{"id":7689,"date":"2019-11-28T11:00:33","date_gmt":"2019-11-28T11:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"\/gb\/en\/blog\/?p=7689"},"modified":"2023-01-16T14:22:58","modified_gmt":"2023-01-16T14:22:58","slug":"give-little-kudos-thanksgiving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/gb\/en\/blog\/give-little-kudos-thanksgiving\/","title":{"rendered":"Give a Little Kudos at Thanksgiving"},"content":{"rendered":"

As our US counterparts celebrate Thanksgiving today, I\u2019m reminded that giving thanks \u2013 or expressing gratitude \u2013 is good for you<\/a> and also good for your colleagues<\/a>. It\u2019s free, it only takes a moment and it\u2019s always in supply. We should do it more \u2013 and we can.<\/p>\n

Lack of opportunity is no excuse. There are many ways to say \u2018thank you\u2019 or give someone praise: face to face, group or direct messaging, or with a greetings card. It doesn\u2019t have to be impressive; what matters is that it\u2019s genuine. When giving praise or expressing gratitude in a professional environment, some people offer LinkedIn Kudos<\/a>, the Krusty Krab uses an \u2018Employee of the Month<\/a>\u2019 scheme, and RingCentral has its own internally-facing recognition platform that is also called Kudos.<\/p>\n\t

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Kudos is a tool to help generate a sense of goodwill, engagement and motivation among the workforce. It facilitates small actions with big influence, encouraging employees<\/a> to recognise one another and remember their own triumphs rather than getting bogged down in impending deadlines. Kudos also acts as a reference for gratitude- and giving-related activities and information, such as October\u2019s Spirit Week<\/a> or the benefits of working at RingCentral<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The system encourages colleagues to give kudos to one another through gamification features like a simple points tally and various leaderboards, along with reminders for milestones such as birthdays and work anniversaries. In a more general sense, it helps employees keep up to date with what\u2019s happening across the company through news feeds and announcements.<\/p>\n

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The Kudos platform was one way we promoted Spirit Week to employees, creating a page to provide details and host visual materials, using the announcements function to get the page in front of more employees, and adding a hashtag for people to use in the messages they send over the platform. We also incentivised engagement by rewarding the top senders of kudos with an RCause Card worth $100 to give to their charity of choice.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s an RCause Card?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Glad you asked. To make the most of our workforce\u2019s goodwill, we use a customised proprietary software which supports corporate philanthropy by creating meaningful connections between corporations, employees and non-profits. What this means in English is that we can easily organise, track and participate in various activities designed to encourage our giving spirit.<\/p>\n

We call our software RCause. It has loads of functions to organise and motivate (which I\u2019ll talk about in a later post) but one of the best features is the functionality to donate money to a cause via the software, which is then matched from RingCentral\u2019s own pockets. RCause also offers gift cards, representing monetary value, that people can use to donate that money to charities of their choice. That\u2019s<\/em> an RCause Card.<\/p>\n

A Day to Give Thanks<\/strong><\/h2>\n

To join our US colleagues in celebrating Thanksgiving, and help make today meaningful here in the UK, we\u2019ve adopted the thanksgiving tradition with a simple new initiative. This morning we got together in our agile workspace to log into our Kudos platform and give thanks to anyone who makes a difference to our working day. It\u2019s an easy way to let someone know that we\u2019re grateful and is the kind of thing that literally only takes a second to do but produces effects that last much longer.<\/p>\n

Staying in the giving spirit, the latest activity we organised through RCause is participation in #rocktheribbon<\/a> for World AIDS Day<\/a>. World AIDS Day is actually Sunday 1 December, but we\u2019re wearing black and rocking the ribbon today in order to involve as many colleagues and raise as much money as possible for National AIDS Trust (NAT). We also have 30 clients visiting our office today, who joined us in our efforts for the charity. In total, we collected \u00a3100 from people who \u2018purchased\u2019 the red ribbon and we\u2019ll donate to the NAT via RCause, which will be matched by RingCentral\u2019s equivalent donation to make a total of \u00a3200.<\/p>\n

Does your company mark Thanksgiving or encourage giving thanks? I\u2019d love to hear the details of how you bring people together and express gratitude. We wish everyone a very happy Thanksgiving and encourage you to be generous with your kudos \u2013 it can make a big difference to someone\u2019s day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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