With Awardco, recognition is more than a one-and-done thing. It's starting to become a part of our culture and our employees' daily habits.

We’ve made myKudos [Awardco] a key part of how we work at all levels—whether you’re a people manager or an individual contributor. MyKudos is just as powerful when peers recognize each other, creating a culture of appreciation across the organization

We have an on-the-spot recognition program where leaders can immediately recognize a CRP for demonstrating safe behavior. That recognition is visible across the organization, which motivates others to do the same. Instead of focusing on what went wrong, we’ve shifted our culture to spotlight what’s being done right—and that’s encouraged everyone to follow that path.

[Awardco] pulls everybody together… you get to see what everyone’s doing, even across different campuses.

The biggest thing is that it is all in one platform. That makes it very easy for everybody to get on to take [the survey] without having to follow a link, go somewhere else, or try to make sure that access works.

The platform helps to put a spotlight on the good behaviors—on things that demonstrate people going above and beyond or outside their normal scope or taking initiative. As people see that in the feed, everybody else on the team can be like, ‘Oh, that’s the kind of stuff that people get shouted out and recognized for. The more you see the same thing, the more you’re like, ‘Okay, if I want the result, I’m going to do that thing.’

People are busy. It's hard. We have our highest volumes we've ever had with patients. But when people take the time to celebrate one another, then we can really see that hope and that goodness beyond that. And so I really think that why we're successful is because our team cares about one another, and they take the time to recognize one another.

Employees are awarded a certain amount of points every month to give out to their peers. We encourage people to recognize not just within their team, but across the company—anyone who goes above and beyond or makes your day a little easier.

After COVID hit we had over 1800 employees go remote. Our HQ campus became a ghost town. We couldn't do the high touch thing anymore, but still wanted to engage our workforce. Because of the nature of remote work, we didn't even know which employees were where, and there was no way we could use our old system of bi-annual distribution. We had gotten so much positive feedback with our service anniversary program that we reached out to Awardco to see if they could do something to help us with our bonus program.

A quiet employee might never self-promote, but Awardco gives us the visibility to see their impact. We’ve literally had leaders say, ‘I had no idea!’ when reviewing this data.

Awardco is truly better than any other vendor I've implemented for any type of platform—and I've done a lot! The user experience is second to none.

I love the social aspect of the platform—seeing how others are being recognize and rewarded inspires me to give more awards myself.

We wouldn’t have chosen Awardco if it weren’t so user-friendly. It’s clean, intuitive, and seamlessly integrates with Outlook and Teams—where our people already are.

Using the Awardco mobile app has made it so much easier to recognize our team in the moment. I love being able to snap a quick photo and send recognition right from my phone while I am on the go, so those feelings of appreciation are never lost. In a hospital environment where our people are rarely at a desk, having that kind of flexibility is incredibly important.

After implementing Awardco we saw a huge influx [of recognitions]… we were riding a tidal wave. Now it’s at a sustainable level, but still significantly higher than before.