How some Yale departments recognize staff members' great work

It’s Your Yale asked staff members how they and their colleagues recognize accomplishments in the workplace. See below, in alphabetical order by first name, the entries we received. Thank you to all who participated.

NAME	DEPARTMENT	STAFF RECOGNITION
Abbie Kundishora	Yale Center for British Art, Conservation Department	We use our afternoon breaks to celebrate with a treat! Usually it’s a choice between ice cream, chocolate pastries, or donuts.
Alex Glidden	Development	Lots of pizza
Amy Fenner	Urology	Certificates and sometimes cookies :)
Ann Vitale	Opthamology	We get “stars” with comments from patients or co-workers.
Audrey Rogers	Office of Diversity & Inclusion	Monthly meetings, email, greeting cards, verbal recognition
Carissa Violante	Women’s Health Research at Yale	We will bring in treats, like cupcakes and cookies; make congratulations posters; and share cards with notes of congratulations.
Cerella CraIg	Psychiatry	Our supervisor hands out certificates!
Christinea Pearson	Custodial Services	We give each other great comments when the job is well done, and we also have small celebrations during break time to honor them.
David W. Moore	TR&S	Working and making the dept better
Diane Chandler	HR, Employee Services Center	We have a breakfast or luncheon.
Donna DelBasso	Biostatistics	Luncheons
Janet O’Dell	School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS)	This summer SEAS will be taking a Thimble Island Cruise for our staff to get together. We are calling it SEAS on the SEAS!!
Karen Reynolds	Pathology	Longevity award ceremony once per year
Kim Thomas	Anesthesiology	We have a luncheon/bkfst for service years ( 5, 10, 15, etc.), for workplace survey results, etc.
Kimberly	Psychiatry	By celebrating with baked goods
Kyle Preston	Cytology	We do our best to individually recognize people we know. Working in a large and diverse department has its challanges.
Linda Bergonzi-King	ITS/HR Workday	Our director encourages everyone to call out moments of awesomeness when co-workers have gone above and beyond.
Louise Danishevsky	Economic Growth Center	The staff received flowers and candy for Administrative Assistants Day.
Louise Wallace	Internal Medicine	In our monthly staff meeting, our superviser will recognize our accomplishments.
Lynn Bouffard	Anesthesiology	We are celebrated by having a luncheon.
Marcia Thomas	Nursing	By holding a recognition breakfast for our amazing C&T staff. We provided them with personlized mugs.
Marcy Kaufman	History	Our Chair takes us out to lunch at the end of every academic year to celebrate a job well done.
Margaret Greene	Geology and Geophysics	Staff also awarded at annual Awards Luncheon
Marianne Russo Arrigone	Under Graduate Admissions	Every year, they buy each of us a plant for Administrative Professionals Day. We have an annual picnic and holiday party.
Marleen Vega-Perez	FRMS	Special acknowledgements are given during staff meeting — A pat on the back or a word of praise in front of the team.
Matthew Tanico	Graduate School of Arts & Sciences	Each year, the GSAS Dean recognizes the staff’s hard work and achievements at a staff picnic at HGS.
McKenzie Granata	English	With cookies!!!
Melody Martin	Environmental Engineering	We are given a very nice lunch every summer and are recognized for various achievements.
Meridith Cayer	Physician Associate Program	Yummy Treats! Our department is great about bringing in baked goods imported from foreign countries to celebrate successes!
Orimena Givens	Yale Medicine	Verbal recognition during staff monthy meetings
Patrick O’Brien	Center for Teaching and Learning	In collaboration with our 2 exec. dirs., we started a weekly update to share admin. updates and recognize accomplishments.
Paula Farnsworth	Physics	Physics celebrates long service! Here, Tom Hurteau & Lil Vinston cut their cake to celebrate 25 and 15 years, respectively :-)
Paula K. Jackson	Yale Medicine Credentialing	Go out for lunch or order in.
Rick Davis	Office of Development	Major anniversary outings: bowling, brewery
Robert Haig	ITS Help Desk	We have a video display board where we post complimentary comments from our clients.
Shengfan Zhou	Internal Medicine	Celebrate through gathering at bar or restaurant.
Stacey Scirocco	Office of Research Administration	We get together to have a celebration, and for the long service awards, the department puts together a high-quality poster w/ pics.
Terri Budney	Payment Processing	We just started having a small food celebration and cards.
Tim Opstrup	Office of Cooperative Research	Acrylic award for specific achievement…presented at celebration lunch after a successful large project, in front of the dept.
Tim Opstrup	Office of Cooperative Research	Gold Star Program. Write achievement on a star & give to a colleague. Anyone can do it and it has to be specific & public.