Kudos are a powerful way to encourage your team to stay motivated and engaged in their work. They are great for recognizing team members for a job well done, and motivating them to be even better.

It's not uncommon for team leaders to struggle to motivate and get engagement from their teams. But it's often harder for team members to understand what their manager's expectations are and whether they can actually meet those expectations.

By breaking down the barriers and creating a more transparent culture, managers are more open to hearing what their team thinks and for team members to feel comfortable giving feedback about their work.

Sometimes, managers forget to praise their employees for accomplishments, other times, the team itself won't know how to give feedback. But positive acknowledgement doesn't have to take a lot of time. The key is to create a culture that emphasizes recognizing the accomplishments of your people, big and small, where every team member can feel comfortable discussing those accomplishments.

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Get started with kudos

Give meaningful feedback based on conversations happening around you. Here's how you can get started:

The kudos commands come by default in DailyBot and help you and your team give feedback and praise from the chat with simple shortcuts.

Type @DailyBot kudos to user for {optional message}

1. Anyone can give kudos by running @DailyBot kudos in a public channel. This way, transparency is built-in from the very beginning in your feedback culture.
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2. DailyBot will send a card recognizing the person you gave kudos to and the message, if any.

Usage

Try these commands in your chat to see everything you can do with kudos.

• Type kudos to @user1 @user2 message or ++ @user message, to give kudos. A message is optional.
• Type kudos leaderboard or kudos top to see your organization's kudos leaderboard.
• Type kudos status or kudos me to get a summary of your kudos history.

FAQs

• You can add team values to your organization so they can be later used in your kudos cards. Learn more
• It is possible to configure the visibility for the leaderboard. Go to the web app > Settings > Kudos for more info.
• You can set up automatic emails about kudos to motivate the team. They can be weekly reminders or emails inviting users to give positive feedback to someone.
• You can flip the script, too, and change your leaderboard view to reflect the people who gives the most kudos. The default view is based on received kudos.

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