Cool Tools: Exploring 20 Contemporaneous Continuous Improvement Tools — October 2024

“If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail,” so the saying goes.  In other words, each tool -- be it for carpentry, cooking, or process improvement -- has a distinct purpose.  And tools are sub-optimized if they are used for anything other than that distinct purpose – imagine trying to loosen [...]

2024-10-21T13:05:23-05:00October 21, 2024|

Cool Tools: Exploring Continuous Improvement Tools — Oct 17 PEN Webinar

With any project -- home improvement, automobile repair, even exercising and working out -- you need the right tools to do the job right.  The same is true for process and organizational improvement!  We all need proven tools to understand the current state, explore solutions and improvements, and design and implement a desired future state. [...]

2024-10-07T18:54:33-05:00September 23, 2024|

The Key to Sustained World Class Performance: Deliberate Practice — PEN June 2024

Everywhere you look, standards are rising.  In business, in sports, in education, in healthcare – really in all aspects of human and organizational achievement – what is considered "world class" continues to increase.  For example… It used to take 72 hours by plane to cross the Atlantic (1913); it now takes just over six.  The [...]

2024-06-24T09:00:43-05:00June 24, 2024|

Advancing Performance Excellence: Baldrige 201 — Sept 12 & 19 Online Workshop

The Performance Excellence Network — in partnership with the Wisconsin Center for Performance Excellence and the Iowa Quality Center — is pleased to announce a powerful online workshop: Advancing Performance Excellence: Baldrige 201, September 12 (morning) & 19 (afternoon). Baldrige 201 builds off of Baldrige 101 (Principles of Performance Excellence (which is offered many times [...]

2024-06-03T09:41:38-05:00June 3, 2024|

Insights from igniteEX: A Prequel — March 7 PEN Webinar

In many ways, what's required for organizational excellence these days has changed: there are new work environments (such as hybrid), severe talent shortages, emerging technologies (like artificial intelligence).  But in other ways, nothing has changed: we still need to satisfy our customers; we still need to engage our teams; and we still need to improve [...]

2024-02-21T13:33:15-06:00February 21, 2024|

The LEGO Game: Reducing Waste & Increasing Productivity — April 18 IN-PERSON Pre-Conference Workshop

As we emerge from COVID (but navigate continuing staffing challenges and possible economic headwinds), organizations are increasingly focused on improving productivity, eliminating waste, and increasing efficiency. The Performance Excellence Network -- in partnership with the Wisconsin Center for Performance Excellence and the Iowa Quality Center — is pleased to announce a powerful workshop: The LEGO Game: Reducing Waste & [...]

2024-02-18T11:29:38-06:00February 17, 2024|

Create a Culture of Productivity, Starting at the Top! — April 18 IN-PERSON Pre-Conference Workshop

Create a culture of productivity that eliminates unnecessary interruptions, emails, and non-essential work! Get everyone in your company focused on their most important priorities and stop the highly reactionary behavior that has become the norm in business today. Since productivity and employee engagement are tightly linked, this is a win-win for the organization and your [...]

2024-02-17T11:25:53-06:00February 17, 2024|

Advancing Performance Excellence: Baldrige 201 — Nov 14 & 17 Online Workshop

The Performance Excellence Network — in partnership with the Wisconsin Center for Performance Excellence — is pleased to announce a powerful workshop: Advancing Performance Excellence: Baldrige 201, November 14 & 17 -- both 8:00AM to 12:00PM both online. Baldrige 201 builds off of Baldrige 101 (Principles of Performance Excellence (which is offered many times a year, [...]

2023-09-18T07:16:47-05:00September 18, 2023|

Championing Improvement at St. Louis County — Feb 15 TPPEN Breakfast

Do the words "continuous improvement" make you feel stressed or excited.  Or do they result in an eye roll?   The Performance Excellence Network is pleased to welcome Juli Lattner, Sr. HR Advisor, and Bre Graber, Budget & Business Improvement Manager, both from St. Louis County, to our February 15 TPPEN breakfast discussion: " Championing [...]

2023-07-26T00:51:08-05:00July 26, 2023|
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