The Perkbox Guide to Employee Awards

Step 1: Collecting your nominations

There are a few ways you can approach this.

Option one: You can source nominations using the polling feature in Perkbox, allowing you to ask all your employees who they think deserves an award and why.

This allows your team to nominate who they think deserves it the most, creating a community around acknowledging each other's achievements.

Option two: If your company consistently acknowledges each other's work using the recognitions feature, a simple way to choose your potential winners is seeing who received the recognitions during a certain timeframe.

Option three: Have managers nominate team members they believe deserve an award. This approach is effective because managers are familiar with individual goals and objectives, allowing them to recognise when someone has achieved something exceptional.

Step 2: Deciding the winner

There are two ways you can approach this for both methods. You can base the winner on who received the most poll nominations or recognitions during your chosen period.

Or, you can read through your poll nominations or recognitions to see which nominee was shown to have excelled, or really lived your company's values. You can leave the final decision to your executive team, which can help highlight to senior members the hard work accomplished by members of the team they don't directly work with.

In the reporting section, you can find all the information on who’s received the most recognitions during a certain timeframe, or who’s been nominated in your poll.

Step 3: Crowning your winner(s)

Once your winner is selected, it’s time to celebrate! If your celebrations are more frequent (weekly and monthly), have a smaller celebration. Make a shout-out in your company newsletter, intranet or all-hands meeting. Include their nomination or all the reasons they’re doing an exceptional job.

If you’re hosting awards less frequently, make more of a celebration out of it. Put an event in everyone's calendar for a virtual or in-person event, where the winners are announced and given their awards.

TOP TIP: If you host in the office, make your budget go further by using a supermarket perk to save on buying snacks and refreshments! 

Step 4: Sprinkle it with Rewards

Acknowledgement for all your hard work is great but do you know what's even better? Rewards! You can use the employee award budget you outlined to purchase Reward points — and don’t worry, you won’t need to do this each time you want to reward someone.

You can purchase Reward points for the whole quarter or year, and separate it from other employee engagement initiatives by creating an ‘Employee Awards’ budget. This way all you need to do is attach Reward points and send a nice message to your winners. Now your winner can choose whatever they like, from 100s of big brand vouchers.

What's even better is that Reward points don’t expire, so your employees can save them up or hold onto them until they're ready to be used.

TOP TIP: Just because Rewards are virtual doesn't mean you can’t recreate that magical feeling of unwrapping a present. You can use one of our Reward templates.