New! Greening MIT: protecting our planet
Fostering Diversity and Inclusion: maximizing MIT's strengths
Innovative Solutions: collaborating for results
Bringing Out the Best: everyday leadership throughout MIT
Serving the Client: providing consistent and exceptional service
Unsung Hero: working behind the scenes
Greening MIT: protecting our planet
This award is for teams and/or individuals who:
- Maintain and enhance MIT’s position as a leader in environmentally sustainable practices
- Serve as a role-model and broadly influence others to adopt green habits
- Implement new and effective green solutions at MIT
- Create cost-savings for MIT through resource efficiencies and conservation
- Contribute to the education and learning of our community in the areas of sustainability and environmental stewardship
Fostering Diversity and Inclusion: maximizing MIT's strengths
This award is for teams and/or individuals who:
- Promote a work environment that is collegial, supportive, and characterized by positive morale
- Take an active role in raising awareness and educating others about diversity and inclusion
- Respect and value differences and work to promote fairness and equity
- Demonstrate formal or informal leadership by embracing inclusion through positive interactions
- Leverage differences to create a more effective and productive workplace, and help the MIT community fulfill its potential
For excerpts of previous award recipients in this category go to the following link: 2009 recipients
Innovative Solutions: collaborating for results
This award is for teams and/or individuals who:
- Participate in collaborative problem-solving, breaking down boundaries and/or creating new relationships to improve the way work gets done
- Embrace change as an opportunity for growth and innovation
- Plan and implement strategies that are in the best interests of the organization
- Take a proactive and innovative approach toward finding sustainable solutions to business challenges
- Demonstrate a high degree of financial responsibility coupled with sound judgement
For excerpts of previous award recipients in this category go to the following link: 2009 recipients
Bringing Out the Best: everyday leadership throughout MIT
This award is for teams and/or individuals who:
- Develop trust and credibility through open, respectful communication and demonstrating accountability
- Provide a sense of purpose, vision and mission for their co-workers and/or staff
- Positively influence others to build consensus in group, departmental or organizational settings
- Manage and/or champion change effectively through formal or informal leadership
- Help others develop by investing time and effort in coaching and/or mentoring
For excerpts of previous award recipients in this category go to the following link: 2009 recipients
Serving the Client: providing consistent and exceptional service
This award is for teams and/or individuals who:
- Take the initiative to improve the value and efficiency of the services they provide
- Maintain a consistently high quality of service to Institute customers including students, faculty, staff, alumni, and external clients
- Anticipate clients' needs and potential problems before they arise
- Create new, cost-effective and/or innovative methods for performing day-to-day operations
- Serve as role models to others through positive and productive client and colleague relationships
For excerpts of previous award recipients in this category go to the following link: 2009 recipients
Unsung Hero: working behind the scenes
This award is for teams and/or individuals who:
- Consistently go above and beyond without fanfare
- Fill in when and wherever needed and always perform at a high level
- Take initiative to solve problems and improve work situations without being prompted
- Demonstrate reliability, perseverance, and focus on results
- Help others by sharing knowledge of Institute practices and resources or job-related skills
For excerpts of previous award recipients in this category go to the following link: 2009 recipients
