EVS: The 2018 Thomas A. GONDA Employee of the Year Award for Leadership

Mrs. Vijayanti is an outstanding professional colleague, and a pleasant person to work with.  Through her leadership, and mentorship, Mrs.  Vijayanti has trained staff from Managers, Supervisors to front line employees.  She has led many projects, and took leadership on staff scheduling by dedicating her time to ensure our department’s daily needs are met.  In addition to her effort, she listens to employees’ concerns and takes on leadership on the front-line staff who are falling behind.  Her approachable, and kind demeanor allows her to reach out to our front-line employees to coach them back on track and be the most valuable employees they can be by cultivating their individual skills.  Mrs.  Vijay brings the employees together to participate and generate ideas during the morning huddles.  In addition to that, she trained all the EVS managers on how to properly document attendance issues in API which raised awareness to the issues and holding everyone accountable to the attendance policy.

 

 Mrs. Vijayanti’ s biggest attribute to the management team is her mentoring of new managers by getting them acclimated to the SHC culture and environment.  She is the go to person for questions about a specific process to better understand why it was implemented and what changes took place since.  

 

Mrs. Vijayanti had always lead with integrity and loyalty for 24 years by the highest standard of professionalism.  She is the prime example of leadership by how she performs her daily tasks, how she teaches others on how to get the job done, and how she takes lead on how to overcome the many challenges our management, and front line employees encounters on the daily basis.  She takes immense personal pride and sense of urgency to make a difference in the cleanliness of patient units through coaching of employees and engagement with unit Managers. 

 

She is a compassionate and thoughtful leader.  Along with her skillsets, she has the abilities to lead her colleagues and front line employees to success.  Her management style is superior.  She is very knowledgeable and passionate about quality cleanliness in the hospital, and always provide top notch performance. She is well respected by many, and has touched so many lives.  Mrs. Vijayanti has contributed, and helped shape the EVS department, and SHC community grow. 

 

Mrs. Vijayanti has demonstrated these qualities throughout her career as a Supervisor in Environmental Services.  She is the most deserving, and most qualified employee for this award as she is an exceptional employee; and we are fortunate to work alongside her. 

CONGRATULATIONS to our very own EVS Supervisor, Mrs. Vijayanti Prasad for winning the 2018 GONDA AWARD