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Nominate exceptional staff for STAR Awards

Nominations are being accepted now for the annual UC ANR Staff Appreciation and Recognition (STAR) Awards.  The deadline for submission is April 5, 2019.

The STAR program is your opportunity to celebrate and reward the great contributions of ANR's people. The program provides one-time cash awards to eligible staff in recognition of outstanding achievement. Managers may nominate individuals and teams demonstrating exceptional performance, creativity, organizational abilities, work success and teamwork.   

Policy-covered ANR staff and members of the Clerical Unit (CX) are eligible to be nominated for STAR awards.  Staff in other collective bargaining units, academics and members of the Senior Management Group are not eligible to receive STAR awards.

Nomination forms and program guidelines are available on the UC ANR HR website. 

Send your nominations via e-mail to humanresources@ucanr.edu by April 5, 2019. 

STAR Awards will be celebrated during an ANR recognition event at the Second Street building in Davis on June 18, 2019.

 

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Nominate ANR staff for STAR awards

Nominations are being accepted for the ANR Staff Appreciation and Recognition (STAR) Program until March 31. The purpose of the award program is to recognize and reward outstanding staff individual and team performance within Agriculture and Natural Resources.

Under the STAR Program, managers are able to recognize, acknowledge and reward employees for exceptional performance and/or significant contributions related to and supportive of individual, departmental, divisional, and/or organizational goals and objectives.

Managers may acknowledge and reward individuals and teams demonstrating:

• Exceptional performance: Demonstrated and sustained exceptional performance that consistently exceeds goals and work expectations in quantity and/or quality.
• Creativity: One-time innovation or creation that results in time/dollar savings, revenue enhancement, and productivity improvement; and/or ongoing innovative/creative activities that benefit organizational systems, protocols, and/or procedures.
• Organizational abilities: Exhibiting extraordinary skills in leadership resulting in the accomplishment of significant departmental or divisional goals and objectives; effective project management, which could include developing a project and/or implementing a project with substantial success; and/or demonstrating organizational capability leading to a greater level of effectiveness.
• Work success: Significantly exceeding productivity, customer service, quality of care or similar goals, including demonstrating superior interactions with managers, peers, supervisors, subordinates, the University community, and/or clients and customers served.
• Teamwork: For team awards, the following criteria, plus the criterion above, will be considered. Acting as an exceptionally effective and cooperative team member or team leader for a team that has significantly exceeded the goals/objectives of the department/unit.

To read the STAR award guidelines and restrictions and to download the nomination form, see the attachments.

Application and selection process:

February 2016: The call for nominations is distributed to all ANR unit directors.

No later than March 31, 2016: Nomination applications submitted via e-mail to anrstaffpersonnel@ucanr.edu.

April - May 2016: An appointed review committee will review applications submitted by the due date. The committee will select up to 20 individuals and two teams to be awarded.

May 2016: Unit directors and award winners are notified of the final decisions.

 

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April 30 deadline for ANR staff award nominations

This is a friendly reminder that nominations for the ANR Staff Appreciation and Recognition (STAR) Program for fiscal year 2014-15 must be submitted to anrstaffpersonnel@ucanr.edu by Thursday, April 30, 2015.

The STAR program allows ANR unit directors, managers and supervisors the opportunity to nominate outstanding ANR staff employees and employee teams below the executive level. 

An appointed review team will review the nominations and select as many as 20 individuals and two teams to receive awards. To read the STAR award guidelines and restrictions and to download the nomination form, see the attachments or visit http://ucanr.edu/sites/ANRSPU.

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This announcement is also posted and archived on the ANR Update pages.

STAR Award nomination deadline extended to May 16

Nomination applications are being accepted for the ANR Staff Appreciation and Recognition (STAR) Program through May 16.

The purpose of the STAR program is to recognize and reward outstanding staff individual and/or team performance within the Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources.

Under the STAR plan, managers are able to recognize, acknowledge and reward employees for exceptional performance and/or significant contributions related to and supportive of individual, departmental, divisional, and/or organizational goals and objectives. Managers may acknowledge and reward individuals and teams demonstrating:

• Exceptional performance: Demonstrated and sustained exceptional performance that consistently exceeds goals and work expectations in quantity and/or quality.
• Creativity: One-time innovation or creation that results in time or dollar savings, revenue enhancement and productivity improvement; and/or ongoing innovative/creative activities that benefit organizational systems, protocols and/or procedures.
• Organizational abilities: Exhibiting extraordinary skills in leadership resulting in the accomplishment of significant departmental or divisional goals and objectives; effective project management, which could include developing a project and/or implementing a project with substantial success; and/or demonstrating organizational capability leading to a greater level of effectiveness.
• Work success: Significantly exceeding productivity, customer service, quality of care or similar goals, including demonstrating superior interactions with managers, peers, supervisors, subordinates, the University community and/or clients and customers served.
• Teamwork: For team awards, the following criteria, plus the criterion above, will be considered. Acting as an exceptionally effective and cooperative team member or team leader for a team that has significantly exceeded the goals/objectives of the department/unit.

May 16, 2014, is the deadline for nominations. Directors and managers have the nomination forms. Applications should be e-mailed to anrstaffpersonnel@ucanr.edu.

An appointed review committee will review applications and select up to 20 individuals and two teams to recommend for awards. VP Barbara Allen-Diaz will make the final selections and unit directors and candidates selected for awards will be notified by July 1.

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