2008 Conferences on Performance Excellence

April 22-25 "Quest for Excellence XX" the official conference of the Malcolm National Quality Award featuring presentations from all the 2007 national award recipients. National award recipients include: PRO-TEC Coating, Sharp Healthcare (a former client of mine), Mercy Health System, City of Coral Springs FL, and US Army Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center. Visit this website for details: http://www.quality.nist.gov/Quest_for_Excellence.htm

Sept. 15-16 Baldrige Regional Conference and CPEx (Colorado Performance Excellence) Conference. Co-sponsored by our national and Colorado Baldrige organizations, this event will also feature national award recipients and Colorado award program recipients.

Performance Excellence Webinars

Any organization that is serious about improving through performance excellence techniques needs to master many essential competencies. Yet not everyone likes to devote full days from their schedule to attend a workshop. Here is an alternative -- 60-minute web- and phone-based seminars to speed your acquisition of current knowledge of performance excellence. Recent offerings have included:

Continuous Improvement 101: Fundamentals of process management and improvement. For managers, improvement coordinators, and new process owners.

Maximize and Sustain Improvements: Why and how to utilize process owners and a process excellence rating system. For managers, improvement coordinators, and process owners.

Strategy-Driven Improvement: How improvement initiatives should help achieve long-term strategic goals. For executives and process improvement managers.

Click here to read more about these and other offerings. These and other custom webinars can be scheduled for your company, group, or association. Call Karen Trisko at 951.894.6748 or 303.681.3819 to discuss your needs. Or send email.


Baldrige for Beginners Webinar
Nov. 3 and 10, 2008. Two 2-hour webinars to learn the Baldrige Criteria, scoring methods, and best practice examples from national award recipients. Click here or call the host organization, CCE (California Council for Excellence) 858.486.0400 for registration information.
(Link takes you away from the Leading Excellence website.)


Baldrige Internal Assessor Training Workshop

June 17-18, 2008 in Sacramento, CA. Two-day workshop for certification to conduct internal Baldrige assessments for those who want to learn to use the Criteria and scoring methods, but do not want to attend Examiner training and serve on an examiner team. 

Karen Trisko, Facilitator
Call the host organization CCE to register 858.486.0400 or
Click here (Link takes you away from the Leading Excellence website.)


For further information, contact:
Leading Excellence
Phone: 951.894.6748 and 303.681.3819
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