The Crowdsourced Performance Review: How to Use the Power of Social Recognition to Transform Employee Performance

APPENDIX:IMPLEMENTING SOCIAL RECOGNITION

In the experience of our customers, successful social recognition programs share several operating principles. Like any management initiative, social recognition needs careful planning and implementation in order to produce a healthy return on investment. The following principles allow organizations to customize their programs and prevent the managerial and psychological “disconnects” that plague less effective programs.

Executive Sponsorship, Defined Goals, and Frequent Communication

Support from senior management is critical to success in any initiative, and this is especially true in managing corporate culture. In market-leading companies, strategic initiatives are managed using process, metrics, incentives, ...