Abstract: A system facilitates employee recognition and the analysis of performance indicators for evaluation of employee performance for users of email software by utilizing a plugin to the email software to direct emails containing recognition-related content into a predetermined mailbox. The plugin provides a check box on an email interface, the email-sending user automatically adds the address for the predetermined mailbox to the email interface bcc field by checking the check box. A recognition listener periodically loops through the emails within the predetermined mailbox gathering desired recognition-related information, such as the identity of an email-sending user, the identity of each recipient, and the textual content for each email. The recognition listener calls an application processing interface to facilitate further processing of the desired information.

Abstract: A system extracts strengths attributable to persons from a database containing recognition transactions within a company communication system and provides metrics that reflect skills attributable to the persons for performance reviews, evaluations and talent management. A skills finder feature searches words from a predefined dictionary comprising words associated with strengths. A controller initiates the skills finder feature to identify transactions created or modified within the company communication system within a current predetermined period of time. A skills finding search engine searches a temporary table for words within the dictionary and extracts each strength recognized. Each extracted strength is associated with one or more skills categories. Recognitions are aggregated by skills categories and compiled into an aggregated table containing information depicting the skills categories for each of the persons accumulated from previous and current predetermined periods of time.