Shoutouts is a mission on Candor that is used for sharing kudos with your teammates. Shoutouts allows you to give a shoutout to a teammate for living one of your team values at work.
🏆 Give recognition for delivering amazing work product
💌 Thank a teammate for helping or providing support to others on the team
🙌 Show appreciation for how someone works or behaviors that really represent the team’s culture
🚀 Recognition boosts engagement and overall happiness at work. A happier team is a more productive one!
🧬 Reinforce your team values. Celebrate behavior that you want to encourage and see more of with shoutouts.
✨ Create a culture of appreciation, encouraging teammates to keep up the good work and feel seen for their contributions.
To set up Shoutouts, follow these steps:
You’ll need to invite teammates to Candor in order to give them shoutouts! There are a few options for inviting teammates to Candor.
The easiest way to invite teammates to Candor is by clicking on the ‘Invite’ icon on the left side of your Feed, next to your Team Space name.
You’ll then be prompted to input your teammates’ emails or copy a link to send them. If you copy the link, you can paste it in Slack/Teams or in an email, prompting your teammates to sign up.
With either of these methods, your teammates will automatically be added to your Team Space and invited to participate in Shoutouts.
You can also invite a teammate giving them a shoutout. First, click “Start” to give a shoutout:
Then, you’ll click “Invite a teammate” to open a modal that will collect their email and their name (optional):
You can then create a shoutout for them, which they will see when they finish signing up for Candor.
Once you’ve set up the mission, you’re ready to give a shoutout.
First, navigate to the Shoutouts dashboard by clicking on Shoutouts on the left part of the Feed:
Or, by navigating to your Team Space page and clicking the “Shoutouts” card in the top section of the page.
Once you are in the Shoutouts dashboard, you will see a “Time for Shoutouts” card. Click on the card to open the modal to give a shoutout.
Then, select which teammate you’d like to give a shoutout to. If you don’t see your teammate listed, you can also invite them at this step.
Next, you’ll be prompted to select which value your teammate is living:
Lastly, you will be prompted to add any additional text with your shoutout. We recommend sharing a specific behavior or situation where your teammate really crushed it. 💪
You can view Shoutouts in a few places:
Shoutouts have team-wide visibility, which means only members of your Team Space will see shoutouts and any related comments.
All teammates can add reactions and comments to shoutouts in the Team Space.
There are 6 possible reactions on Candor:
Teammates can add multiple reactions to shoutouts to convey how the shoutout makes them feel. They can also add comments to the shoutout.
Comments and reactions will show on the shoutout itself, in the feed, and in the Candor-integrated Slack channel (if applicable).
If you haven’t given a shoutout in more than 10 days, we’ll send you an email to remind you to share a shoutout for a teammate.
If you receive a shoutout from a teammate, we will send you a notification in-app and via email.
We’ll send a notification to Slack if someone on your team receives a shoutout (if you have Slack integrated). You will also see this in your team’s Weekly Recap email, which is sent every Monday.
To get the most out of shoutouts, we have a few tips and tricks:
Candor makes it easy to connect and have fun with your teammates, even while you’re remote. Use Candor to do feedback, shoutouts, check-ins, and more, all in one place.
Feel free to share questions or feedback with our team. We will be in touch within 1 business day.
