Award Nominations Your Team Actually Joins

Launch structured nomination campaigns for the awards that matter, Employee of the Month, Values Champions, Safety, President's Award, and more. Peers nominate people or whole teams, vote with a reason, and admins award winners in one click, with fair frequency limits built in.

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An example of the Recognize employee nomination software UI.

One Workflow, Every Award

Create an award, set the schedule, and let peers do the rest. Nominations flow in from wherever your team already works, Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, Outlook, Viva Engage, Slack, the Chrome extension, mobile, and the web app, and land in a single admin view.

The Recognize nomination admin dashboard shows nominees, nominators, vote counts, and winners for each campaign.

Structured, recurring campaigns

Run nominations in defined periods, monthly, quarterly, annually, or a custom window, that open and close on schedule. Recurring campaigns are created automatically so there is nothing to reset each cycle.

Quick nominations

Turn on quick nominations to let people recognize a peer in seconds, no long write-up required, so participation stays high across busy and frontline teams.

Nominate people or teams

Celebrate an individual or an entire team. Flexible recipients make it easy to honor cross-functional groups and shift crews, not just single employees.

Fair, built-in governance

Set global and per-award frequency limits so recognition stays meaningful, allow or block self-nominations per award, require a reason, and control who can nominate with role-based permissions.

Automated campaign reminders

Recognize nudges eligible voters when a campaign opens, at the mid-point, and before it closes, so nominations do not get forgotten.

Admin dashboard with export

Filter and sort every campaign by status, badge, interval, or date range. See nominees, nominators, vote counts, and winners at a glance, then export to Excel or CSV.

Awards That Match Your Culture

Setting up a nomination is as easy as creating a custom badge. Design the award around your values, add a description, pick an image, and choose how often it can be won.

Create a nomination award by configuring a custom badge in Recognize settings.

Popular Employee Award Nomination Ideas

  • Employee of the Month
  • Employee of the Quarter
  • Employee of the Year
  • Values Champion Award
  • Innovation Award
  • Safety Award
  • President's Award
  • Customer Service Award
  • Team of the Quarter
  • Above & Beyond Award
  • IT Award
  • Efficiency Award
  • Rising Star Award

Vote With Context, Award With Confidence

Every nomination can carry a written reason, so admins and managers see exactly why someone was put forward. Review nominees and vote totals for any period, then award, or un-award, a winner with a single click. Frequency limits keep the same people from winning back to back, so recognition stays credible.

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Review who was nominated, who nominated them, and why, then award the winner in Recognize.

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