What’s New With the World’s Most Complete Recognition Solution: Q4 2026

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Great recognition doesn’t end when the moment does. It brings people together, makes contributions visible, and gives employees something to keep building on. This quarter, O.C. Tanner is expanding the recognition experience in two ways: Kudoboard is now integrated within Culture Cloud® enabling employee-led team celebrations, and we’re introducing Collectibles, custom physical awards designed to grow with an employee’s career, turning recognition into a keepsake.

Kudoboard for Everyone: New Employee-Led Celebrations Inside Culture Cloud

When employees celebrate special career and personal moments together, they build belonging as a team. From organising a birthday party, rallying around a colleague at a time of celebration or loss, welcoming a new family member, or recognising a team achievement, the moments that matter deserve the right celebration tools. 

With the Kudoboard Integration, collaborative, employee-led celebrations are now available within Culture Cloud. Employees can access Kudoboard through the Culture Cloud Celebrations experience, with SSO-enabled access creating a more streamlined transition between the two. With this new celebration tool, employees can create boards for any occasion, invite teammates to participate, and contribute messages, photos, videos, GIFs, memories, and other personal content.

Broaden your approach to recognition and celebrations seamlessly, without adding disconnected tools. Kudoboard complements your existing company-led recognition experiences with employee-led celebrations, bringing more ways to recognise, celebrate, and connect, all within the O.C. Tanner experience.

The Kudoboard integration for O.C. Tanner's Culture Cloud platform

Collectibles: Build a Career Story Employees Can See

Some achievements deserve more than a moment of recognition. As your people contribute, grow, and reach meaningful milestones, Collectibles create a tangible moment to honor the individual story of each employee’s career, one symbol at a time, while connecting personal achievements to a larger story of company success.  

Collectibles are custom physical awards, offered in several wearable or displayable formats, that employees can add to over time. From Careerscapes® and Career Cubes, to Pin Boards and pins, each piece transforms an achievement, milestone, company value, or shared experience into a lasting symbol of contribution and company pride.

O.C. Tanner works with organisations to shape Collectibles around their own brand, values, history, and recognition goals. Start with a single award or create an organisation-wide system where employees can continue adding moments and memories of success throughout their careers, highlighting experiences from onboarding and everyday contributions, to career anniversaries and signature achievements. 

Building the story of a career across years of employment makes recognition tangible, as each collection of symbols connects individuals to a larger company story. Collectibles provide daily reminders of an employee’s contribution over time, pride in their work and the organisation, and what their accomplishments represent. 

Custom collectible awards created by O.C. Tanner

Recognition Moments: Celebrate a Year of Impact

Recognition Moments transforms employees’ recognition activity into a personalized year-in-review, celebrating the recognition they gave and received and the impact they made throughout the year. Now available for clients on both the Culture Cloud web experience and mobile app, employees can revisit meaningful moments, celebrate their contributions, and even share recognition highlights directly to LinkedIn.

The Recognition Moments feature of O.C. Tanner's Culture Cloud platform

Employee recognition data are drawn from Culture Cloud in-platform measurement tools. Market statistics are drawn from O.C. Tanner’s Global Culture Report research.

We've designed these innovations to help global organisations create stronger connections, more meaningful celebrations, and recognition experiences that naturally fit into the way employees work. Availability may vary by region. Contact your O.C. Tanner representative for more information.

Contact your O.C. Tanner representative to learn more about these features.

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