Most employees will tell you regular feedback is important to their professional growth. Yet, it’s an easy thing to miss when you’re busy getting the work done. But don’t skip employee recognition. It’s essential to building a hard-working team.
Recognition is a vital component in helping to make employees more productive at work. And yes, chances are your employees enjoy receiving plaques and gift certificates that signify a job well done. But when you gamify the experience through mobile apps, giving them the opportunity to track their goals and accomplishments, they can monitor their performance and more effectively work toward achieving success. Plus it introduces an element of fun. Here are 6 employee-recognition apps that are sure to make your employees want to go the extra mile.
Achievers
This innovative app allows employees to accrue recognition points that they can use on a variety of rewards, including gift cards, merchandise, or even a Visa prepaid card. Employees can also use their points as a donation to their favorite charity or bestow points on their colleagues for an extraordinary job.
Amazingly, Achievers has an employee adoption rate that typically exceeds 80%. And some of its more well-known adopters include Marriott Hotels & Resorts, Samsung, and DuPont.
Globoforce Mobile
The Globoforce Mobile app can be downloaded from Apple’s App Store. In real time employees can receive and redeem awards, nominate their co-workers for awards, approve nominations, and congratulate their peers through a social newsfeed after they’ve won an award.
Companies such as JetBlue Airways, Intercontinental Hotels Group, and Discovery Channel use the app as a connection tool for their global employee base.
iAppreciate
iAppreciate not only allows employers to reward employees for a job well done, but also offers day-to-day recognition, which goes a long way in encouraging effort. Celebrate employees’ career achievements and milestones with the app. Employees can also send encouraging messages to each other.
Finally, it’s a great tool to create memorable award presentations. Include fun facts, quotes, eCards, and certificates for the honorees.
Teamphoria!
Teamphoria! works with an employee’s Facebook, LinkedIn, or Google account and promotes employee-to-employee recognition. Through an easy-to-use form, employees can show their colleagues how much they appreciate them and acknowledge their hard work. Employees can also print out recognition awards and hand-deliver them to co-workers who have accomplished something extraordinary.
In addition to employee recognition, the app can provide insight into team member morale. It features comprehensive reports and analytics to help managers recognize disengaged employees.
Give a Wow
Give a Wow is a peer-recognition app that allows employees to give and receive accolades through a social media type platform. Employees can post about achievements and contributions made by their co-workers on a Facebook-like wall for the entire company to see.
It’s a valuable tool because it promotes a sense of community and teamwork among peers. Oftentimes, managers aren’t around to witness their team members’ achievements. The Give a Wow app ensures that employee achievements don’t get overlooked.
Tap My Back
The Tap My Back app, which is utilized by such companies as McDonald’s and L’Oréal, has several helpful features including instantaneous employee recognition, personalized badges, 360-degree feedback, and dashboards and reports. Like Give a Wow, Tap My Back focuses on peer-to-peer recognition. It provides continuous feedback on employee performance, which goes a long way in helping to motivate employees. This can then lead to improved employee engagement and ultimately happier employees.
While we love swag for employee recognition, these apps are also a fantastic way for your employees to feel appreciated in real time, not just when they receive an award at a company meeting. This, in turn, can help keep them inspired and help you retain your best talent.
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