Kindness Connects Us: Spread positivity, warm-heartedness at UT Southwestern

December 22, 2020

Update: March 3, 2021

We may have closed out our Kindness Connects Us campaign, but the campaign was only the beginning of a larger movement of spreading kindness across UTSW. Let's make kindness part of our everyday. To help, we've compiled a list of ideas to get your kindness juices flowing.

Fill out a Kindnessgram and eac@utsouthwestern.edu it to us, so we can share it!
Create an acronym for a coworker using their first name.
Find out something new about a coworker.
Randomly send someone a "good morning" or "good afternoon" message – just for fun.
Write a positive online review about a book, business, or department.
Share your favorite recipe with coworkers, friends, or send it to the EAC eac@utsouthwestern.edu and we'll share it! (We might be working on a UTSW book of yums.)
Create an acronym for your department and eac@utsouthwestern.edu it to us.
Leave a note of appreciation for your barista, mail carrier, shuttle driver, police officer, food server, or other support roles.
Leave a note for a team member outside of your department, letting them know how much you appreciate them and what they do.
Invite someone to join you for lunch either virtually, or in the cafeteria (socially distanced, of course).
Let a former or present leader or mentor know how much you appreciate them.
Do something kind for yourself.
Endorse someone or leave a recommendation for a peer on LinkedIn.

Update: Jan. 6, 2020

Join the Employee Advisory Council for Spotlight Thursdays, where they'll ask: "Who was essential to your 2020?" EAC representatives will share outstanding PACT cards from 2020 and interview employees involved.

The Employee Advisory Council (EAC) is celebrating kindness at UT Southwestern through the Kindness Connects Us campaign – beginning on World Kindness Day, Nov. 13, 2020, and ending during Random Act of Kindness Week on Feb. 23, 2021. Every week, a member of the EAC will share their favorite quote on kindness, in an effort to lead each week at UT Southwestern with kindness and warm-heartedness.

We challenge you to join our efforts in spreading kindness and positivity throughout our workplace.

Mary Ramsey, District 1 Provider Enrollment Specialist, MSRDP Business Operations	“Kindness is having the ability to speak with love, listen with patience and act with compassion.” – RAKtivist
Rebecca Brian, District 5 Revenue Cycle Manager, Simmons Cancer Center	“Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.” – Princess Diana
Britany Singleton, District 4 Administrative Coordinator, Cardio Thoracic Surgery	“A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees.” – Amelia Earhart
Lesli Mays, District 5 Sr. Administrative Assistant, Imaging	“Kindness is spreading sunshine into other people’s lives regardless of the weather.” – RAKtivist
Kenneth Gabriel, District 3 Facilities Manager	“Today you could be standing next to someone who is trying their best not to fall apart, so whatever you do today, do with kindness in your heart.” – Robin Zachary of Llano, Texas
Kelly Glenn, EAC Events Chair Administrative Associate, Nursing Administration Support	“How do we change the world? One Random act of kindness at a time.” – Morgan Freeman
Alexis Coffman, EAC Recognition Chair Surgery Scheduler, UTSW Richardson/Plano	"Do things for people not because of who they are or what they do in return, but because of who you are." – Rabbi Harold S. Kushner
Darrel Loveless, EAC Communications Chair Sr. Database Analyst, Orthopaedic Surgery	"Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see." – Mark Twain
Paul Scott, EAC Advising Chair Manager, Learning & Development, Organizational Development & Training	"Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need." – Khalil Gibran
Detrick Lester, EAC Secretary Sr. Administrative Associate, Revenue Cycle Operations	"Choose kindness, it’s free. Sprinkle that stuff everywhere!"
Daphne Adams, EAC Vice-Chair Administrative Associate, Auxiliary Enterprises	"Be Kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about."
Amber Perez, EAC Chair Administrative Associate, Medical Group Finance	"Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless." – Mother Teresa