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
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.
O.C. Tanner Global Culture Report
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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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
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
Configurable settings
Control permissions, point budgets, approvals, notifications, and more.
Self service
Allow anyone to create and manage an initiative.
Awards
Easily set award point values and tie awards to goals within the initiative.
Award Store
Employees redeem points for things they love.
Peer recognition
Employees can give each other points for contributing to goals.
Social tools
Post and follow updates and like and comment on award wins.
Platform at a Glance
Culture Cloud Initiatives includes access to:
Products
Empower everyone to celebrate daily wins and form strong workplace connections with intuitive, fun-to-use tools.
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Make work anniversaries more meaningful and memorable with personalized Yearbooks and other years-of-service recognition awards.
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Turn every corporate event into a chance to create something special that brings people together. Celebrate, connect, and have fun doing it.
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Support collaboration and foster growth by motivating teams around shared goals tied to clear timelines and clear rewards.
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Commemorate key moments with symbolic awards that inspire achievement, communicate values, and offer lasting reminders of peak experiences.
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Services
From discovery to optimization, our professional services group can help you elevate and nurture the best parts of your culture.
Communications
Integrate Culture Cloud with your brand and create organizationally specific employee experiences with help from our creative strategists.
We’ll help you track and understand important metrics around engagement, attrition, great work, and belonging using proprietary methodologies.
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Through a variety of learning modalities, we’ll help your team understand the why and how of recognition to maximize platform impact.
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Our team supports you 24/7, every step of the way, to ensure the long-term success of your program.
We partner with you to create bespoke symbols of accomplishment and belonging that will elevate your recognition strategy.
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Features and Capabilities
Culture Cloud connects to the apps and systems you use every day, so recognition is frictionless.
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Never miss a crucial moment to recognize someone. Giving and receiving recognition on the go is easy.
Our collection of offline recognition solutions ensures that every employee is included in your recognition efforts.
See live stats, culture impact, and flight risk. Export data. Manage budgets. Spark participation and gather feedback. We have tools for all of it.
Receive helpful prompts, access self-serve user guidance, and get chat support from within Culture Cloud.
Rest easy with our best-in-class uptime, airtight data security policies and processes, and global privacy compliance.
Let’s build it together
Strengthen your culture with the Culture Cloud recognition platform today.
