From Melody's Desk

Good morning!

Spring is fully in gear (even the April showers are lingering into May) and Final Exercises are upon us. As the academic year comes to an end, I encourage everyone to check out the UVA Year in Review as well as the features on several 2016 graduates.

Respect@: Thank you for your efforts to make sure you have attended a Respect@UVA session – reaching every person in UVAFinance is directly in line with our core value to have Valued, High-Performing Teams. By the June 8^th session, we expect to have 100% participation! I appreciate your commitment to this goal. Next up in promoting a healthy and respectful workplace, this fall we will offer sessions on Multicultural Fluency – Patty Marbury, Les Haughton, and Ashley Feero are working with the John Alexander, Tabitha Enoch, Diane Ober, and the Center for Leadership Excellence to develop a session specifically for UVAFinance. More on that soon!

Recognize Colleagues: Don’t forget that you can nominate colleagues as Respectful Workplace Champions with an email to respect@virginia.edu. Organizational Excellence’s Spotlight on Excellence is another great opportunity to recognize your colleagues – both individuals and teams can be nominated for this recognition.

Spring Fling / Organizational Excellence Showcase: What a great turn-out for the Spring Fling and OE Showcase last week! Stacey Rittenhouse, Lynne Schwar, Mike Hayton, Lisa Shuler, Mike Beverage, Travis Spence, Chris Brazelton, and Chris Swenson all helped to turn the outdoor fling into an indoor event. Thanks to UVA Catering Company for the excellenct food. It was also great to see the interest in the OE Showcase exhibitors – hopefully you learned something new about all the many improvement initiatives ongoing. If you didn’t get a chance to pick up a new post card featuring our vision, mission, and core values, I will be dropping off extras in each office.

Strategic Planning Committees: In the next blog, there will be an update on the work for the committees formed following our appreciative inquiry work this winter. I did want to pass along the names of the selected leader for each committee, as well as an email address to reach the group.

Committee	Lead/s	Email
Employee Engagement	Patty Marbury (FOC), Elizabeth Carey (HR)	finance_engagement@virginia.edu
Service Excellence	Julie Bird (MRP), Jennifer Bari (SFS)	uvafinance_sec@virginia.edu
Collaboration	Ana Lynch (VPF)	Aml8q@virginia.edu
Steering	Disha Venkatesan (VPF)	finance_steering@virginia.edu

Employee Connection: A quick reminder that if you ever have trouble scheduling a timely doctor’s appointment for you or a family member, you should contact the UVA Care Connection which provides access to expedited appointments for many services, plus scheduling through a single point of contact. UVA Care Connection strives to schedule primary care visits within 2 business days; specialty care visits within 5 business days; and radiology visits within 3 business days.

I will close with a link to a recent NBC29 feature on our PSDS vendor training, featuring John McHugh and Les Haughton. Check it out!

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