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Outstanding Performance Award

The SVSU Outstanding Performance Award was created to recognize annually the accomplishments of an Administrative Professional employee who has demonstrated outstanding individual and/or team performance at SVSU.

Criteria

Outstanding performance is defined as one or more of the following:

Teamwork

Acting as an exceptionally effective and cooperative team member in carrying out goals of SVSU, the Division, or department, demonstrating superior interactions with and a positive influence on managers, peers, supervisors, subordinates, the University community, and the client population served.

Exemplary Work

Demonstrated and sustained outstanding performance that consistently exceeds goals and job expectations in quantity and quality. This may include a superior effort in meeting productivity, providing customer service, or achieving similar goals.

Leadership

Acting formally or informally as leader within Department/Division/University. Gains respect, commitment, and credibility from other team members. Demonstrates ability to energize others and motivate team to reach full potential.

Creativity

One-time innovation or creation that results in time/dollar savings or benefit, or ongoing innovative/creative activities that benefit organizational systems, protocols, and/or procedures.

Organizational Abilities

Extraordinary skills in leadership resulting in the accomplishment of significant departmental/unit goals and objectives; project management (which could include developing a project and implementing it with substantial success); organizational capability leading to a greater level of departmental effectiveness.

Process

All Administrative Professional employees of SVSU are eligible to receive the Outstanding Performance Award.
Nominations may come from any person—other SVSU employees or those outside of the University. It is only necessary that the nominating person is aware of a nominee’s outstanding performance at SVSU and is willing to submit a Letter of Nomination.
- Nomination Deadline: Friday, February 15, 2013
- Nominate someone using online form »
The Committee will review all nominations and create a finalist list of no more than 10 individuals by Friday, February 22, 2013.
The Committee will then contact each finalist and request the following:
- a letter of recommendation from the finalist’s Vice President or Executive Director (submit directly to Committee)*
- recommendation from finalist’s manager (submit directly to Committee)*
- a letter of recommendation from another person knowledgeable about finalist’s performance at SVSU (may be a person internal or external to SVSU; submit directly to Committee)

*Note: if the original nominator was the finalist’s manager or Vice President/Executive Director, then a letter of recommendation from someone else internal to SVSU should be obtained instead.

Miscellaneous Notes

Finalist Materials Deadline: Monday, March 15, 2013
This award is intended to be distributed annually. However, there may not be a recipient each year and the University reserves the right to change or discontinue this award at any time.

Nominate Now

Online form - due Feb. 15

Award

The recipient of the Outstanding Performance Award will receive a stipend of $3,000.

This award is unrestricted and provided directly to the recipient in recognition of outstanding achievement and services to the university.

Committee members:

Craig Aimar
Cynthia Bala
Joni Boye-Beamon
Michelle Hoffman
Jan Poppe
Carlos Ramet