HR Pillar Award - Nominate an HR Colleague

UVA HR Pillar Award

Recognizing and rewarding value is at the heart of our HR culture, and demonstrates how HR team members' contributions directly affect the success of HR and the University.

The quarterly HR Pillar Award has been created by our HR team members for our HR community. It serves as a link to our HR Foundations work by deepening the connection with our purpose and vision, and to President Ryan’s 2030 Strategic Plan of being a great and good university. Nominations are due on the 15th of every month and selected on a quarterly schedule.

Award Categories

The HR Pillar Award has five categories: Customer Experience; Community, Health, & Wellness; Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; Innovation; and Exceptional Execution. It acknowledges team members who exceed customer expectations, improve people's lives in the UVA or surrounding community, give voice to diverse perspectives, create or streamline a process, and work to complete a project important to HR and/or the University’s mission and vision.

You may nominate a colleague for one or more of the first four categories. The fifth category of Exceptional Execution is for a project team of 7 or fewer individuals. 

  • Customer Experience

    Honorees are dedicated to continuously improving customer satisfaction, exceeding expectations, and reacting appropriately to ensure customer satisfaction. They establish and maintain positive and effective working relationships with fellow staff, faculty, students, and internal/external customers.

    HR Pillar: People Focused, Leading Expertise

  • Community, Health, and Wellness

    Honorees help to improve the lives of people in the UVA and/or surrounding community. This could include but is not limited to promoting wellness in a department, working with a local non-profit, and helping to coordinate a fundraising effort.

    HR Pillar: Mission Driven, People Focused

  • Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

    Honorees demonstrate that they have made a difference at UVA and/or the surrounding community.

    HR Pillar: Strategic Approach, Mission Driven

  • Innovation

    Honorees create and/or streamline a process that results in a reduction in cost and/or time for HR and HR staff. Cost and time saving needs to be documented.

    HR Pillar: Innovative Practices, Exceptional Execution

  • Exceptional Execution - Team Category

    Honors teams for the collective efforts of an outstanding group of seven or fewer individuals who work to complete a project that is important to the University’s mission and vision. The core is cross functional teams coming together to achieve success.

    HR Pillar: Leading Expertise

Eligibility & Rewards

HR team members (not including SLT and above) are eligible for the award. There are two opportunities for recognition, quarterly and annually. Four individuals and one team (for each category above) will be selected and recognized at our quarterly HR All-Hands Meetings. At year-end, the Annual HR Pillar Awards will be granted to one individual from each of the first four categories, and one team from the fifth category, chosen from the quarterly winners. Annual winners will receive $1,000 each and a framed certificate. Quarterly winners will receive $250 each and one day of PTO.

Nominations

You may nominate a colleague for one or more of the first four categories. The fifth category of Exceptional Execution is for a project team of 7 or fewer individuals. Please limit one person and one team per category. Nominations are reviewed by the Selection Committee which considers how candidates best fit the nominated category, how they demonstrate the behaviors of the pillars or impact the HR community or University.

To nominate an HR colleague and/or project team use this Nomination Form. 

Selection Committee Volunteer

If you wish to volunteer to serve on the Award Selection Committee, or recommend a colleague to serve, please complete this Selection Committee Form. The time commitment is approximately 2 hours per quarter – one hour reading nominations and one hour attending the selection meeting.

Questions

Please reach out to Tonia Duncan-Rivers, HR Rewards & Recognition.

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