Awardco program does your company use most?
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What is a setting that you turned on or configured in your program that has made a difference?
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How do you foster leadership buy-in?
I often find that campaigns or programs with the most leadership support tend to do the best, but sometimes it can be challenging to foster that leadership buy-in. Share how you have done this successfully!
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What Awardco program does your company use most?
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What are your biggest challenges as an admin?
I often find that being a mighty team of one makes my role difficult as the only Super Admin in my organization. 1. What challenges are you facing as an admin? 2. If you've overcome a challenge that someone is experiencing, how have you done so?
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How do you encourage senior leaders to engage in the platform?