FREESKILL v1.0UPDATED 2026-08

Employee Recognition

Employee Recognition turns supplied evidence into a private or consented recognition draft, a fair recurring program, or an audit without inventing impact or selecting a winner.

Useful recognition names a supplied contribution, connects it to supported impact, credits shared work, and matches the recipient's preference. Missing incidents, dates, metrics, collaborators, value connections, and consent stay visible. They do not become plausible details added to make the message sound stronger.

Recurring recognition needs a fair process before it needs a winner. This playbook prepares criteria, nominations, evidence checks, conflict recusal, repeat-recipient handling, individual and team eligibility, cadence, and a private decision record for an authorized human review body. It does not choose, score, rank, or recommend a winner.

Recognition loses credibility when the story is stronger than the evidence.

SIGNALS YOU NEED THIS

A thank-you note is generic because the contribution or supported impact is missing.

A public shout-out is requested without recipient preference or consent.

A recurring award has nominations but no eligibility, evidence, conflict, repeat-recipient, or decision-authority rule.

REPLACES

Generic praise, invented impact, popularity contests, exposed nominations, surprise public attention, and rewards promised without authority.

PAIRS WITH

SBI Format Feedback, Annual Reviews, Goals, Coaching Models, and Business Writing. Ratings, compensation, promotions, and other employment actions stay separate.

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STEP 01Lock the evidence and channel

Record the supplied situation, date, contribution, impact, collaborators, value or goal connection, recipient preference, audience, and reward authority. Keep every missing field visible. If public preference or consent is absent, prepare a private artifact or confirmation step instead.

RECIPIENT
  R-17
SITUATION
  August 2 release-checklist review
CONTRIBUTION
  Found a mismatched field and documented the correction
SUPPORTED IMPACT
  Prevented five records from needing rework
COLLABORATORS
  None supplied
CHANNEL
  Private note
PUBLIC AUTHORIZATION
  Not supplied

STEP 02Draft specific recognition

Name only the supplied action and supported effect. Credit collaborators and dependencies the input names. Do not create a quotation, reaction, personality trait, broader performance claim, or value connection. Public wording still waits for supplied recipient preference or consent.

PRIVATE RECOGNITION DRAFT
  Thank you for finding the mismatched field in the August 2 release-checklist review and documenting the correction. Your work prevented five records from needing rework.

EVIDENCE GAPS
  Recipient name: Name needed
  Value or goal connection: Not supplied
  Reward: None promised

STEP 03Design fair recurring mechanics

Before a recurring award opens, define observable criteria, required evidence, individual and team eligibility, cross-functional review, conflict recusal, repeat-recipient handling, tie and correction rules, decision authority, cadence, owners, due dates, and a review date. Apply the same evidence standard without using visibility or popularity as a proxy.

PROGRAM CONTROL
  Eligible population: Rule needed
  Individual and team eligibility: Both included, final rule needed
  Evidence standard: Situation, date, contribution, impact, criterion, shared credit, source
  Authorized human review body: Reviewers needed
  Conflict recusal: Required for a material conflict
  Repeat-recipient rule: Rule needed
  Decision date: Date needed
  Fairness review date: Date needed

STEP 04Prepare the human decision and delivery record

Check nomination completeness and prepare an unranked slate plus a private decision-record template. The artifact does not choose, score, rank, or recommend a winner. The authorized human review body records its decision and recusals. Confirm preference before public delivery and state a reward only when authority and terms are supplied. Do not convert recognition into an employment action.

DECISION RECORD
  Decision authority: Authorized human review body needed
  Evidence considered: To be recorded by authorized reviewers
  Recusals: To be recorded
  Selected recipient or team: Authorized human decision needed
  Decision rationale: Authorized human record needed
  Recipient preference or consent: Confirmation needed
  Delivery channel: Private until confirmed
  Reward authority and terms: Not supplied
  Performance rating or employment action: Not produced

Download the folder into your agent's skills directory. It uses only the material you provide and makes no remote calls.

skills/employee-recognition

employee-recognition/
├── SKILL.md                             ← draft, program, and audit modes
├── meta.yaml                            ← version, sources, test prompts, changelog
├── LICENSE.md                           ← MIT
├── assets/
│   ├── recognition-draft-template.md    ← private, public, or nomination draft
│   ├── recognition-program-template.md  ← fair recurring program
│   └── recognition-audit-template.md    ← evidence and program audit
└── references/
    ├── employee-of-the-month.md         ← recurring selection mechanics
    └── praise-and-recognition.md        ← evidence, shared credit, and delivery

INVOKE IT LIKE THIS

"Draft recognition for this win."

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