What do video games, merit based economy, and employee engagement have in common? …Tacos!
🎮+🏅+ 🙋= 🌮🌮🌮
We hear you scratching your head while reading that, so let us explain further. One of the fundamental principles in economics is that people respond to incentives. So we’ve taken one of our core communication tools, added in video game style achievements, and made tacos the currency to produce increased employee recognition and engagement.
Employee Recognition is Vital
To start, one of SecureTech’s strategic objectives is to have happy employees. We believe happy employees take better care of each other and our customers. As humans, we require feelings of belonging and accomplishment. Being recognized and appreciated when you do something that supports the team or the company, is an important piece of feeling happy and fulfilled in your work. Knowing that the extra effort you put in is valued by your teammates immediately elevates your mood, improves your day, and motivates you to continue to take care of each other!
Maintaining Engagement Through Technology
At SecureTech we’ve been using the technology that most of us already have through our Microsoft 365 subscription, Microsoft Teams! If you’re not already utilizing Teams but have Microsoft 365, we can help you get setup.
If you don’t have it our IT services could help you to implement it easy and fast.
It has been central to our efforts to stay engaged and be available to each other remotely through video, calls, and chat. If you’re curious about how to use IT services to increase engagement remotely by utilizing technology, check out our tips here. An outstanding managed IT services can help you to implement strategies for employee recognition.
HeyTaco! is an app that can be found in the Microsoft Teams Store that you can integrate into your Teams setup. Each member is granted 5 🌮’s a day to award team members as they feel appropriate. Some of our members will award a taco because they received a quick response to a request, offered help when another teammate is struggling, or (to use the old adage) they go above and beyond in a super impactful way. You can give one taco at a time, multiple tacos to one person, or one taco to several people at once.
Every person in our company has their own style of taco giving. Some are generous with their tacos and some more precious. Its up to each person how they want to use the HeyTaco! app, but at it’s core it’s a fun and engaging way to show appreciation for your teammates and everything they do, no matter how small or great.
So I have virtual tacos…now what? 🌮🤷
Now you might be thinking, great….virtual tacos. Why do I want virtual tacos? Well here’s the best part, HeyTaco! has a marketplace where you can cash in your earned tacos for different rewards! To make sure we have coveted prizes, we take polls and requests to add items that our team members find valuable and really want! We add those as redemption options in our rewards marketplace and decide upon the value of our taco rate of exchange. Tacos as a currency! We call it… TACONOMICS!!
