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Employee training & Development

Incentivize personal growth & accreditation

Build a culture of professional and personal development with incentives that drive performance, participation, and more.

Return on recognition

Incentives that drive behavior

Professional development thrives when supported by the right incentives. Recognize and reward learning achievements to drive participation in training, skill-building, and compliance efforts.

48
%
increase in employee engagement
97
%
boost in program participation
83
%
find incentives motivating

Incentivize development

Learning just got more rewarding

Create high-visibility incentive programs and leaderboards to drive behavior and participation in LMS classes and other professional development.

HOW it works

Build programs people actually use

STEP 1

Create specific, goal-oriented programs

Motivate employees faster than ever with easy setup, minimal management, and automation capabilities.

STEP 2

Launch programs for specific groups

Tailor your programs to reach specific audiences, whether it’s a single team, a department, or the entire company.

STEP 3

Drive participation through gamification

Display automated recognitions with leaderboards to encourage others to participate.

Testimonials

What our customers say

Anybody who is partaking in this program actually gets noticed and is brought to our attention...and I think that's wonderful.
Misti Trombley
HR Analyst
Southwest Gas Corporation
Recognition fits into our strategies for turnover and helping us retain good caregivers… because everyone wants to know how they're performing. They want to know if they're doing a good job. And sometimes we forget to stop and say thank you. Recognition helps us do that easily and consistently.
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Mary Eaves
Senior VP of Operations (Assisted Living Division)
Americare Senior Living
We are excited to announce the introduction of AwardCodes cards to our rewards program. This new initiative allows Assistant Managers to recognize and reward employees on the spot for their outstanding performance. The response has been overwhelmingly positive.
Ann O'Keefe
Director of Benefits
Cinemark
Awardco filled a huge need for us to bring recognition and incentives across our international organization. We saw a huge upswing in employee engagement and recognition with its adoption.
Ryan F.
HR Training Specialist
It’s super easy to use and very intuitive.
Smiling man with short brown hair wearing a black suit jacket and white shirt standing indoors near a window.
Mark Nelson
Senior Human Resources Business Partner
Hertz
And we've also tied that to wellness in the sense that, you know, every year, we encourage our associates to go get their annual physical. So part of that though is if you turn that form in, then you get Awardco points. So it's another way to tie healthy lifestyle to what's important to us in the bank to making an impact with our associates.
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Jenny Ketchepaw
VP, Talent Engagement
Citizens Business Bank
It's a very fast paced environment. There's a lot of rapport between people and everyone gets along really well and we can joke about the things that are maybe stressful, but we also really celebrate the big wins together.
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Alejandra Caceres
Senior Vice President of Marketing
Crumbl
I love how simple Awardco is to use, both the main platform and the admin side, with how many reporting features it has to offer.
Anonymous
HR Generalist

Integrations

Connect to everyday tools

Wherever work happens, recognition is there—fast, easy, and built into existing workflows to simplify driving professional development for your employees.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Can organizations prevent employees from earning rewards just for clicking through a course?
 

Organizations can design the incentive around more than a simple completion signal when the training objective requires additional evidence. For example, a program may require a certificate, a passing result, an attendance record, a short reflection, answers to custom questions, or approval by a qualified reviewer.

These controls can help align the reward with the behavior the organization wants to encourage. They do not replace the LMS assessment, training-owner review, or compliance process.

The available questions, evidence requirements, review steps, and completion logic depend on the selected workflow. Organizations should avoid promising that a particular control will detect every inaccurate or incomplete submission.

Can training rewards require approval before they are issued?
 

Yes, where the applicable workflow supports it, a training submission can go to an assigned approver or review queue before points or another reward are issued.

Approvers may include a manager, learning and development leader, safety or compliance representative, administrator, or another authorized reviewer. Approval rules can help confirm that the employee completed the correct activity, met the deadline, supplied acceptable evidence, and has not already claimed the reward.

Organizations should define reviewer ownership, backup coverage, service expectations, rejection and correction steps, duplicate-claim handling, and what happens when the training record and employee record do not match.

How can employees prove they completed training?
 

Organizations can choose a verification method appropriate to the training activity. Options may include an automated completion record from an LMS, a certificate, screenshot, attendance record, uploaded document or image, administrator confirmation, or another approved form of evidence.

For manual submission programs, employees may describe what they completed and attach supporting documentation. The evidence can then be routed for review before any reward is issued.

The required evidence, file types, submission fields, reviewer, retention, and approval timing depend on the program. Organizations should collect only the information needed to validate the activity and should provide employees with clear instructions.

Can Awardco connect to an LMS or other learning system?
 

Where the relevant connection is supported, an LMS or other learning system can provide completion information that triggers an Awardco recognition or reward. This can reduce manual administration for training campaigns and help connect learning activity with employee recognition.

The connection method may vary. Depending on the system and implementation, organizations may use an available integration, an open API, a data feed, a bulk upload, or a configured workflow. Some systems may support automated completion triggers, while others may require an employee or administrator to submit evidence.

Organizations should confirm the specific LMS, API or feed requirements, supported completion fields, data-matching method, timing, error handling, and implementation responsibilities before promising an automated workflow.

What types of employee training can Awardco incentivize?
 

Organizations can configure incentives for many types of learning and development activities, including onboarding training, compliance or safety training, certifications, continuing education, skills development, soft-skills learning, lunch-and-learns, courses, challenges, and other approved activities.

Programs can be designed around completing a course, passing a certification, meeting a deadline, submitting required evidence, answering questions, or completing another defined criterion. Organizations can also choose to recognize learning without attaching a monetary reward.

The available activity types and criteria depend on the organization’s training process and the Awardco configuration. Public claims should avoid implying that every course, certification provider, or learning platform is supported automatically.

Build your people through professional development

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