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      Enhance Recognition and Engagement: A Comprehensive Guide to Creating and Managing Awards in Alkimii

      Recognising and rewarding outstanding performance is essential for maintaining a motivated and engaged workforce. Alkimii Awards is designed to make this process seamless and inclusive. Whether you're looking to celebrate excellence across departments or highlight individual achievements, this feature allows you to create custom awards with specific titles, set precise voting periods, nominate deserving candidates, and tailor voting eligibility to ensure the right people have their say. By integrating this tool into your management practices, you can foster a culture of appreciation and drive your team to reach new heights of success.

      Awards is a free update included in our Check Ins, Moments, and Surveys add-on. Learn more about this upgrade here. https://www.alkimii.com/solutions/employee-engagement

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      Create an Award 

      • Navigate to "Awards" using the menu. Your default view will be the "Award Results". Select "Awards" from the header along the top. 
      • In the top right, select "Create an Award" 
      • A creation window will appear and prompt you to enter the details to build out the award. Any items with an "*" are mandatory fields so you will not be able to save without entering text here. 
      • Give the award a title. For example, "Employee of the Month" 
      • Add a description. You could provide a reason behind the award or the voting criteria that the nomiee should be choosen on. 
      • Set the vote start and end times. These can be set to a future date as well as current and can be amended after creation. 
      • Select your nominees from the dropdown menu, these can include whole departments or specific individuals or both. 
      • You can select the voters again from the dropdown menu, by department or specific individuals or both. 

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      If you do not select departments or individuals, the default is set to the whole site. This means everyone is a nominee and everyone has access to vote. 

       

      Edit an Award 

      You will only be able to update an award nomiees or voters if the award voting period has not commenced. Any open and/or closed awards are not editable in the Awards tab. 

      • Navigate to the award you wish to update 
      • From the actions column on the right, click on the pencil icon
      • Add/Remove nominees and/or voters as you wish 
      • Click "Save" to make this change 

      Review Award Results 

      • Navigate to Awards using the menu search bar. 
      • Your default view will be  "Award Results"  
      • You can use the filter options will help you to quickly locate the award results you might be looking for. 
      • You will be able to see the award title, the voting period, the status, votes received as a progress bar, winners and your actions column.
      • If voting is OPEN, you will be able to update the voting period, review the exisiting results and delete.
      • If voting is CLOSED, you will only be able to review the results and delete. 
      • If voting is UPCOMING, you will only be able to view results and delete. 
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      • If the poll is closed, the winners will appear under the nominations list the following day. You will be able to share the winners on the news by clicking on the badge icon. This will prompt you to select an image from our moments gallery followed by the news builder where you can customise the post you wish to share with your team. 
      • To review results, click on the "eye" icon. A pop up will display breakdown of the nominations, results in a bar graph, as well as a dropdown menu named "All Results"
      • Click "All Results" to view the votes. All voters must add a reason (note) why they voted for the nominee. Click on eye icon beside the vote to see these notes. This data is exportable as a csv. 
      • Below this list we have the votes who have not submitted a response. You can use the chat bubble to the right of their name to open the chat and prompt them to submit a vote if the award is still open. 

       

      Edit the Voting Period 

      • You can use the filter options will help you to quickly locate the award results you might be looking for. 
      • If this award is open you will be able to amend the voting period end date. Simply click on the calendar icon under the action colum to the right 
      • A modal will prompt you to update the deadline using the calendar function. Once satisfied click "Reschedule voting period".