19 Awesome Employee Story Campaign Ideas 👈
Find inspiration in these employee story campaign ideas to boost culture, keep teams connected, onboard new employees, and more!
We organize story-seeking quests into what we call "campaigns." Think of a campaign as an effort to fill a treasure chest of stories (by theme) that can help you accomplish goals related to employee engagement, recruiting, employer branding, marketing, continuous learning, etc.
💡 PRO TIP: Weave campaigns into existing business processes like awards submissions, project management, project debriefs, ideation programs, mentor and intern programs, etc.
Here are 14 campaign ideas to help fill those buckets:
1. Celebrate Success - Monthly campaign to collect stories aligned to values.
2. New Hire Heroes - Campaign to collect stories about new hires and their impact.
3. Yearbook - End of year campaign to capture team's most notable milestones.
4. Day in the Life - Campaign highlighting an employees' day (by staff level).
5. First Month Wrap - Invite new hires to share highlights from their 1st week or month.
6. Anniversaries - Campaign to collect employees' proudest moment for every year.
7. Intern Impact - Seasonal campaign to capture stories about intern work experiences.
8. Campus Recruiting - Capture stories alumni who attended schools you recruit from.
9. Career Transition - Spotlight employees' successful transitions from another industry.
10. Candidate Journey - Campaign to capture stories about the candidate journey.
11. Mentor Moments - Campaign to spotlight mentor and mentee relationships.
12. Corporate History - Get tenured employees and alumni to share pivotal moments.
13. Training Time - Invite employees to share a success or lesson related to recent training.
14. Day, Week, Month Celebrations - Administrative Professionals Month, etc.
15. Project Milestones - Invite teams to share lessons and milestone impact stories.
16. Debriefs and Wrap Ups - Build a library of memorable moments from key projects.
17. Internal Awards - Don't fill out a form, submit a story to nominate.
18. External Awards - Capture stories to differentiate industry award submissions.
19. Ideation Contests - Recognize, reward and promote new ideas in practice.