SESDA Peer Awards
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| Team ADNET has established an awards program to provide SESDA employees with an opportunity to recognize valuable contributions made by their SESDA coworkers during the preceding year. These very special awards were first given in 2007 in recognition of the contributions made by SESDA employees during the first year of the contract in 2006. Since then, outstanding SESDA employees have been recognized by their peers each year.Peer Awards are awarded every year by soliciting nominations from full-time SESDA employees. The nomination period usually starts in April and remains open for a month. The Peer Awards Committee, consisting of the previous year’s Peer Awards winners, selects the winners. There is absolutely no management involvement in the selection of awardees. Winners are presented their awards at the SESDA Peer Awards picnic held in June of each year. | Click for more information: |
| Message from the ADNET President:Excellence. Innovation. Leadership. Customer Service. Commitment.These are just a few of the qualities that embody the Peer Awards’ winners throughout all of Team ADNET on SESDA. Our Team continues to thrive based on the individuals who consistently deliver results and solutions that exceed the expectations of our customers and our leadership team. And each year, we recognize these individuals both ceremoniously, amongst their colleagues and their families at the annual picnic, and financially, to demonstrate our commitment to the innovation that ensures our GSFC customers are at the forefront of the science community.What distinguishes the Peer Awards from other Team ADNET staff awards and recognition is that recipients are nominated by their colleagues; SESDA leadership and the Team ADNET companies have no involvement or influence in this process. The Peer Award Committee, comprising the previous year’s Peer Award winners, review the nominations and select recipients whose accomplishments are notably distinct for the impact upon the contract, our customers, and the Team.
This process empowers our employees to deliver excellence and recognize superior performance. And, winners also earn the tremendous responsibility of selecting their successors the following year. This drives a system of distinction and merit that employees own, raising the levels of creativity, responsibility, and accountability with growing success. It’s important to note that our entire workforce achieves a level of collective excellence by the customer through our annual award fee. The Peer Awards distinguish “the best-of-the-best” throughout the entire Team on an annual basis. It is with tremendous pride that ADNET and our Team ADNET partners present this site to celebrate the achievements of Peer Award winners, past and present. We appreciate your continuous achievements that fuel the success of the entire Team. Ashok Jha |
Message from the SESDA Program Manager:ADNET and our Team ADNET company partners place tremendous emphasis on employee recognition. Its importance is hard to overestimate: studies of turnover in the workplace have shown that the two most important factors in retaining employees — both more important than salary! — are offering challenging jobs, and providing recognition. Certainly here at Goddard Space Flight Center, the first of those is largely a given: practically everything we do here supports NASA’s colossal accomplishments at the very pinnacle of human achievement. And so it is up to us on SESDA to ensure that our outstanding employees receive the recognition they deserve for their groundbreaking work, day in and day out. There are many avenues of doing this, but certainly one of the most important are is annual Peer Awards. There are a number of reasons why we place so much emphasis on this award. For one, it is very highly selective: in a typical year, only about 3% of the staff receive them. For another, it is an acknowledgment that the recognition of our coworkers is every bit as important in the quality of our working life as recognition from our managers or customers. Thus, the Peer Awards are determined with no management involvement at all: the awardees are selected through a genuine peer process, because it is the employees who — naturally, knowing their jobs best — also know who among them are the leaders, the innovators, the team players, in short, the superstars among us.I’d like to thank everyone who participates in this process and who thus recognizes its importance: the peer committee members and everyone who puts in a nomination. Saluting the role models among us on SESDA reminds us of our importance to each other as colleagues, coworkers, friends, and fellow contributors to NASA’s success. And of course, I’d especially like to thank the Peer Award winners themselves for being those role models.
Mike Tripicco |
