Badges promote core-competencies within your organization, increase productivity and continually build morale!
Ignite Badges are a heavy hitting tool, helping ensure your team is consistently “hitting it out of the ballpark” in executing best practices daily, and acting with your core values top of mind. Here’s how it works; as part of Ignite’s online recognition program, managers can award badges to recognize a team member for a job well done. Peer to Peer recognition can also be activated. A badge can be a standalone shout out, or the badge can have Ignite Points attached to it, that can be redeemed for gift cards and merchandise in our Ignite Store.
Do Badges really hold meaning? The answer is YES!
Badges are like a compass for your team, providing direction on what successful behavior looks like and keeping best practices top of mind! When employees are recognized for good work, not only do they feel appreciated, they know their performance is on point. And guess what, peers noticing the recognitions are consistently seeing what success looks like for your business and they want to emulate that behavior.
Recent industry studies reveal the importance of peer-to-peer recognition in today’s workplace. Even more so than manager to peer recognition. It may be your manager’s job or your mom’s job to pat you on the back for a job well done, and this necessary feedback as well as nice to hear. Consider though, when a peer initiates the compliment, it is received as being very genuine, put forth with effort that is not required, rather authentically initiated. Also, this sort of peer-to-peer recognition is likely very current and relevant appreciation. The recognized person feels valued, motivated and an important part of the team. The answer is YES, badges deliver significant substance in company culture and employee morale.
Let’s Stack up the Benefits:
Boost Retention
Badges significantly contribute to building the type of culture dedicated employees seek in today’s workplace. An environment that fosters positive reinforcement, support for growth opportunities, fluid communication, trust between managers and their teams as well as trust amongst peers. All of these components are building blocks to creating and maintaining a thriving culture providing job satisfaction keeping your employees engaged, motivated and focused on contributing efficiently and productively.
Improve Job Satisfaction
What are some of the top things employees want from their job? Communication, Growth, Recognition, Clear Expectations, Growth Opportunities, Trust & Respect and Opportunities to Set Goals and Achieve them. Likely you are not finding any surprises on the list but how do ensure you are delivering and communicating these essential elements consistently? Badges provide a powerful tool to help you hit on all of these critical employees needs persistently.
Enhance Overall Morale
Okay, It’s established recognition is nice to receive and necessary in the workplace. Badges take this recognition to the next level in various ways. Let’s break it down:
- The obvious, public recognition of a job well done. Enough said, right?
- Badges can help keep employees motivated to work towards long-term goals. Long-term goals can seem unattainable and overwhelming. Badges can serve as a cheer squad for your team, encouraging them along the way and keeping them on track.
- Badges also create a healthy competition. Your team will continually see who is making good strides and will be motivated to emulate rewarded behavior. The public recognition keeps best practices top of mind and employees will gain not only recognition but also a sense of pride as they build their trophy case.
- Badges Increase Positive Employee Engagement. It’s easy to fall into a barking mentality with our busy schedules, focusing on what needs to be done and correcting shortcomings. But do we remember and take time to speak to the jobs well done? It has been said it takes 7 positives to reverse 1 negative. Badges go a long way in keeping motivation up and keeping employees on track with positive productive behavior. It’s also nice to give your colleagues a shout out when they have gone the extra mile and it is genuinely appreciated.
Build Trust
As mentioned earlier badges can serve as a compass for your team. They provide a measure of what is expected of them, and when they deliver, badges help convey instant gratification. Engaging your team through badges helps strengthens the relationship between managers and employees as well as building trust among peers.
Increase Productivity
Badges are created to mirror the core competencies within your company. Core competencies are put in place to drive success. Do you see the pattern here? When your team is aligned with business goals they are positioned to succeed. Badges help them feel personally invested in successful performance. The combination of consistently being aware of core competencies and being rewarded for such behavior drives employees to be more engaged, work more efficiently and produce higher quality of work.
Badges are one aspect of Ignite’s employee engagement platform. Ignite has many other features including a Social Community Newsfeed, Challenges, Rewards, Milestone Recognition and more! Contact us to see how we can help your team spark something amazing with Ignite!