Continuing the Journey to Excellence: Advanced Baldrige Techniques — Apr 10 IN PERSON

The Performance Excellence Network — in partnership with the Wisconsin Center for Performance Excellence & the Iowa Quality Center — is pleased to announce a powerful workshop: Continuing the Journey to Excellence: Advanced Baldrige Techniques -- April 10 from 9AM-12PM.  The workshop will be hosted in person (Mystic Lake Conference Center in Prior Lake, MN) and is a pre-conference workshop to igniteEX 2025 conference. You can attend the workshop ala carte if you're not attending the conference (but a $50 discount for attending both!).  It will be facilitated by Dr. JoAnn Sternke, owner of Leader Excellence LLC (and former Superintendent of Pewaukee Schools) and Karen Kiel Rosser, VP and Chief Quality & Strategy Officer Mary Greeley Medical Center.  Both facilitators have been in senior leader roles with organizations that have received the prestigious Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, guiding their organizations for many years to achieve true world class performance levels.

The Baldrige Framework provides a systems perspective for continuous improvement and achieving performance excellence. It reflects the "leading edge of validated management practice," against which any organization or community can measure itself to identify and prioritize improvement opportunities.  This workshop is intended for leaders within organizations who are already familiar with and using Baldrige -- perhaps already have completed an assessment or two -- but are interested in sustaining or accelerating excellence efforts, broadening internal awareness and engagement, and achieving ever better results.

The workshop will focus on areas such as:

• How to build awareness, commitment, engagement of excellence throughout the organization
• Different ways to structure a Baldrige-based excellence effort -- how to organize teams, mobilize resources, set an organizational cadence for assessment and improvement
• How to interpret, analyze, and take action on Opportunities for Improvement (OFIs), prioritizing and focusing on key areas to improve
• How to maximize Return on Investment in using Baldrige, and how to integrate it with other useful improvement methods and tools
• How to navigate challenges, resistance, and "excellence fatigue"

The session is highly interactive and helps participants identify ways to improve the already good excellence approaches they have in place -- to give that proverbial "shot in the arm" for organizations and communities on the journey to excellence.

The session will be hosted at Mystic Lake Conference Center, Prior Lake, MN on April 10 from 9:00AM-12:00PM.  Lunch is included.

Investment is $250 for members ($500 for non-members).  $50 discount available for those also attending the igniteEX 2025 conference ($200). No group discounts available for this workshop, as space is limited and it WILL sell out!

Explore how to sustain or accelerate your journey to excellence!