Initiatives

Share goals.
Share success.

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With Initiatives, the Culture Cloud® platform offers simple yet powerful ways to unite employees around core values, motivate teams to collaborate on key objectives, and celebrate each other’s contributions to group success.

Bring people (and programs) together

Collective purpose is a powerful motivator

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Rally teams

Clear targets.
Clear rewards.
Can’t lose.

Foster connection

Encourage cross-functional teamwork

Manage performance

Align goals and track progress

Consolidate programs

Less administration. More success.

Build skills

Support growth and hone dynamic teams

Stay compliant

Make it mandatory, but make it fun

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Employees with strong connections to their team are

10x

more likely to thrive at work.

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As a result of using Culture Cloud Initiatives, 3M experienced stronger team collaboration and increased employee engagement.

Boost any initiative

Include employees in team goals that create innovation, engagement, and community (and reward them along the way)

Gamify the nonnegotiables

Create initiatives that reward clean workspaces, equipment checks, compliance certifications, forklift safety, information security awareness, and more.

64%

Highly integrated recognition increases odds of high employee engagement, which is linked to 64% fewer employee safety incidents. Learn more

Go deeper than closed deals

With Culture Cloud Initiatives, you can target any sales metric you like, such as revenue, churn rate, response time, and calls per day. Daily or weekly awards can ladder up to quarterly or annual goals.

44%

Organizations with integrated recognition that rewards both small and large efforts are 44% less likely to have employees suffering from burnout.
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NewYork-Presbyterian rewards employees through communication plays that tie points to referrals and other important initiatives.
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Include employees in talent acquisition

Reward employees for referring candidates for key positions. With Culture Cloud Initiatives, you can easily cater the award level to the role and create special awards for referrals that lead to hires.

Encourage employees’ growth

Our research shows that skill building opportunities are crucial to retaining employees. Culture Cloud Initiatives is designed to help you create programs that incentivize training, education, and mentorship. Learn more

9x

greater odds of employees planning to work at their organizations one year in the future when leaders and organizations support skill building.

Build healthy, happy teams

With Culture Cloud Initiatives, it’s easy to create programs that support movement, nutrition, good sleep habits, financial planning, book clubs, getting outside, and more.

65%

of companies with strategic, holistic wellbeing programs saw improvements in their company cultures. Learn more

Hit key deadlines

Motivate teams to launch brands, products, features, services, or stores on time, with rewards at key mileposts. Culture Cloud’s social recognition tools help balance extrinsic and intrinsic motivation. Learn more

At Ocwen, employees participate in corporate social responsibility activities and leaders use Culture Cloud to recognize the employees who volunteer and make these initiatives successful. Learn more

Support what your people care about

Through DEIB, sustainability, volunteering, voting, and fundraising initiatives, Culture Cloud can help you make a difference in your community.

Make any outcome happen

Ignite teams or catalyze the whole company. Reflect core values or KPIs. Influence everything from lead gen to lean production. Culture Cloud Initiatives can help you move the needle in virtually every area of your business.

Build and manage programs your way

On and off toggle

Configurable settings

Control permissions, point budgets, approvals, notifications, and more.

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Self service

Allow anyone to create and manage an initiative.

Point levels

Awards

Easily set award point values and tie awards to goals within the initiative.

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Award Store

Employees redeem points for things they love.

Peer recognition

Employees can give each other points for contributing to goals.

Social media features - like, comment, follow

Social tools

Post and follow updates and like and comment on award wins.

Features and capabilities

Culture Cloud Initiatives includes access to:

Culture Consulting
From discovery to optimization, our professional services group can help you elevate and nurture the best parts of your culture.
Brand and Communications
Integrate Culture Cloud with your brand and create organizationally specific employee experiences with help from our creative strategists.
Research and Assessment
We’ll help you track and understand important metrics around engagement, attrition, great work, and belonging using proprietary methodologies. Learn more
Education
Through a variety of learning modalities, we’ll help your team understand the why and how of recognition to maximize platform impact. Learn more
Client Success
Our team supports you 24/7, every step of the way, to ensure the long-term success of your program.
Custom award design
We partner with you to create bespoke symbols of accomplishment and belonging that will elevate your recognition strategy. Learn more
Integrations
Culture Cloud connects to the apps and systems you use every day, so recognition is frictionless. Learn more
Mobile app
Never miss a crucial moment to recognize someone. Giving and receiving recognition on the go is easy.
On-the-Spot tools
Our collection of offline recognition solutions ensures that every employee is included in your recognition efforts.
Admin Tools
See live stats, culture impact, and flight risk. Export data. Manage budgets. Spark participation and gather feedback. We have tools for all of it.
In-app support
Receive helpful prompts, access self-serve user guidance, and get chat support from within Culture Cloud.
Enterprise security
Rest easy with our best-in-class uptime, airtight data security policies and processes, and global privacy compliance.

Be in good company

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Let’s build it together

Strengthen your culture with the Culture Cloud recognition platform today.

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