Principles of Excellence: Baldrige 101 & 201 

The need to improve your organization’s performance has perhaps never been greater.

This “new normal” we’ve been enjoying the last few years has created a renewed need for improvement and systemic change within all organizations: customers expect more, competent workers are growing scarce, and competition is intensifying. But – with the complexity of organizations – where does one start? How do you know on which processes to focus? And how to do you sustain the improvement over time?

The Wisconsin Center for Performance Excellence is pleased to announce a special — completely updated and improved — two-day workshop: Introduction to Excellence: Baldrige 101 and Moving from Interest to Action: Baldrige 201. The workshops, set for June 23-24 at the Concordia Center for Environmental Stewardship in Mequon, will be facilitated by Brett Remington, President and true blue rock star at  Blue Rock Wisconsin, a Waterford, WI -based consulting firm helping people and organizations perform better, faster.

The Baldrige Framework provides a systems perspective for continuous improvement and advancing performance excellence. The Baldrige “Criteria for Performance Excellence” reflects the leading edge of validated management practice, against which any organization can measure itself to identify and prioritize improvement opportunities. If you are interested in becoming a Wisconsin Forward Award Examiner, new Examiners are strongly urged to take Baldrige 101 as a prerequisite.

About Brett Remington
 For the past two decades, Brett Remington has worked with Wisconsin organizations to narrow the gap between their performance and their potential. He is President and true blue rock star at Blue Rock WI, a Waterford, Wisconsin-based consulting firm helping people and organizations perform better, faster through enterprise-based performance improvement methods.  Enterprise-based performance improvement considers all the factors that drive outcomes "because you simply cannot achieve meaingful and sustained improvement by optimizing individual parts of a complex system," notes Remington.

Brett is widely recognized for his expertise with the Baldrige Criteria for Performance Excellence. He has helped governent agencies, non-profits, manufacturers, business serivce firms, health care organizations, and educational institutions acheive and sustain distinguished performance outcomes. Brett holds a Master's Degree in Econometrics and Qualitative Economics from UW Milwaukee.

Registration
Space is limited.Cost for both days is $500 for WCPE members ($825 for non-members). For those attending in groups of three or four, apply code GROUP3OR4 to receive a $25 discount per person. For those attending in groups of five or more, apply code 5ORMORE to receive a discount of $50 per person. One copy of the Baldrige Framework book ($25 value) is included with each registrations, as are workshop materials and meals.