What we're talking about this month:

🚀 The Next Generation of Kudos is Coming!
📈 An Effective Employee Engagement Strategy
🧠 Mental Health Awareness Month

Kudos^® Achieves ISO 27001 Certification, Proving its Commitment to Best-in-Class Information Security in Employee Recognition & Rewards

Kudos recently announced that it has achieved ISO 27001 certification, marking a significant milestone in the company's ongoing commitment to information security. Kudos' achievement of the ISO 27001 certification comes at a crucial time when information security is a key concern for HR departments worldwide.

What is an ISO 27001 certification?

This certification helps to identify security gaps and vulnerabilities, protect data, avoid costly security breaches and improve cyber resilience. Certified organizations demonstrate that they take information security extremely seriously and have a structured approach towards planning, implementing and maintaining data.

Achieving this certification adds tremendous value for current and prospective Kudos clients at a time when vendor reliability has become critical.

Kudos Updates

🚀 The Next Generation of Kudos is Coming!

Exciting upgrades are coming to your Kudos platform. We designed these upgrades to improve your admin experience and help your organization celebrate and recognize each other easily and more often.

Here's a quick preview of what's coming:

Simpler Admin Experience: Streamlined points budgeting and intuitive user segmentation to save you time and make program management easier.
Improved Nominations: The new nominations feature is easier to manage and more visible, empowering your team to recognize outstanding contributions more often.
New Incentives Feature: A new claimable incentives feature to boost engagement and drive action for anything from training to wellness initiatives.
Automated Milestone eCards: Automatically celebrate your team's special moments with a special card—never miss a milestone again!

Kudos Next Gen will be launching later this year, and we can't wait for you to experience these powerful new tools firsthand.

Interested in an early preview? Reach out today to learn more and be among the first to see Kudos Next Gen in action!

Stay tuned for more updates.

Culture Enhancer

📈 How to Build an Effective Employee Engagement Strategy

Employee expectations have changed, and organizations that want to remain successful are actively working to address these new expectations.

This guide offers strategies for successful employee engagement that, when integrated effectively, can create a workplace where employees are engaged, productive, and aligned with the company’s mission through these five key areas:

Leadership’s role in fostering employee engagement
Living by your corporate core values
Elevating organizational culture
Enhancing engagement through recognition
The power of effective communication

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May 2025 Kudos Banners

Here are your May 2025 banners for your Kudos platform. You can select one of these banners, or create your own, and upload it right into Kudos. Learn more about uploading a banner into your Kudos platform, or how to customize your theme in this support article.

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Tip of the Month

🧠 May is Mental Health Awareness Month

Mental Health Awareness Month is a vital reminder that mental well-being is just as important as physical health, especially in the workplace. When employees feel supported, seen, and safe to speak up, they’re more engaged, productive, and loyal.

But when mental health is ignored, the costs add up fast. Prioritizing mental health at work isn’t just the right thing to do, it’s a smart business decision. Here are some resources to help:

A Manager’s Checklist to Employee Check-ins: All the questions you should be asking your team in your one-on-ones.
How to Support Employee Well-being and Mental Health in the Workplace
Mental Health in the Workplace: What HR Leaders Can Do
Infographic: How to Support the Mental Health of Your Team
Career Planning Guide: A step-by-step guide for employees to work through with their managers.

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