{"id":1733,"date":"2021-03-16T10:05:36","date_gmt":"2021-03-16T10:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.workstars.com\/recognition-and-engagement-blog\/?p=1733"},"modified":"2026-01-02T18:01:37","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T18:01:37","slug":"integrating-company-awards-with-social-recognition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.workstars.com\/recognition-and-engagement-blog\/2021\/03\/16\/integrating-company-awards-with-social-recognition\/","title":{"rendered":"Integrating company awards with social recognition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Here&#8217;s a thought. What about taking old school company awards or employee of the month formats, sprinkling them with a bit of 2020 magic dust (wasn\u2019t much of that around), and seamlessly integrating them into your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.workstars.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">social recognition program<\/a>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Track forward nine months and its ready to roll.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Workstars can now power award processes by company or department and whilst maintaining good old-fashioned leadership panel method of determining results, many organizations are adopting our hands-free automated approach. Our latest feature allows employees to now nominate, support, and vote for their winners with prizes handed out within seconds of the final vote being completed. 100% transparent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With three different company award types to choose from, HR teams have real flexibility in the type of competition they want to run:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Employees nominate and the company decide the winners (more traditional)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The company selects the nominees and employees vote on the winners (more like it)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Employees nominate and the employees vote on the winners! (more likely to be loved)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>In each instance, all previous recognitions an employee has received help to validate and support their nomination, with admins setting eligibility periods, e.g., &#8216;all employees receiving recognition in Q3&#8217;. This key addition ensures a long-held gripe with many award processes is fixed, being that award processes can often undermine or make a mockery of the company recognition program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not anymore. If your manager or colleagues didn\u2019t think it was worthy of recognition at the time, you can\u2019t be winning an award 12 months later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, are there other benefits to running your awards within a social recognition platform? Yes, this transparent and engaging feature brings every nomination, vote, comment and winner into the social feed, and for those organizations using <a href=\"https:\/\/www.workstars.com\/integrations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">one of the many integrations<\/a> Workstars has to offer &#8211; that means your award process is being broadcast across MS Teams or Yammer day by day. Gone are the days of paper and privacy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.workstars.com\/recognition-and-engagement-blog\/2020\/10\/20\/introducing-workstars-tv-sharing-great-moments-in-more-places\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Introducing Workstars TV \u2013 sharing great moments in more places<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And there\u2019s also good news for reward managers \u2013 any financial benefit to winning a certain company award can be automatically given and received through your program\u2019s existing reward set-up!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>New to Workstars? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.workstars.com\/how-it-works\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Come take a look at what we do here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a thought. 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