Tips, Best Practices, &
All Things Engagement

Thanks to our awesome new Slack integration, you can now send recognition to your co-workers, teammates, and stakeholders without ever needing to leave Slack!

When I think of etiquette, I think of using the right fork at a dinner party and being introduced to society. Etiquette, when used genuinely, can help you build, improve and sustain professional and personal relationships. 

Here at Kudos, we use BambooHR and we love it. Its simplicity and features have made it an HR staple of our business. Plus, the team at BambooHR are pretty nice too. ;) So we’re super excited to introduce our new integration with BambooHR available on Kudos Plus and Enterprise accounts!

How do you create a spark at your office and remind people to have fun while encouraging imagination, innovation and collaboration? Well for us, it was a duck.

Communication is critical when it comes to employee engagement, from cave paintings to infographics, and we’ve been using visual communication for as long as humans have been around.

On May 25th of this year, a landmark European legislation called the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) comes into effect, meaning that all businesses who have clients in the European Union must comply with strict new laws regarding the handling and storage of personally identifiable information.

St. Patrick’s Day may fall on a Saturday this year, but it doesn’t mean you can’t still celebrate it in the office!

Hello, everyone! Last year, I wrote a blog about some of the ways to celebrate Employee Appreciation Day in the office.

Organizing the office holiday party can be a lot of fun, and it’s a great way celebrate the achievements that both employees and the organization have reached this year. Here are a few ideas on how to celebrate the holidays at your office. 

Employee recognition, when done well, puts a smile on an employee’s face, leads to deeper engagement and to greater productivity. As employee recognition is one of the first steps to delivering employee engagement, here are five pillars on which employee recognition programmes are built to succeed.

Culture is more than just the biggest workplace buzzword of the year 2015. There is no shortage of definitions of organizational culture.  Seriously, look it up.  After reading about 468 definitions, here is a sampling of my favourite definitions of culture:

As we appreciate the turn of the season, we begin to reflect on the seasons of our colleague’s service. In today’s post, we consider four reward occasions. Each offer a valuable opportunity to recognise, reward and to build greater levels of engagement with individuals and teams, across the whole organisation. In addition to day-to-day recognition, there are many moments to celebrate people’s professional successes, with a variety of rewards.