Designed to make your mentoring program even more engaging for mentors and mentees while also helping you find even more success stories with zero extra admin! Badges bring visibility and motivation to the mentoring journey, reinforcing positive behaviours and celebrating progress. It’s a simple, visible way to drive engagement, measure impact, and show success - without additional admin effort.

Participants can receive two types of badges, Kudos badges and Achievement badges:

Kudos badges are awarded to participants by participants in 1:1 and group loops, recognising mentoring behaviours like trust-building, knowledge-sharing, and commitment. They enable peer-to-peer recognition in real time and can be awarded to acknowledge specific contributions. Kudos activity reveals which mentoring behaviours are valued most in your program, highlights highly engaged participants worth celebrating, and provides story-worthy examples of mentoring impact for your reporting and business reviews.

Achievement badges are automatically awarded when participants reach key milestones in their mentoring journey, like completing meetings, maintaining consistent engagement, or receiving high mentoring quality scores. These badges provide you with clear, measurable signals of program health and active participation, while giving participants visible recognition of their progress. 

Badges participants can get or give:

Kudos Badges: 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.

Kudos:

• 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.
• Creativity: For sparking new ideas and perspectives.

Achievement badges: Achievement badges are awarded by the Mentorloop platform; they are progress-based per loop.

• 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
• Mentorloop Champion: For completing all milestones

When participants can award Kudos badges:

As soon as they recognise any of the Kudos categories within their mentoring partnership, they can award Kudos from within Mentorloop. 

If a participant gives a score of 4 or 5 (out of 5) after completing any Mentoring Quality or Post-Meeting surveys, they will see an option to give a kudos badge to their partner.

What should my program be aiming for? 

Achievement badges are merit-based on your participant’s activity within Mentorloop. Every mentorship has its own pace, but participants should aim to unlock all achievement badges after 12 months, reaching the highest level of Achievement Badges over time. 

Program Coordinator’s should encourage all mentorships to share at least 1 Kudos Badge, per loop. 

Share and report on program's Kudos:

On the Kudos page, you can share your summary to LinkedIn. 

Program Coordinators and Program Admins can also export a CSV of all badges awarded, for their own reporting.

FAQ

• Can I customise the badges feature in any way?

Badges have been designed with best-practice mentoring in mind, celebrating the behaviours and relationships that drive impactful mentoring outcomes. Badges are not customisable.

• Can I see the kudos written feedback shared between participants?
  
  Yes, navigate to Kudos via the main menu, then the second Kudos tab ‘All Badges’. The final column displays all your participant feedback. You can export this feedback to CSV via the top right ‘export’ button. 
   

• How do I see which badges each participant has received, or who is most awarded?
  Sort the table by Recipient. Or download the CSV file for further analysis. 
   
• Can badges be used for matching?
  Badges aren't required for matching. Your signup form and participant profiles have specific information about your participant's goals and skills - this is the information the Mentorloop platform uses to create impactful, equitable matches. However, badges are displayed on participant profiles, making them visible to participants using self-match and to Program Coordinators when manually matching. Therefore, badges can provide helpful context about a participant's engagement level and the recognition they've received, supporting more informed matching decisions.
   

• When should I start to see badges awarded in my new program?
  
  You may start to see badges appear after 6 weeks, but remember that each program and mentoring partnership timeline is unique. Participants can begin sharing Kudos badges any time after their first meeting. 
  
  Achievement badges are merit-based. See above section “What Kudos Badges can my participants get, or give?” for specific badge requirements.
  
  Program Coordinator’s should encourage all mentorships to share at least 1 Kudos Badge, per loop.
  
   

  Support:

  For help or guidance using Kudos, reach out to support@mentorloop.com, or your Customer Success Manager.