Creating a Culture of Kindness

“Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.” --Mark Twain 

The third Wednesday of March has been an extra special day for the last 14 years at Trinity Services —Kindness Day.

It’s a day when our employees show appreciation by sending handwritten notes of thanks and kindness to their coworkers throughout the agency including those in Peoria, DesPlaines and Mascoutah, IL, and Reno, NV. This year, on March 27, Trinity’s 1,100 employees sent more than 19,000 notes, which were delivered with more than 13,000 colorful carnations.

The idea behind Kindness Day was to create a day where gratitude for fellow coworkers’ efforts was the focus. The hope is that by recognizing and appreciating each other, we create a culture of kindness.

Our motto at Trinity Services, Inc., is “Everything Counts”—the work you do, the way you do it, the words you say…everything counts. Kindness Day is just one example of how we show appreciation for one another’s actions. It is a way to say “thank you” to someone for their hard work or for helping with a problem. In a large organization like Trinity, it can be something as simple as “thank you for remembering my name.”

Trinity employee Nancy Samardzic recalls one note she got this year, “One note I received appreciated the fact that I remembered someone’s name who I met during a training months ago. That small act of remembering someone’s name touched that person and it encouraged me to try to make sure to recall people’s names better.”

You never know how one small gesture or act of kindness can make someone feel.

Reading the kind words and smelling the beautiful flowers for days, helps our staff feel appreciated and act as motivators to spread kindness even beyond Trinity! We look forward to sharing and communicating kindness all year long.