The Customer is Always Right: Insights into Customer Engagement — Oct 31 PEN Webinar

Having highly satisfied — highly engaged — customers doesn’t happen by accident: it is the result of well-designed processes, deliberate practice and deployment of those processes, and systematic evaluation and improvement so that customer-facing processes are continuously evolving and changing to meet customer expectations. The Performance Excellence Network — in partnership with the Wisconsin Center for [...]

2024-10-24T13:26:55-05:00October 21, 2024|

Best Practices in DEI Series — Module 5: “Building DEI Into Customer Facing Systems & Core Operations” — Sept 18 Online PEN Workshop

This module is the fifth of six in an ongoing Best Practices in DEI Series.  Each are intended to be stand-alone, or you can participate in the full series.  Dates and topics of other modules listed below. Over the last couple of years, we’ve all be made aware (or powerfully reminded) of the importance of [...]

2024-07-17T14:32:15-05:00July 17, 2024|

Igniting a Spark: 57 Insights from igniteEX 2024 – April 2024

It seems like it happens about this time every year (in reality, actually it does!): in partnership with our friends the Wisconsin Center for Performance Excellence and the Iowa Quality Center, PEN hosted another successful annual conference about 10 days ago, this year under the new moniker igniteEX (formerly PENworks). As I kicked off the [...]

2025-03-22T13:22:24-05:00April 29, 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|

Insights to Excellence: Exploring 6 Great Practices in 18 Minutes — Nov 16 PEN Webinar

Leaders are dealing with so many challenges these days: continued staffing pressures; continued economic constraints; changing technology (including AI); changing customer preferences, and many more.  Juggling all of these challenges is difficult, at best.  And some organizations are good at managing some of the challenges; others are good at managing others. The Performance Excellence Network [...]

2023-11-13T10:31:07-06:00November 4, 2023|
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