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TEAM Committee TEAM

TEAM, “Together Everyone Committee Members
Achieves More,” is LUT’s We thank our TEAM Committee for
internal initiative intended to their dedication to LUT and our staff.
help staff achieve department
strategic plan goals. LUT’s
staff TEAM Committee was formed in Fall 2013 to help LUT achieve its TEAM
vision: “LUT is a respectful, collaborative and inclusive workplace.”

Mike Mills
Objectives
(chair)
• Improve communication across the entire department.
Juston Bell
• Develop and implement teambuilding, skill building, and networking
strategies that promote positive collaboration and relationships.

• Build cultural awareness across programs and policies that build a strong,
more inclusive workforce that values and promotes diversity.
Virginia
• Act as a resource for employees and give voice to employee-driven culture Gamble
change that promotes an open, respectful, and accountable workplace
across the entire department. Roberta
Garcia

Initiatives

• Our September “Bingo & Breakfast” fundraiser benefited the Wounded
Warrior Project. This provided a rare opportunity for all LUT staff to get Sheila
together, raising more than $3,000! Giambrone

Tiffany Little

Angie
Passmore
The TEAM committee planned and hosted LUT’s 30th Anniversary Staff
celebration in June.
Zsuzsanna
• TEAM committee members helped rewrite LUT’s Retirement Celebrations Resch
policy, identifying a revised award system based on years of service.

• TEAM conducted a department-wide staff survey in April 2015 to provide
suggestions and ideas for TEAM’s future work program. Wess Rowley

• Several TEAM members helped plan and host LUT’s annual staff “Years of
Service” recognition event in May.
Naomi Vogel
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