The Peer Award empowers all users—including regular users, local admins, and HR admins—to manage a personal recognition budget that resets each month. This feature enables individuals across all levels of the organization to directly acknowledge their colleagues’ contributions. By providing a dedicated monthly budget, the Peer Award promotes a culture of appreciation and ensures everyone has the opportunity to recognize great work in a meaningful way.
How to Set up
To create a Peer 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 post - Public or Private
- Visibility - Who can see this award listed in the user panel Awards Page
1. Who can use this award?
In this section, you can specify who has access to the award. Peer Awards stand out because they can be targeted to regular users, empowering employees across the organization to actively participate in recognizing their peers. Options include targeting:
- all HR admins, local admins, and/or regular users across the organization
- all HR admins, local admins, and/or regular users within specific teams, or
- specific HR, local admins, and/or regular users
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:
- Total limit (Optional)
- Monthly limit (Optional)
- Monthly limit per user (Required)
Unless the award is created without points, the Monthly limit per user is required for Peer Awards
3. 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.
4. 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
Peer Awards will be visible in the Points Pool Modal with the name of the award and the amount of points the user has given out that month out of the Monthly limit per user.
