• Phase 1: Colleges, schools and campus community awareness (Fiscal Year 2025)
• Phase 2: Divisions and units (Fiscal Year 2025)

• Socializing new employees with Texas A&M’s culture and core values
• Engaging current employees with the Aggie Core Values
• Providing a data point for assessment with engagement and retention efforts
• Improving personal records for employee career advancement
• Supporting internal and external recognition within Texas A&M and The Association of Former Students
• Informing evaluations, talent management and succession planning to support the employee thriving plan

Peer messengers deliver the message of a Core Value form for those recipients’ behaviors who have gone above and beyond their perceived job duties. By personally delivering the good news, trained peer messengers reinforce the appreciative nature of this process and the Aggie Way Engagement Program.

The precedent program used the term “a cup of coffee” to signify these informal, peer conversations to bring awareness of observed behavior. We use the “cup of coffee” icon to signify sharing the good news of recognized exemplary behavior with the recipient.

Those that are interested in becoming a peer messenger should sign up for a training. Once training is complete, you’re eligible to be called upon by a unit to recognize a peer who is the recipient of a Core Value form.

• Sign Up!  Volunteer to be a Peer Messenger
• Get Trained!  Peer Messenger Training

This process outlines the route from exemplary behaviors to celebrations through the Core Value form and those that support and oversee the process. An individual submits a Core Value form, which is sent to a secure university-sanctioned database to be claimed, vetted and acted upon by the Aggie Way Engagement Program rapid response team (RRT) members and liaisons. RRT members guide communication and recognition of the recipients of Core Value forms, using methods like peer messengers, awarding Aggie Core Value Coins and other means to celebrate the exemplary behaviors of Core Value form recipients. Liaisons certify the completion of each Core Value form and oversee the coordination of the CVAP. Then, the data is uploaded to the recipient’s Workday profile. Summary pulse reports are shared with Liaisons each month to celebrate their employees and elevate their exemplary stories to leadership.

Peer messengers deliver the message of a Core Value form for those recipients’ behaviors who have gone above and beyond their perceived job duties. By personally delivering the good news, trained peer messengers reinforce the appreciative nature of this process and the program.

The precedent program used the term “a cup of coffee” to signify these informal, peer conversations to bring awareness of observed behavior. We use the “cup of coffee” icon to signify sharing the good news of recognized exemplary behavior with the recipient.

Those that are interested in becoming a peer messenger should sign up for a training. Once peer messenger training is complete, you’re eligible to be called upon by a unit to recognize a peer who is the recipient of a Core Value form.

Core Value forms will be reviewed and masked (as appropriate) before ultimately being added to the Feedback section of the recipient’s Workday profile.  The Feedback section is viewable by any faculty or staff employed by Texas A&M University.  Our hope is that by making these exemplary behaviors visible, they will not only inspire a positive work environment bolstered by appreciative inquiry, but will also be considered by supervisors and leadership, alongside employee’s regular evaluation, for additional benefits such as award nominations, employee spotlights and evidence within performance evaluations of above and beyond behaviors. 

Core Value forms are only one piece of information about an employee and should not be considered a full evaluation of their performance. Additionally, Core Value forms do not concern behavior requiring action, such as Title VII, Title IX, policy violations, risk, fraud or misconduct, which are directed to pertinent Texas A&M and The Texas A&M University System unit/offices. In the unlikely event that accounts of concerning actions/behaviors appear in the Core Value Form portal, the Aggie Way Engagement Program has processes in place to refer information to the appropriate authority to handle such in accordance with applicable laws, policy, regulations, and rules.

Aggie Core Value Coins are to acknowledge and celebrate exemplary behaviors that exemplify an Aggie Core Value and enrich our culture. A coin may be earned through exemplifying a core value through a pattern of unique instances submitted by different submitters, or when the nature of an instance which rises to a level that the rapid response team and liaison of a unit believe is worthy of a coin. Ultimately, Aggie Core Value Coins are tokens of exemplifying the Aggie Way and elevating the stories about Aggies who are living out the Core Values.

Absolutely! An individual may earn one of each Aggie Core Value Coin within a three-year time frame. After the individual earns an Aggie Core Value Coin, they must wait three years to earn that same coin again.