Kudos
Kudos let colleagues recognise each other for what they did. A kudos goes to one or more colleagues, with a message and, if you like, one of the organisation’s company values. HR chooses who sees kudos by default, keeps the list of values, and moderates anything reported.
Who can change kudos settings and moderate kudos: Owner, HR admin.
Everyone gives and reads kudos. See Check-ins and kudos.
How kudos work
Section titled “How kudos work”- Open Kudos from the Work menu and click Give kudos. Choose up to 10 colleagues, write What for, choose a Company value if you want, and choose Who sees it.
- You can give kudos to current colleagues you can find in the directory. You cannot give kudos to yourself.
- Colleagues react (👏 ❤️ 🎉 ⭐ 🙏) and comment.
- Kudos never count in a score. They are recognition, not assessment.
Kudos stay inside the organisation. A seconded worker at a client receives kudos from their agency: HR, their line manager, and colleagues at the same client. People who work for the client itself are not members of the agency and are not offered.
Who sees a kudos
Section titled “Who sees a kudos”| Visibility | Who sees it |
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| Everyone here (the kudos feed) | Everyone who can see the recipients in the directory. A seconded worker at one client does not read about another client’s |
| Only them and their manager | The giver, the recipients, and each recipient’s manager at the time it was given |
HR reads a private kudos only once someone reports it.
Settings
Section titled “Settings”-
Open Kudos and choose the Settings tab.
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Choose who A kudos is seen by by default: Everyone here (the kudos feed) (the default) or Only them and their manager.
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Choose whether The giver may choose who sees each kudos. When they may not, every kudos takes the default.
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Choose whether to Tell each recipient’s manager when their report receives kudos.
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Choose whether to Send everyone a weekly digest on Monday. It says how many kudos were given, never who or what. It is off by default.
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Click Save.
Emails about kudos say who gave kudos and for which value, never the message.
Company values
Section titled “Company values”Company values are what kudos are given for, such as Teamwork or Integrity.
- Click Add the starter values to add an editable starting list.
- Click New value, enter the Name, an optional Description and its Order, and click Save value.
A kudos copies its value’s name when it is given, so archiving a value later keeps the kudos as it was.
Moderation
Section titled “Moderation”Anyone who can read a kudos, apart from its giver, can report it with a reason. HR is told, and the kudos appears on the Moderation tab.
- Hide removes the kudos from every feed. Give Why it is hidden; it is kept in the audit log. The giver is told it was hidden, not why. Every open report on it is closed.
- Restore to the feed brings a hidden kudos back.
- Dismiss closes a report without hiding the kudos.
Kudos in reviews
Section titled “Kudos in reviews”A review cycle can show each reviewer, read-only beside the review form, the kudos their reviewee received in the period. Each reviewer sees only the kudos they could read anyway: a peer sees the public ones; the manager also sees private ones given while they managed the person.
It is off unless you turn it on. Under Kudos in reviews on the Settings tab, switch it on for each open review cycle you want. Kudos are context for the reviewer. They never count in a score.