What we're talking about this month:
- 🎉 Download your Employee Appreciation Day Kit
- How to Enable Your Leaders Through Recognition
- How to Be a Strategic Partner in HR
🎉 Your Employee Appreciation Day Kit
It’s almost that time of year – Employee Appreciation Day is on Friday, March 7, and we have everything you need to help you make this day extra special.
What you’ll find in your Employee Appreciation Day kit:
- 📣 Kudos Platform Banners: these banners can be uploaded into your Kudos platform to acknowledge and celebrate the day.
- 🏅 A Badge: this Employee Appreciation Day themed badge can be awarded to your teams in your Kudos platform.
- 🔎 Kudos Recognition Scavenger Hunt: this customizable game is an excellent team building activity to add to your celebrations.
- 🗓️ March Recognition Calendar: with recognition ideas and prompts to celebrate all month long.
If you would like additional help in creating an Employee Appreciation Day campaign for your organization, please reach out to your Client Success Manager or support@kudos.com.
Kudos Updates
How to Enable Your Leaders Through Recognition
A SelectSoftware Reviews report put lack of recognition as the number one reason people leave their jobs. Gallup’s 7 Workplace Challenges for 2025 also puts recognition as one of the biggest manager blind spots, and a key growth opportunity for most managers is establishing a habit of meaningful recognition.
How can we better enable leaders to recognize their teams?
- A Leader’s Guide to Employee Recognition: this guide offers actionable steps to empower your leaders through recognition.
- Kudos Recognition Assistant: this tool makes sending recognition quick and easy and helps craft the perfect message for your teams.
- 20 Recognition Examples: this blog offers various recognition examples and how to write a meaningful recognition message.
- Using the My Team filter in Kudos: remind your managers they can use the My Team filter on their Kudos Wall to display only the recognition activity happening in their teams to make engagement easier.
Culture Enhancer
March 2025 Kudos Banners
Here are your March 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.
👊 International Women’s Day: Rights. Equality. Empowerment.
International Women's Day (IWD) has been celebrated annually on March 8 since the early 1900s and has since evolved into a global movement. IWD is a powerful call to action for gender equality and celebrating women’s achievements in social, economic, cultural, and political spheres. It serves as a reminder of the progress made and the work still needed to break barriers and ensure a more inclusive and equitable world.
Each year, the day is marked by events, discussions, and campaigns that amplify women's voices and drive meaningful change. Use hashtags #IWD2025 and #AccelorateAction in recognition messages and on social media channels to help spread awareness and spark important conversations.
Tip of the Month
Check Your Balance for Employee Appreciation Day
If you have rewards enabled in your platform, Employee Appreciation Day is an excellent opportunity to remind your teams of the rewards available to them in Kudos. Check your Kudos points balance and encourage your teams to use their reward points and treat themselves to something special.
Reach out to your Client Success Manager or support@kudos.com if you need any assistance.
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HR’s Role as a Strategic Partner: Driving Business Success Through People Strategy
Strategic HR partners help drive growth through people-focused strategies. HR’s ability to act strategically is so important that companies are fundamentally changing how they work to enable them to spend less time on transactional work and more time on strategic work.
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