25 Fun and Creative Ideas to Add to Your Employee Point-Based Reward System

Every employee incentive program (hopefully) covers the basics, rewarding team members for their success and major milestones. But when you have an employee point-based reward system, there’s plenty of room to expand the actions that earn points. With a little creativity, you can encourage more collaboration, more learning, and more fun!

Here are 25 ideas for activities you may not have thought to add to your employee point-based reward system but are definitely worth encouraging.

READ MORE: Tips for Creating Effective Employee Points Reward Programs

Skill Development and Training

It’s important for team members to continue to learn and grow their knowledge in their field. By rewarding those who participate in training or who train others, you’ll see a bigger focus on improvement and development.

1. Earning an industry certification.
2. Taking an online management course.
3. Hosting a brown-bag training session about a work process that needs to be streamlined.
4. Presenting a particular success story or best practice to the team.
5. Participating in the company mentor program.

Collaboration and Teamwork

It’s easy to say your employees work well together, but by fostering those connections — both within your team and across the company — you can achieve even more synergy and find new and innovative strategies.

6. Presenting about their role to another team to build cross-departmental relationships.
7. Helping to train a new hire.
8. Planning a team get-together or team-building activity.
9. Reviewing another team member’s work that’s outside the scope of their own role.
10. Participating in a brainstorming session.
11. Writing a LinkedIn testimonial for another team member.
12. Sharing a useful resource or website with everyone.

Supporting the Company Mission

While every person’s day-to-day projects are somehow key to the company’s success, there are many other little things that can help move the needle, too. When you make them part of your employee point-based reward system, you’re more likely to see a significant increase in action, which, collectively, could make a big difference.

13. Finding a typo or mistake on the website and alerting the right team.
14. Sharing or reposting the company’s content on social media.
15. Representing the company at a trade show, conference, or job fair.
16. Participating in the interview process for open positions.

Just for Fun

Teams that have fun together see success together! Managers everywhere have heard about or experienced the shift in what people are looking for in a job, and creating a positive work environment is the first step in keeping your team happy. Why not help formalize the process by adding smile-inducing tasks into your employee point-based reward system?

17. Sharing a non-work-related skill during a lunch-and-learn.
18. Sharing the best gif in the team chat.
19. Keeping a desk plant alive for a year.
20. Creating the most fun background for a virtual meeting.
21. Having perfect meeting attendance for the week or month.
22. Bringing a snack to share with everyone at the office.
23. Getting photo-bombed by an adorable pet or child during the virtual team call.
24. Having the best desk decorations for a holiday.
25. Sharing vacation photos or recommendations with the team to encourage work-life balance.

If you’d like to give instant rewards to your employees in addition to or instead of points, you can now do it directly in Microsoft Teams via chat or during live meetings. Learn more about our Teams integration!

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Hannah Prince

Hannah is a reformed journalist who has more than 15 years of experience and now focuses on content marketing for innovative tech companies.

Hannah is a reformed journalist who has more than 15 years of experience and now focuses on content marketing for innovative tech companies.