“As we listen to our people’s feedback, we decide to focus on a few areas to enhance our employee experience. We try to cultivate a culture of real-time recognition in our company, where a simple token of recognition for a job well done can encourage our colleagues to feel appreciated and motivated. Given that the younger workforce are digital natives, we opted for an flexible points and recognition app to consolidate our various people engagement activities into a single platform.”
Human Capital Leader, Big 4 Professional Services Firm
A prominent professional services firm
The Company is one of the “Big Four” professional services firm that provides audit assurance, tax, and consulting services. The Malaysia office employs over 2,500 employees.
How this Big 4 Professional Services firm increased employee motivation and engagement with SelfDrvn
The challenge – retention of valuable workers
The company was facing tough competition for millennial workers; a demographic that is tech-dependent and craves reward and recognition. Users of the existing employee recognition program were frustrated with the administrative burdens and lack of real-time recognition, resulting in unmanaged burnouts and subsequently leaving the organization.
The objective – enhance employee engagement and retention through the use of real-time recognition
The company wanted to improve user experience by providing point driven real-time recognition directly from managers to employees that are transparent with rewards and recognition feature for the redemption of points earned and awarding badges for the positive behaviour. The key driver for the success of the objective needed to be a reduction in administrative burdens and ease of use for employees and managers.
The solution – real-time rewards for high performing employees
Enter SelfDrvn – a one-stop solution to engaging employees as well as their managers. SelfDrvn is a user-friendly, comprehensive employee engagement digital solution. It provides a consumerized user experience using mobile technology, gamification, and data analysis to transform the employee experience.
With the launch of the flexible points and recognition app powered by SelfDrvn, the company focused on three key features of the that enabled the company to achieve its objective of managers recognizing employees anywhere, anytime and track the results:
- Rewards
- Badges Allocation for positive behaviours
- Report: Allocated Reward Transaction
- Rewards Transaction Report
With the features above, employees are able to keep track of points rewarded by their managers by points and badges as a result of recognition of tasks done and for performing actions like peer support, collaboration, and subsequently convert the points to vouchers that are of use to the users – all powered by a single mobile application.
To the managers, they are now able to promptly instill positive morale to the team by quickly distribute points electronically to employees who can then receive their recognition immediately.
Rewarding High Performing Talents with their gifts of choice
Based on the employee’s performance, high performing employees are rewarded with points which they can accumulate the points and use them to redeem rewards that are meaningful to them, something that they choose and truly want.
Achieving a high 80% adoption rate
After implementation of the flexible points and recognition powered by SelfDrvn, the use by the company’s managers began to rise immediately and significantly to an adoption rate of 80%. Within the first 6 months, over 2,000 employees received recognition and this garnered positive reviews from the users that also include the impact of more regular, quantifiable recognition by their managers. Based on a gamification model, SelfDrvn fosters participation, healthy competition and meaningful dialogue with managers, teams and co-workers.
The case for success
With constant competition for market share as well as talent, companies must invest wisely and with sufficient data to support business decisions. Historically, businesses haven’t always viewed employee engagement as a prime driver of the bottom line.
The company’s results are strong indicators that a clear, timely and transparent recognition given by managers are key to employee engagement to celebrate their efforts and timely feedback of their performance in their job activities – made easier when powered by an ease-of-use employee engagement solution can dramatically increase participation and buy-in from employees and managers.
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