Shoutouts help your team turn Core Values into a visible, everyday habit. In Strety, you can recognize teammates for the values they are living, share that recognition with the right audience, and connect Shoutout activity to the spaces, Agendas, Reviews, and reports where your team already runs EOS.
Use this guide to create Shoutouts, choose where they appear, understand who gets notified, and review recognition trends across your organization.
Shoutouts Feature - Overview Video
Above is video walkthrough of Strety's Shoutouts that shows a quick glimpse on how to use this feature
What Shoutouts are used for
Shoutouts make recognition visible across your team or company. They are especially useful for reinforcing Core Values, celebrating strong work, and giving leaders a clearer view of how team members show up day to day.
Core Values are most useful when your team sees them in action. Shoutouts give your organization a shared record of who is living your values, where recognition is happening, and how those moments connect back to your people, meetings, and Reviews.
A Shoutout can recognize one person or multiple people. Each Shoutout includes:
The person or people being recognized
The Core Value or Core Values they demonstrated
A short message explaining the recognition
The space where the Shoutout is created
Visibility and notification settings
Tip: Use Shoutouts to connect recognition to specific examples. A short, specific message helps the recognized person understand what they did well and helps the rest of the team see what living your Core Values looks like in practice.
Prerequisites
Before you create or review Shoutouts, make sure:
Your organization has Core Values set up in Strety
You have access to the space where you want to create or view Shoutouts
Shoutouts is enabled in Adminland > Advanced Features
The person you want to recognize is a member of your Strety organization
Note: Core Values appear as selectable options when they have already been set up for your organization. If you do not see Core Values when creating a Shoutout, check with your leadership team or Account Owner.
Shoutouts is an optional tool. If your team wants to keep its setup EOS Pure, an Admin can turn off Shoutouts from Adminland > Advanced Features.
Create a Shoutout
You can create a Shoutout from several places in Strety, including the global Create button, a specific space, another Strety item, or a teammate’s profile preview. Each Shoutout can include one or more recipients, one or more Core Values, and a note explaining the recognition.
From the global Create button
You can create a Shoutout from the global Create button anywhere in Strety.
Click the Global Create button.
Select Shoutout.
In the recipient field, select the person or people you want to recognize.
Select the Core Values they demonstrated.
Add a message explaining why you are recognizing them.
Choose the space where the Shoutout should be created.
Review the subscriber and visibility settings.
Click Send.
When you send the Shoutout, Strety notifies the appropriate people based on the space, subscribers, and visibility settings you selected.
From a specific Space
You can create a Shoutout directly from a space.
Open the Team Space, Project Space, or Person Space.
Select Shoutouts.
Click Create on the top right of the Shoutout feed.
Add the recipient, Core Values, message, and visibility settings.
Click Send.
Creating a Shoutout from a space helps keep the recognition connected to the team, project, or person it relates to.
From another item
You can create a Shoutout from work items when the recognition is tied to something specific.
You can create Shoutouts from:
Rocks
Rock milestones
Measurables
Headlines
To Dos
Issues
To create a Shoutout from an item:
Open the item or click its three-dot menu.
Select Create or Create Shoutout.
Choose Shoutout.
Add the recipient, Core Values, message, and visibility settings.
Click Send.
This is useful when someone completes a Rock, resolves an Issue, hits an important Measurable, or demonstrates a Core Value through a specific piece of work.
From a Member's Profile Preview
You can create a Shoutout directly on a person's profile preview to make directly creating shoutouts for your team mates easier
To create a Shoutout from an a Person's Profile:
Hover over a Person's avatar anywhere in the app
A Profile Preview will appear, where you can select Send a Shoutout
Add the recipient, Core Values, message, Space, and visibility settings.
Click Send.
This is useful when someone completes a Rock, resolves an Issue, hits an important Measurable, or demonstrates a Core Value through a specific piece of work.
Choose where a Shoutout appears
When you create a Shoutout, you can choose where it belongs. This controls where the Shoutout appears and who can find it later.
Use space and visibility settings to keep a Shoutout within a team or share it with the whole company. This lets your team recognize people in the way that fits the moment.
You can create Shoutouts in:
A Company Space
A Team Space
A Project Space
A Person Space
By default, Shoutouts created from the global create button and Profile Shoutouts are sent to the Company Space. This is useful when you want the recognition to be visible across the organization.
If you create a Shoutout in a specific space, it appears in that space’s Shoutouts list.
Note: When a Shoutout is shared company-wide, it is visible to all internal users except external users.
Choose who gets notified
Shoutouts include subscriber settings that control who receives notifications
For Company Space Shoutouts, the default subscribers are typically the sender and the person or people being recognized. The Shoutout is still visible in the Company Space.
For Specific Space Shoutouts (Teams, Person, Projects), you can choose whether notifications go only to the sender and recognized person, or to members of the team.
You can also create a Shoutout in a specific space and make it visible company-wide. This is useful when the recognition is connected to a team, project, or person, but the whole organization should see it.
View and interact with Shoutouts
View a Shoutout notification
When someone sends a Shoutout, subscribers receive an inbox notification.
A Shoutout notification shows:
Who sent the Shoutout
Who was recognized
Which Core Values were recognized
Where the Shoutout was created
Click the notification to open the full Shoutout page.
View Shoutouts in a space
Each space has its own Shoutouts page. You can view Shoutouts in the Company Space, Team Spaces, Person Spaces, and Project Spaces
To view Shoutouts in a space:
Open the space.
Select Shoutouts from the list of tools.
Review the Shoutouts list.
The Shoutouts list shows:
Who was recognized
The date the Shoutout was sent
The space where the Shoutout was created
The Core Values recognized
The Shoutout message
The sender
Reactions
Click any Shoutout in the list to open it and view comments.
View company-wide Shoutouts
The Company Space Shoutouts page shows Shoutouts that were shared company-wide.
To view company-wide Shoutouts:
Open the Company tab.
Select Shoutouts.
Review the company-wide Shoutouts list.
This view shows every Shoutout marked as a company Shoutout. It also shows the original space where each Shoutout was created.
Company-wide Shoutouts give your organization a shared feed of recognition. People with access can review, comment on, and react to Shoutouts from one place.
Filter Shoutouts
On any Shoutout Board in any space, you can filter the Shoutouts list to find specific recognition activity.
Available filters include:
Recipient
Sender
Core Value
Date
Note: If a Shoutout recognizes multiple people or Core Values, it appears in the filtered list when one of the selected options matches the Shoutout.
Interact with a Shoutout
When you open a Shoutout, you can view the recognition details and interact with it.
You can:
Add a reaction to the shoutout
Add a comment
Create related items from the Shoutout, such as To Dos, Issues, or Headlines
Related items stay connected to the Shoutout so your team can keep context around the recognition.
Tip: Add a comment when you can provide extra context or reinforce the recognition. Reactions are useful for quick acknowledgment, but comments make the recognition more meaningful.
View Shoutouts in Agendas
You can review Shoutouts during an Agenda.
Shoutouts can also support 1:1 Agendas, team Agendas, and leadership Agendas by bringing recent recognition into the conversations your team already runs in Strety.
To add Shoutouts to your Agendas as an Agenda item:
Open your Agenda
Click on Add... on the left Agenda items list
Select Shoutouts
In an Agenda, the Shoutouts view shows recognition activity for that team. You can choose whether to show only company Shoutouts or focus on Shoutouts related to the team.
The Shoutouts Agenda item view includes:
Total Shoutout activity
Core Value recognition trends
Most recognized team members
Top Shoutout senders
Tip: Review Shoutouts during team Agendas to reinforce the behaviors your team wants to see more often. This creates a regular rhythm for recognizing people who live your Core Values.
Adding Shoutouts in Reviews
You can add Shoutouts to a Review by adding it as a Section in the Review Form. The video above shows how Shoutouts can be tied to Reviews
The Shoutouts section shows recognition activity for the direct report during the selected Review period.
In the Shoutouts section, you can see:
How many Shoutouts the direct report received
How many Shoutouts the direct report sent
Which Core Values they were recognized for
Who recognized them
This helps you understand how people recognized the direct report for living your organization’s Core Values during the Review period.
This gives managers and leaders additional context for quarterly conversations by showing how a direct report has been recognized for living your organization’s Core Values.
Shoutouts can also appear in the Review Agenda after the Review is filled out and the Agenda is created.
View Shoutout Reports
The Shoutouts Report gives your organization a broader view of recognition activity.
Reports help your organization see recognition patterns at scale, including where Core Values are showing up and who is sending or receiving recognition most often.
To view Shoutout reports:
Open your company Reports.
Select Shoutouts.
Use the filters to adjust the report view.
You can filter the report by:
Recipient
Sender
Core Value
Date
The report includes:
Total Shoutouts
Number of team members recognized
Number of Core Values recognized
Most recognized Core Value
Shoutouts by Core Value
Top Recognized team members
Top Shoutout Senders
The report also includes a feed where you can review Shoutouts that match your selected filters, including company-wide Shoutouts and space-specific Shoutouts.
Manage Shoutout digest emails
Strety can send Shoutout digest emails that summarize daily recognition activity.
To manage your Shoutout digest email preference:
Open the Company tab.
Select Shoutouts.
Click the email icon in the top-right corner.
Enable or disable the digest email.
Note: Digest emails are turned on by default for Integrator and Visionary roles. Other members can opt in from the Company Shoutouts page.