Kudos Help

What is Kudos, and what can I use it for?

Kudos helps us to build a culture of appreciation by making recognition part of your everyday experience. It helps you grow and develop by connecting with others and building networks within and across teams.


How to give Kudos in 3 simple steps

1. Recognise when someone has been amazing!

Share a personalised message of appreciation to celebrate the difference the people you work with make every day, whether that's an individual or up to 20 people.

2. Think about what you want to say

It might be a message of thanks, celebrating achievements or even great feedback from a customer.

3. Add Kudos Tags

Bring your post to life by adding tags and supporting commentary to provide additional meaning.



Find your colleagues

Simple tips to help locate your colleagues -  

  • Be sure to refresh the page in case it has timjed out.
  • Search using first name, then surname. Don't use commas.
  • You can search by C or E numbers.
  • The search results will only show 5 results - to narrow further, enter more characters.
  • Avoid nicknames or maiden names, Only official names are stored in Kudos.


Tag your colleagues

You can 'copy' people into a message using "@mentions" you do this to notify managers or other team members about your post.


React & Comment

React to add comment on both your own and others' Kudos posts to get involved in, and support the recognition that people receive.


Follow others

Following others helps you connect and build your networks and see what kind of work others are involved in. Following helps you see, comment, and react to another person's activity more easily and quickly.


Activity Feed

View the entire Santander UK activity feed, filtering by Kudos or by your "following" list. You can also see which Tags are trending.


Get Notified

Email notifications will keep you up to date on Kudos activity so you can be the first to join in the celebrations. People Managers receive weekly summaries for their direct reports' activity and you always have the bell icon in the top right hand corner of your Kudos page to catch up on previous notifications you may have missed.


Email signature

Encourage others to share their appreciation by downloading our email signature banner. Simply download the Word document, copy and paste the image onto your signature and re-size accordingly.

Email Signature


Previous or Team Data

Full data sets are available via People analytics "Recognition" dashboards from their Sharepoint pages here