Engagement & Culture
Bring colleagues together for team or company-wide initiatives and campaigns.
Engagement & Culture initiatives are endless. Are you already planning a Heritage Month celebration? Are you collecting testimonials around Valentines Day that highlight what folks love about your organization? What about a gratitude event in November?
Typically, admins on business, pro and enterprise plans create a handful of these boards a year to engage larger segments of their organization, or event the whole company, around a common theme.
Check out these ideas to get inspired
Applicable year-round:
- Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Initiatives
- Town Hall Appreciation: Prioritize recognition and inclusion by sharing praise at your next Town Hall.
- Enhance ERG Events
- Fundraiser & Marketing tool
- Office Bulletin board
- Work/Life Balance board
- Colleague Appreciation board: The board could play live in your office lobby or embed the board/slideshow on your intranet.
- Company Memories or Anniversaries
- Your Remote Workspace: Colleagues share a photo of their at home office set ups.
- Team Offsite Stories and Photos: Highlight and share memories from company get-togethers!
- How to Make Your Day 1% Better Board: Address morale by asking folks to share how they make their days just 1% better.
- This Is How I Self-Care: Individuals share ideas on how to take good care of themselves.
- Be Well: Record your company fitness challenge milestones and goals.
- What’s one thing you wish you’d known your first week or What’s one thing you learned your first week board: Invite all new-hires to add to the same board. New-hires receive advice and get to share theirs!
- Leadership Goodbyes: Give the gift of authentic appreciation when a leader within your org moves onto what's next.
Season-specific boards:
- Costume Contests
- Gratitude walls
- Company anniversaries
- Holiday Cheer Wall
- Ugly Sweater Competition
- Welcome to a New Class
- End of Year Reflections
- New Years Resolutions
- Year in Review
- Graduations: Invite professors, fellow students, family, and alumni to create a congratulatory Kudoboard for the graduating class.
- Reunions: Allow alums to re-engage with each other at reunion time.
- My Seasons Share: Colleagues share their plans outside of work for the upcoming months.
- Pet Month: Who doesn't love a moment to share about their pet?
What makes a successful Engagement & Culture board?
- Add a Direction Post
- Before inviting contributors, add a few quality example posts to showcase the type of engagement you'd like to see on the board
- Encourage users to bookmark the board for easy access
- Set a cover image for your board, which populates in board invites
- Move a handful of exemplary posts to the top of your board, and pin them there to showcase great engagement
- Make your board Global
- Embed the board in your intranet to highlight your initiative
- If applicable, tag individual teammates or groups to notify them directly when they're mentioned
- React and comment on posts
- Play the board as a slideshow in your office lobby or at an event, and show the QR code invite for easy posting
- Print the QR code invite to your board, and display prints around your office or event for easy posting
- Enable engagement reminders on your board through Slack or Teams integrations or by Email
- Notifications regarding new posts and tags are sent through those channels, as well as reminders to post for users who have been inactive
Common features utilized on Engagement & Culture boards
- Proactive moderation: board admins review posts before they go live
- Custom fields: collect additional data from contributors
- Add additional board admins
- Hashtag your core values
- Review board metrics to understand engagement
- Export board data to analyze custom fields results & other board engagement data (board settings> export data)
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Hide posts: Reveal all posts at once when the time is right, and keep them hidden for contributors in the meantime
- Note that more engagement may come from revealed posts, as contributors tend to mirror the quality posts they see on a board
We'd love to help brainstorm what could make your board even more successful. Schedule a time to meet via the link here or email us at success@kudoboard.com.
Curious about the default settings for this board category? Check out this resource.