The Manager Award allows managers to recognize anyone in the organization. This award type has flexible budgeting options, including dynamic calculations based on direct reports. The Manager Award can also be configured to require supervisor approval, ensuring recognition aligns with organizational policies.
How to Set Up
To create a Manager Award, fill out the following form sections in the award Settings page:
- Who can use this award? - Entire organization, Specific team(s), Specific user(s)
- How should points for this award be distributed? - Configure Award's value & Award's budget and limits
- Recognition approval (Optional)
- Recognition post - Public or Private
- Visibility - Who can see this award listed in the user panel Awards Page
Allocate the award points by number of direct reports and Approval-based Awards are only available for Manager Awards
1. Who can use this award?
In this section, you can specify who has access to the award. Options include targeting:
- all HR admins and/or local admins across the organization
- all HR admins and/or local admins within specific teams, or
- specific HR and/or local admins
2. How should points for this award be distributed?
First, set the Award's value, and the Max points per single recognition (if managers should not award points above a certain amount).
You can also enable Create this award with no points. to configure the award to not have any points associated with it.
Next, configure the award's budget. Award budgets are configurable at several levels:
- None (Unlimited budget)
- Total limit
- Monthly limit (resets each month)
- Monthly limit per user (resets each month)
- Allocate the award points by number of direct reports (resets each month)
3. Recognition approval
Award can be set to require approval from the recipient’s supervisor, ensuring alignment with organizational policies. More info here.
4. Recognition post
The Recognition post section allows you to configure how recognition is shared within your organization. The main setting, Create a public post, determines whether a recognition post is publicly visible to others. If enabled, you can further customize the visibility by selecting the sub-setting, Show public post in the Weekly Digest, which ensures the recognition is featured in the organization's weekly summary email.
5. Visibility
The Visibility section lets you control how and where the award is displayed within the platform. The Show in awards page setting determines if the award will appear on the user-view Awards page, making it accessible for users to see and interact with. Additionally, the Who can see this award setting allows for precise targeting of award visibility. You can choose between two options:
- People who can use - limited to those with access to manage the award; or
- Custom - enables you to target visibility to everyone in the organization, specific teams, or selected local and HR admins
User Panel → Points Pool Modal
Manager Awards will be visible in the Points Pool Modal with the name of the award and the amount of points the manager has given out that month.
If the award does not have a set Monthly limit per user, the amount of points issued this month will display as:
If the award has a set Monthly limit per user, the amount of points issued this month will display as:
If the award is created with no points, the amount of points issued this month will display as a dash.
