Employee Appreciation Day 2025
Happy Employee Appreciation Day!
Friday, March 7 is national Employee Appreciation Day. We want to thank you for all you do to embody our values and to elevate the patient, safety, and team experiences at Cook Children’s. For that, we express our utmost gratitude to you – we value your effort, dedication and the unique contribution you make in service of our Promise!
At Cook Children’s, we believe in the power of recognition to lift us up and help us to feel seen, heard, respected, and valued. Recognition fosters personal and professional well-being. We encourage you to mark your calendars for March 7 to recognize your colleagues and leaders who make a difference in your work each day and share some appreciation with them. Let’s spread a positive wave of appreciation across the System!
Want some help expressing yourself? Here’s a great guide: Recognition Tips and Tools to Acknowledge Others and Express Appreciation.pdf (cookchildrens.org)
Share our Cook Children’s Values
- Message of appreciation: Extend thanks, warm wishes and gratitude to your team, colleagues and leaders
- Get together: schedule some time that day or week to connect during rounding, huddles, or virtual coffee break
- Get creative on a token of appreciation or an activity for the team: healthy snacks or a favorite team treat, dress up day, bulletin board to share appreciation notes
Team Shout-Outs
We love to see your team shout-outs and photos! Last year we received more than two dozen heartfelt messages from around the System! Email your recognition messages and photos to teamexperience@cookchildrens.org now through March 10. Those will be collected and shared on the Connect Newsroom and Team Experience site the following week.
Stay Connected
Please make plans to participate in our special events throughout 2025 -- to celebrate each other and the amazing teamwork of the more than10,000 people who serve our Pinky Promise every day across Cook Children’s, from the medical centers in Fort Worth and Prosper to the neighborhood clinics, home health services, the health plan and beyond.
- Upcoming highlights include:
- Service awards program & dinner in April
- Employee appreciation month in May: campus cookouts & Texas Rangers games
- Well-being month in August
- Discounted tickets to the State Fair of Texas in September
- Halloween Hoopla in October
- Family day at Six Flags in November
- Jingle Mingle in December
Visit the Team Experience site to learn more about all the upcoming events and awards programs planned for 2025! On the main page is the 2025 Events Calendar (scroll down to the bottom). This calendar includes national holidays, professional recognition days/weeks, system employee events & more. Be sure to bookmark the page as we’ll continue to update the calendar as more 2025 event dates are finalized.
Happy Employee Appreciation Day!