Huddo Badges.
Accelerate & reward.
Accelerate & reward user adoption of HCL Connections
Huddo Badges can transform and accelerate organisations usage of HCL Connections by encouraging users to leverage the full capability of social enterprise.
Huddo Badges for HCL Connections is a flexible gamification app. By providing peer to peer recognition through achievements and rewards, rank and simple next steps, organisations can dramatically improve their user engagement and adoption of HCL Connections.
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Gamification tools or Game Mechanics work by leveraging the intrinsic human nature all of us have to receive status and rewards.
A proven formula.
Gamification apps or Game Mechanics work by leveraging the intrinsic human nature all of us have to receive status and rewards.
The theory is quite simple: Most people like recognition. They like to receive rewards and earn status. People like to progress to the next level and move up the ranks. These needs and desires can be leveraged to encourage users to engage in specific behaviour, drive user adoption and performance.
Huddo Badges for HCL Connections leverages game mechanics to help drive user adoption and participation across all capabilities of HCL Connections. Through the use of game mechanics, Huddo Badges creates a reward and recognition mechanism that not only awards achievements but also helps guide the user on how they can improve their usage of HCL Connections for better business outcomes.
When users "win" rewards such as badges, these gamification badges are designed to not only recognise the good work a person has done, but also to show them the business value of what they have done. This encourages them to expand their usage of HCL Connections with more advanced features.
Having performed many implementations of HCL Connections, ISW found that a significant factor in whether organisations achieved real business value from peer recognition software was to ensure strong user adoption and retention.
In addition, providing guidance on how to leverage the full capability of HCL Connections and helping users understand "Why?" they should leverage peer recognition software to work better, is a key success factor.
An important strategy for encouraging user adoption is providing reward mechanisms, both tangible and intangible. Huddo Badges for HCL Connections provides this strategy in a very powerful and flexible way.
Leaderboard.
What contributes to rank?
Heaps of things! Post a status update, you earn a point. Create a blog, you earn 5 points. Share a file, you earn a point. Have someone else recommend your file, you earn 5 points! As in the real world often it is the actions that others take that give you more Huddo!
You can view the Top 10 Huddo Leaderboard across all of HCL Connections, or for each individual feature such as profiles, activities, blogs, etc. If you have integrated other external systems to drive Huddo, they can also have a separate Huddo Rank category.
The Huddo Leaderboard displays ranks relative to the person logged in. This lets you see your immediate competition with the option of navigating through the ranks. You can even see how you rank against people in your network!
Unlock their Competitive Streak
Leaderboards are aspirational and give your users a fun way to track how they are doing compared with their workplace peers. The Huddo Badges leaderboard enables users to view the top contributors throughout HCL Connections.
Leaderboards can be filtered based on time enabling new and old users to start afresh and to always keep the competition alive. By default, the time intervals are set to 30 days, 180 days, 365 days and all-time but they can be changed to suit your environment.
The Huddo Leaderboard Widget can be deployed onto users HCL Connections Home Page for more prominent and regular exposure. In addition it can be deployed within a Community so you can see Huddo ranks that reflect the actual contribution from the members to the community’s content.
Earning Huddo.
People love receiving things, shiny things! Things they can show off! Huddo Badges hooks into this desire to have goals and achieve them. We provide a large range of predefined gamification badges. You can customise existing badges and rewards or you can define and add your own.Build Behaviour.
People love to show off their achievements but they also need to know what they can achieve next! The Huddo Badges details widget lists all the badges and rewards that a user has achieved. In addition users can see what challenge they want to take on next by viewing the remaining badges with a description on how to earn them. This is designed to encourage users to the next level and to explore the wider capabilities of HCL Connections.
Huddo Builds Profile.
The Huddo Summary widget is added to everyone’s profile so that others can see what achievements and rewards the person has received. When you mouse over each badge it provides you with details on why the badge was awarded and tasks that you can consider to try and win another badge! The idea is to not only reward people for their behaviour but to also provide them with guidance on what else they can do in HCL Connections.What have I learned? What else can I get? How do I win?
You can also create your own custom gamification badges and categories. Why not have some badges linked to your core organisation values? Or linked to the user performance in your Sales Force Management tool? Huddo Badges is not just about driving performance in HCL Connections but also for objectives from other applications or areas of your organisation.The Huddo Badges Details widget is also connected to the Huddo Progress Widget. When a user clicks on a badge category or mission the badges are filtered to show just the badges for that group.Far from simply rewarding user behaviour, Huddo Badges is built to encourage users to leverage the full capability of HCL Connections and to educate them on the how and why of HCL Connections.People love progression.
There is a part of human nature that drives people to progress. Levels are an indicator of achievement, reaching a milestone, or completing a mission and Huddo Badges rewards users through points, levels, and badges.The Huddo Profile Widget enables you to encourage your users to update their profile contact information, upload a photo, and all of the other basic information on their profile. This not only saves an incredible amount of time and manual guidance for IT support staff, it sets up all users with a consistent level of detail in their profile across an organisation.Beyond the basics, the Progress Widget can also link more advanced criteria such as "Have they joined their first community?", "Have they participated in a discussion forum....in the last 30 days?". You can even connect it to external applications such as HR: "Has the user completed their annual training this year?" All of these prompts drive sustained behaviour, adoption and business productivity.
Social recognition.
Giving thanks and peer to peer awards.
Creating a positive culture is essential in today’s workplace. Huddo Awards & Thanks have been designed to enable social recognition of the great work among your employees, so that the positive benefits of their achievement can proliferate across the organisation; driving more great work.
Whether its ‘Employee of the Month’ or recognition of loyalty, when staff are recognised it helps them to build their profile within the organisation. Huddo Awards takes Social Recognition to a new level by enabling peers and colleagues to like and comment on the awards; resulting in a more engaged workforce.
Adding Huddo Thanks and Awards to HCL Connections can re-enforce your culture and core values while making users proud of their HCL Connections profile. This in itself can help increase sustained adoption and engagement within the HCL Connections platform.
Thanks.
Peer to peer recognition
There is nothing quite as simple as saying "Thank You" to provide some recognition of great work. Think about it for a moment...when somebody thank you for your great idea, or for putting in that extra work to meet a deadline, or maybe for just being a good team mate, it makes you feel great and more motivated to stay engaged. That is why we have built Huddo Thanks, the peer to peer and team recognition tool for HCL Connections.
Motivate your team
We all do performance reviews (or we all should!), however often the problem is that the various achievements or small goals we meet throughout the year can be easily forgotten. Why wait for the next big meeting to provide some feedback to your team. Huddo Thanks enables you to provide real time feedback and to publicly acknowledge great work, quickly and easily. The recognition then stays visible on the person's profile so that peers and colleagues can see and recognise the value that is placed on a persons work.
Peer to Peer recognition
Thanks doesn’t always come from the boss! Often having your direct peers thank you for some great work can be a great motivator. With Huddo Thanks users of HCL Connections can select from a range of thanks related badges, choose who to award the thanks to, add a message and send it off! The thanks will appear on the users profile as well as integrate within their activity stream so that others can see it as well.
Peer to peer awards.
Management awards.
Huddo Awards allows management, departments and HR to acknowledge great achievements among their workforce. Using Huddo Awards you can build and customise a peer to peer awards and recognition program to suit your organisation, such as certifications that have been achieved, awards for tenure or years of employment, and many other examples.Huddo Awards can be granted either manually (using the Huddo Awarder Widget) by authorised users, or they can be awarded automatically by setting up Huddo Metrics for the award criteria. Huddo Metrics enables rules to be defined based on data stored in HCL Connections or other data sources via JDBC. For example you might store the Employment Start Date for users within their HCL Connections Profile and on the basis of this, award Tenure Awards for the number of years employed.When Awards and Thanks are received they appear in the HCL Connections news feed and other users can use social features such as like and comments to respond and congratulate the user on their awards and achievements.
Mobile
Huddo Badges integrates seamlessly with the HCL Connections Mobile App enabling your mobile users to also participate. If you are going to encourage and measure adoption across your entire organisation you need to make sure your mobile users are included as well.The HCL Connections Mobile App is a first class user interface. Ensuring that your mobile users are also rewarded and recognised for their contribution is essential in any user adoption plan!
