Badges are a company-wide way to drive engagement in the workplace and boost employee recognition. They can also raise awareness of employee contributions in the organisation.
Workvivo supports:
- Standard Badges - assigned by Admins on an ad-hoc basis.
- Automated Badges for custom rules - automatically assigned to users who meet. certain criteria around platform engagement.
- Automated badges for work anniversaries / milestones.
Device(s): Desktop and Mobile
Roles / Permissions: Every user
Why use Badges?
Badges help to create a personal process of social recognition and awareness. Badges are a great way to:
- Elevate employee engagement
- Encourage goal-setting behavior
- Showcase employee skills and achievements
- Promote diversity and inclusion
- Increase motivation for professional development
- Identify and fill skill gaps
- Identify specialist or affinity group members
With Workvivo’s badge functionality you can create custom badges to recognize people across various categories or for meeting certain criteria.
From the Badges section in the Explore tab in the top navigation bar, system Admins and Badge Admins can create and assign custom badges to team members.
When you click on the Badge you have the option to go to the badge page.
On the badge page you can search assignees by name and filter by taxonomy.
Examples of Badges
Recognition Examples:
- Award Nominee / Winner
- Top Performer e.g. Sales, Recruitment, Customer Service
- X Skill Certified
- X Training Course Completed
Contribution to the Community Examples:
- Career Counsellor / Mentor
- First Aider
- Fire Warden
- Mental Health Ally
- LGBT Ally
- Autism Champion
- Covid Response Rep
- Blood Donor
- Veteran
- Star Volunteer
Social & Engagement Examples:
- Tea Lover/Coffee Lover
- Pet Owner
- The Motivator
- Best Socks / Best Mug
- Best Background Star (awarded to those whose families or pets made an entertaining appearance on video calls)
- X Event Attendee (use badges to gamify event attendance)
Engagement Badge Examples:
- Early Adopter: Awarded to those who were active users of Workvivo, right from the start – giving out 15 likes, making 10 comments, and creating 3 posts.
- Savvy Shouter: You've given or received five shoutouts. That's the spirit!
- Inquiring minds: Good job submitting a question! You know you weren't the only one wondering it...
- Hashtag Hero: You used a hashtag to help boost engagement with your post. Well done!
- Comment Comment Chameleon: You just made your 10th comment! Way to engage with the community.
- Playful Post-er: You just brightened everyone's day by posting to one of our social spaces!
- Ace of Hearts: You've liked 10 posts. It's our turn to appreciate you!
- Postmaster: You've shared your fifth post! Thanks for enriching Workvivo. Keep it up!
Where do colleagues see badges?
When a badge is assigned to a colleague, they will receive a notification.
The badge appears under their profile on desktop and mobile. In this example, the team member has 1 badge assigned.
You can view all Badges by navigating to 'Badges' from the Explore tab,
if you click on any badge it will show you everyone that has been awarded that badge.
Mobile View
You can view badges on mobile by clicking the avatar in the top left hand corner and scrolling down to 'Badges' on the side navigation bar.
You can view 'All Badges' or 'My Badges' which have been assigned to you previously.
Click on the Badge and Select 'Go to badge page'
This Badge Page will show you everyone that has received that Badge.