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Sometimes, one person's work reaches far beyond their own team.
Products ship because someone unblocked an integration behind the scenes. A CSM closes a big renewal because they pushed to get answers to some hard product questions. A marketing manager publishes an awesome white paper thanks to a few extra interviews with an engineering SME.
The whole team benefits, but no one leader can possibly see the full picture.
With Bonusly, employee nominations and voting now give people across your entire organization a way to highlight those who go above and beyond, name the impact, nominate team members, and vote for winners they believe deserve a company award. Instead of one leader's opinion thumbing the scales, you can open up the process to your full team.
Nominations let people on your team propose peers or teams for awards based on achievements, values, and contributions. Let’s take a deeper look at how they work.
How Bonusly supports nomination programs
Our nomination features help you run a program your team can get behind, with clear criteria, real stories from peers, and a fair process that doesn't depend on spreadsheets or side convos. Our approach allows you to:
- Run individual or group programs, your way: Set up nomination periods for individual or group nominees (department, location, or team). Audience filters let you control who can nominate and who can be nominated, so each program fits the award you're giving out.
- Collect stories with custom questions: Add up to five custom questions so nominators explain what someone did and why it mattered. Preview the form before go-live so you know exactly what your team will see.
- Let more of the team participate: Add an optional voting phase with voter limits so more people can weigh in beyond those who write full nominations.
- Review results and close the loop: Review results by nominee or in a table view. Mark winners, give awards or recognition from results, and share a link with non-admins so committees and nominees can see the full picture.
Why we think nominations from your team matter
Nominations give another way for your whole company to participate in the culture you’re building. By getting input from everyone on the team, you can:
- Surface hidden impact: Managers only see their direct reports. They don't always see the person three floors away who stepped in on a cross-functional launch, or the teammate in legal who kept a customer deal on track behind the scenes. Peers see that work. Nominations give them a formal way to bring that great work to life.
- Make values more visible: Company awards illustrate core values in action. So, when you ask people to explain why someone deserves an award, you invite them to connect behavior to what your company cares about most. Core values awards, culture leader programs, and "game changer" honors work because they turn abstract principles into specific examples people can repeat.
- Bring more voices into the mix: Nominations help you get input from everyone on the team, and gets them to share awesome wins and fun stories your whole organization can celebrate. That matters especially for contributors whose impact was cross-functional, behind the scenes, or simply easy to miss in a busy week.
- Create shared rituals: Quarterly values awards, department honors before a major initiative, and organization-wide recognition periods give people something to look forward to. Programs that socialize criteria upfront, invite broad participation, and run on a predictable schedule become trusted cornerstones of your programming, helping the full team celebrate together and strengthen connection over time.
Nominations are now available on select plans in Bonusly. For more info, check out our guide to nominations.
