Kudos badges are awarded to mentors/mentees by mentors/mentees in 1:1 and group loops, recognising mentoring behaviours like trust-building, knowledge-sharing, and commitment.
There are two types of badges:
Achievement badges recognize your progress throughout your mentoring journey. You'll automatically earn badges as you hit important milestones, like completing mentoring meetings, staying consistently engaged, or receiving great feedback from your mentoring partner. These badges celebrate your commitment and give you something tangible to share on LinkedIn.
Kudos badges let you recognize your mentoring partner's contributions in the moment. Award a badge when your partner gives you valuable advice, listens thoughtfully, or helps open doors in your career. You can even share or receive an optional message with personalised feedback! These badges make the often invisible impact of mentoring visible, showing your partner their efforts are valued and appreciated. You can also share kudos you receive on LinkedIn!
What Badges can I get, or give?
Kudos: These are merit-based and can be awarded multiple times. Each new award of the same Kudos badge updates the total number displayed on the badge icon.
You earn these badges by having meaningful mentoring partnerships, and reward your mentoring partner when you recognise these behaviours.
Achievement badges: Achievement badges are awarded by the Mentorloop platform; they are progress-based per loop.
What does each badge mean?
When you click on a badge, you will see a description and the progression criteria (where relevant). Here’s a breakdown:
Kudos badges:
- Trust: For building safe, trusted, empathetic relationships.
- Networking: For connecting people, resources and opportunities.
- Expertise: For sharing knowledge with impact.
- Commitment: For consistently showing up and following through.
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Creativity: For sparking new ideas and perspectives.
Achievement badges:
- Excellence Levels: Bronze =3 x 5/5 Mentoring Qality Score, Silver = 6 x 5/5 MQS, Gold = 9 x 5/5 MQS
- Momentum Levels: Bronze = 5 meetings, Silver = 10 meetings, Gold = 15 meetings
- Mentorloop Certified: For completing the Mentorloop Participant Course quiz in Help Hub
- Growing Together: After completing your first meeting + post-meeting survey
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Mentorloop Champion: For completing all milestones
How do I give Kudos?
- Navigate to Kudos, and select ‘Give Kudos’.
- Select who you would like to recognise, personalise your note and send!
When you submit a 4 or 5 star post-meeting or MQS survey, you will have the opportunity to award a Kudos badge to your mentoring partner.
How do I know I have received a Kudos or Achievement Badge?
On the Kudos Page, if it’s greyed out, you’re yet to be awarded. You’ll be notified via email, notifications and highlights when you are awarded a badge, either by Mentorloop or your mentoring partners.
Where and when will I see Kudos and Achievement Badges in Mentorloop?
You can find your Kudos and Achievement badges on the Kudos page via the main Left Hand Side menu.
You can see a summary of other people’s Kudos & Achievement badges when viewing their profiles via Find A Match (only self-match programs have this view).
Only you and your Program Coordinator’s will be able to see the written Kudos feedback about you. You can’t see Kudos written feedback about other participants.
You can expect to start receiving Kudos badges after a few productive meetings with your mentoring partner. Achievement badges are merit-based from the platform, see above for the criteria.
How can I share my Kudos badges externally?
You can share your badges to LinkedIn. You need to ensure you have connected your LinkedIn account, via Integrations.
Support:
If you need help or guidance using Kudos, please reach out to support@mentorloop.com.