How to use the Recognition programme template

Start a board from it
Use this template opens a new Freero board with the Recognition programme template on it (sign up free first). On a board you already have, open Templates in the toolbar and search for “Recognition programme”.
Follow the instruction on the board
“Start from what you want more of, not from prizes. Check after three months who is being recognised: if it is always the same teams, change the design.”
Fill in each part
- What we want to recognise Behaviours and results you want more of.
- Who can recognise Peers, managers, customers?
- How it happens The everyday ways to say thanks.
- Bigger moments Rewards for exceptional work.
- Budget What it costs per year.
- Keeping it fair How to avoid the same people every time.
Bring your team and your agents
Invite people to the board or share a link, and work on it together live. The timer is in the top bar, private mode and voting in the board menu, and Claude or ChatGPT can join through Freero’s MCP server.

Work on it with an AI agent

Connect an assistant once and it works on the board with you, with your permissions: by default it reads and proposes, and people decide.

You ask: “Fill in the Recognition programme board from these notes.”
What happens It reads the board, then proposes sticky notes for it. Nothing changes until someone on the board accepts them.
You ask: “Group what we wrote into themes and list the actions.”
What happens It proposes clusters with a title each and task cards for the actions, labelled with its name and yours.

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