Accolades

Create an Accolade

1. Create a new accolade via the quick actions button, Motivate and Recognize > Accolade, or through the left-hand navigation, Accolades > + Create.

2. Complete the Accolade Form

What is this Accolade Called?

Accolade Name: 

If eligibility to achieve an Accolade is limited to a specific time frame, we recommend including the time frame in the naming convention.

Description:

Optionally provide detail to assist users in understanding the Accolade. 

Image:

Choose an image from our library or upload a fun image that represents this Accolade! 

↳ Click Upload Image if you opt to upload an image from your device.

Click the  button to move onto step 2.

2. How Do Employees Earn This Accolade?

Accolade Type - There are 3 types of Accolades that you can build.

1) Metric Performance:

Establish a single threshold for employees to achieve. This can include a single metric or multiple metrics.

1. Eligibility dropdown: How often can employees earn this Accolade? If Monthly is selected, your employees will be able to earn this Accolade once per month.

2. Optionally list an Incentive that is associated with achieving the Accolade.

3. Select the Metric from the dropdown menu and add the Target for the metric selected. (Click the + New Metric button to add additional metrics if needed.)

• Note: Ratio metrics, Formula Builder Metrics created by division, are not applicable to Accolades

Example: A $40k Revenue / Month Club Accolade would select Monthly for Eligibility, Revenue for Metric, and 40000 for the Monthly Threshold.

2) Metric Performance with Multi-Level Progression:

Establish increasingly difficult levels for employees to unlock and achieve (ex: 5, 10, 25, 50 meetings set). Create up to 10 Achievement Levels, each has their own name, incentives, & targets.

1. Eligibility dropdown: How often can employees earn this Accolade? If Monthly is selected, your employees will be able to earn this Accolade once per month.

2. Achievement Level Name: The form will default to Level 1, Level 2, etc. but these can be customized to fit your needs. Examples include:

• Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum
• $50K, $100K, $250K, $1M...
• 25 Meetings Sets, 50 Meetings Set, 75 Meetings Set...

3. Level Incentives: each level can have it's own incentive, for example: PTO, $100, etc..

4. Metric: Select the metric from the dropdown menu and add the target for the metric selected. (Click the + New Metric button to add additional metrics if needed.)

• Note: Ratio metrics, Formula Builder Metrics created by division, are not applicable to Accolades

Example: A Multi-Level, Monthly Appointments Held Award

3) Employee Discretion:

1. Eligibility dropdown: How often can employees earn this Accolade? If Monthly is selected, your employees will be able to earn this Accolade once per month.

2. Who Can Award This Accolade?
     1) Manager-to-Employee: Only managers can give this accolade type (ex: MVP of the Month).
     2) Anybody-to-Anybody: Any user can give this to any user (ex: Shout-out Award).

3. Optionally list an Incentive that is associated with achieving the Accolade.

Advanced Settings:

Use the Advanced option to select a specific Start and End Date for when your employees can earn this Accolade:

Start Date:

Date the award is available to be earned, designating when Ambition will start collecting data towards the Accolade. The Start Date can be back-dated to a historical date. 

Note - The Start Date does not change the eligibility time frame selected above.

If "All Time" is selected, the Start Date will determine which year the Accolade will start collecting data rather than a specific date. Selecting a specific date will be over-written to the beginning of the year.

Example, if November 1st, 2020 is input as the Start Date, after saving the date will update to January 1st, 2020.

While historical Start Dates allow for Users to be awarded Accolades based on historical data, if an Accolade is created at a point in time where Users will already have achieved the entire Accolade or a specific level(s), the Date Earned will be the same as the Accolade Created Date.

Example an Annual multi-level progression Accolade is created in August, but the Start Date selected is January 1. Andy is listed as achieving 3 levels in the same day because that's when the Accolade was created and earned.

End Date:

Date that the Accolade will no longer be available to employees. End Date is the date that Ambition will stop collecting data towards the Accolade.

Click the  button to move onto step 3.  

Which employees are eligible to earn this Accolade?

Select the appropriate User Hierarchy Level for this Accolade.

ex. Users All, Users Within a Group/Role/Location, or Users > Custom

Read more about Ambition Hierarchy Levels here 

3. Click the Create button to create the new Accolade.