With our recent overhaul of Hero Points, we’ve seen some seriously huge waves on the OnHand team leaderboard.
After all, who are we to shout about doing good if we’re not doing good ourselves There’s nothing like a hearty dose of optimism to kickstart the team into gear, so we thought we’d share exactly what our new Hero Points system has done to our team (fair warning: it’s pretty bloodthirsty). We also hope that we can inspire competition in your own teams!
We take the whole ‘doing good’ thing pretty seriously. Team Marketing received some dire news on a rainy October Monday: they were last on the leaderboard.
This just wouldn’t do. It took until the end of the day to eke into second-to-last (still nothing to brag about, but it offered a glimmer of hope for the team’s prospects).
Of course, this sparked much debate and trash talking of Tech and Biz Dev. Marketing were determined to climb the leaderboard, and they were determined to do it quickly. Thus began a desperately hatched plan to rack up points, and rack ‘em up fast.
Marketing’s efforts weren’t in vain. Their Tech takedown, mere hours after their initial war cries, was a huge stroke to their competitive egos.
Thus began the journey to today, one that’s involved a huge upheaval of everything OnHand has known about the leaderboards (namely, that Sanjay Lobo, OnHand Founder and CEO, was always going to be top dog.)
The 3-points-for-all system had quite a few disadvantages (we’ll throw our hands up and be the first to say it wasn’t the best way to track doing good). One of the key disadvantages on the OnHand team leaderboard was that the first OnHanders had a competitive advantage! Since points were all measured the same, Sanjay was well into the 300s by the time we really started to scale our team.
Beating Sanjay was just an impossible dream – at least, until the Hero Points change, that is.
Well, actually, let’s head back in time a little bit. About a month before we relaunched Hero Points, the impossible happened: Sanjay was knocked off the top spot by James from Team Biz Dev.
Naturally, nobody could believe their eyes.
This was the first domino for a new era of competition. Post-Hero Point changes, nearly 2 months after James nixed the top spot, Marketing nabbed the top spot on the leaderboard (and weren’t shy about bragging about it).
Sanjay started to sweat.
The leaderboards have continued to fluctuate massively, with every OnHander grappling for that coveted top spot. We’ve seen Biz Dev, Marketing, Finance, and Product all making huge leaps up the leaderboard, determined to earn the bragging rights of ‘Best Do-Gooder at OnHand’.
At the time of writing, Sanjay sits at 7th place. How the mighty fall.
We’re always shouting about how getting your team to do good starts at the top. Take Sanjay’s example; by getting our CEO involved (and pretty fired up!), we’re all super motivated to keep working on that healthy competition. Give it a go in your team!
This brings us to the relaunch of our internal good.
Our internal good is exactly what it says on the tin. Even though we’re the ones looking after the app and everything in it, we want to do good and feel great too!
Now that Hero Points lend themselves so well to healthy inter-team competition, we’re revitalising internal good.
With both functional team and regional team competition at play (and you set up multiple teams on your own organisation’s dashboard, so don’t be afraid to switch things up to keep competition fresh), there’s some serious prizes on the line for the quarterly and yearly winners of the coveted ‘Most Hero Points’ title. From trophies to personalised swag to wooden spoons for the losers, we’re taking Hero Point competition seriously.
With regular leaderboard updates and encouragement to get stuck in with our very own 12 Missions of Xmas campaign, we’re off to a cracking start (at least, Marketing is. Everyone else is due to catch up.)
We can’t forget why we’re doing all this, though. At the end of the day, we all want to do good in our local communities, for people and planet. We want to win, sure, but every single action we take on the OnHand app reminds us what we’re doing this all for: to make it as easy as possible for people to do more good in the world.
If you wanna get stuck in with the competition we do so well, chat with us today! We promise we’re nice, when there’s no Hero Points on the line.
