In today’s skills-driven workplace, employees want more than just training, they want recognition for their accomplishments. Organizations, meanwhile, need effective ways to showcase workforce skills, encourage continuous learning, and build a culture of achievement. That’s where PeopleSoft HCM Digital Badging delivers value.
Digital badges provide a modern, visual way to recognize employee accomplishments, and key milestones. By making achievements visible and shareable, organizations can increase engagement while helping employees track and demonstrate their professional growth.
What Are Digital Badges?
Digital badges are electronic credentials that validate specific skills, certifications, or accomplishments. Unlike traditional certificates that can easily be forgotten, or misplaced, digital badges provide a persistent and accessible record of achievement directly within the PeopleSoft experience.
Employees, managers, and peers can view earned badges from a centralized location, creating a personalized portfolio of accomplishments that reflects their learning journey and career development.
A Modern Employee Experience
This modern approach to recognition aligns with employee expectations while supporting organizational goals around engagement, retention, and workforce development. With digital badges, every accomplishment becomes an opportunity to recognize success, inspire learning, and strengthen organizational capability.
Digital Badges to Recognize Achievements and Milestones
Badges can be awarded to individuals or groups, with recipient selection available manually, by group, or through file upload. Depending on configuration, additional award options may also be available through application class, or query criteria. Once awarded, badges can be reviewed, viewed in detail, or deleted through available actions.
Driving Employee Engagement Through Recognition
Recognition remains one of the most powerful drivers of employee motivation. PeopleSoft HCM Digital Badging enables organizations to celebrate achievements in a meaningful and visible way by expanding on what we delivered with PeopleSoft Recognition.
Managers can include badges as part of team recognition. Employees are able to view recognition badges from the Recognition page, and badges are visible in several PeopleSoft HCM locations, including Directory, My Team, Team Snapshot, View Snapshot, Career Snapshot, Team Talent Profile, and Talent Profile.
Digital Badges on Directory, Profile, Digital Badges Page: As you can see, a new section Digital Badges has been added which displays all the badges the employee has received.
Digital Badges on the Team Snapshot Page: Notice that the Recognition and Badges section on Team Snapshot now displays a section for Digital Badges with all badges the employee has received.
Managers can View Badges of Team Members under Team Talent Profile:
Managers can view the badges received by their team members under the Team Talent Profile, Honors and Awards section as shown below:
Administrators can configure and manage award badges directly from the Recognition and Digital Badges dashboard. Dashboard administrators can set up and award badges to drive engagement and celebrate accomplishments.
PeopleSoft HCM Digital Badging empowers organizations to recognize employee achievements, showcase skills, and promote continuous learning through visual, verifiable credentials. By awarding digital badges for service awards, certifications, volunteering, and key milestones, organizations can increase employee engagement, support skills-based talent strategies, and provide employees with a meaningful way to demonstrate their professional growth, all within the PeopleSoft experience.