EVENTS CALENDAR
The 36th Quest for Excellence® Conference
Join us at the Quest for Excellence 2025! We are excited to bring the Baldrige community together to celebrate and learn from the 2024 Baldrige Award recipients, who will be announced this Fall!.
Learn best performance management practices directly from Baldrige Award recipients and how to:
- improve your organization’s performance results
- enhance leadership effectiveness
- build customer, patient, student and employee and staff engagement
- increase organizational innovation to gain and sustain competitive advantages
- improve process management
- create an environment that fosters social responsibility and ethical behavior
- increase organizational resilience and sustainability
Events
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Webinars
Third Thursday Webinars
Dec 19, 2024 Webinar
Date: December 19, 202419Dec
Topic: "What can Alliance Programs Do for You?"
Details: - EVENT - Laura Kinney, Board Chair for Partners in Performance Excellence, a member of The Alliance for Performance Excellence Board and marketing chair.
With the National Baldrige Award Program transformation using a subset of the Baldrige criteria starting in 2024 and beyond, the goal of this webinar is to shed light on how Alliance programs, leveraging the full Baldrige Excellence Framework, can help build high-performing leaders, organizations and communities. This discussion will provide valuable insights into how this network of programs across the U.S. supports and educates individuals and organizations to understand and utilize the Framework for organizational and personal improvement.
Laura Kinney is Board Chair for Partners in Performance Excellence, a member of The Alliance for Performance Excellence (Alliance) Board and marketing chair for the Alliance. With over 20 years of experience in strategy, process improvement, and organizational performance, she is passionate about helping organizations and communities improve and mature through customized frameworks based on the Baldrige Framework for Performance Excellence and Communities of Excellence Framework. As the President and CCO (Chief Cheerleading Officer!) of Performance Excellence Mentor, she works with leaders to create infrastructure to fundamentally plan and operate with innovative best practices.
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Nov 21, 2024 Webinar
Date: November 21, 202421Nov
Topic: "Core Competencies to Drive Customer Value and Inspire the Workforce"
Details: - PAST EVENT - Daniel Edds has been a Baldridge examiner and team leader. This experience led him to write the book, Leveraging the Genetics of Leadership, Cracking the code of sustainable team performance.
In our Baldridge Community, we think of core competencies as our organization’s areas of greatest expertise; ...that are central to fulfilling our mission and create our singular strategic advantage. Discover the four central attributes that every core competency must have to drive customer value and create a dynamic employee experience.
Daniel Edds has been a Baldridge examiner and team leader. This experience led him to write the book, Leveraging the Genetics of Leadership, Cracking the code of sustainable team performance. This is the first book that bridges the gap between systems thinking and organizational leadership. He has recently presented his work on systemic leadership and culture formation in England, Saudia Arabia, and the UAE. In addition, he is a PhD candidate through the Birmingham Leadership Institute at the University of Birmingham (UK).
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Oct 17, 2024 Webinar
Date: October 17, 202417Oct
Topic: "90-Day Teams to Deploy Action Plans"
Details: - PAST EVENT - Denise Kaetzel, Director of Organizational Excellence and Quality with 2018 Baldrige recipient Memorial Hospital and Health Care Center in Jasper, IN, presents 90-Day Teams to Deploy Action Plans.
In the Baldrige Framework, Category 6 asks how you design, manage, and improve your key services and work processes. 2018 Baldrige recipient Memorial Hospital and Health Care Center (MHHCC) adopted and ‘memorialized’ the 90-day team methodology from Hill Country Memorial Hospital. It is a 10-step methodology, utilizing PDCAE (plan, do, check, act, evaluate) that describes how MHHCC carries out the action plans of their strategic plan and how they design new services. Denise Kaetzel will share how this methodology describes the 90-day team that comes together and uses these defined steps to produce results.
Leading with compassion and respect for all, Denise Kaetzel encourages and expects team members to commit to quality and excellence. She is passionate about personal and professional growth through continuous learning, excellent patient and organizational outcomes, and performance improvement. Denise is committed to the mission, vision, and core values of Memorial Hospital and is grateful to serve in a faith-based organization. Denise has over 34 years of healthcare and nursing experience, the majority of which is in leadership positions. She has led the Quality Department since 2007 and added Organizational Excellence to her scope in April 2019. Denise earned a Master of Science in Nursing Leadership in 2008, and a Masters in Health Administration in 2017 and is certified in Executive Nursing.
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Sep 19, 2024 Webinar
Date: September 19, 202419Sep
Topic: "Stephanie Norling, Executive Director of Communities of Excellence 2026, will present an update on Communities of Excellence."
Details: - PAST EVENT - Stephanie Norling, President and CEO of Communities of Excellence 2026, will give a progress update on these communities and their performance excellence journeys and will describe how these experiences have led to an ambitious new strategy. Click Here to register for the webinar.
Beginning in October 2016, leaders across the country have joined the Communities of Excellence (COE) National Learning Collaborative with the goal of using the Baldrige-based COE Framework to support their communities in identifying and measuring key initiatives to address community health and wellbeing.
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Workshops
WORKSHOPS
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OverviewJoin us for TPE's 2025 Baldrige Champion Collaboration starting this January. It's the perfect opportunity to network, learn, and share with fellow changemakers in the TPE community. Let's make a difference together! Mark your calendars and be part of something special.
Dates: Starting in January, 2025
Monthly 90 minute sessions
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Baldrige National Events
30MAR2025 National Baldridge Conference
2025 National Quest for Excellence
Quest is the leading conference nationwide to learn best performance management practices directly from Baldrige Award recipients and how to:
- improve your organization’s performance results
- enhance leadership effectiveness
- build customer, patient, student and employee and staff engagement
- increase organizational innovation to gain and sustain competitive advantages
- improve process management
- create an environment that fosters social responsibility and ethical behavior
- increase organizational resilience and sustainability
INFORMATION
Visit the official Baldrige Conference website for this upcoming event.
The 35th Quest for Excellence National Conference
LOCATION
Baltimore Marriott Waterfront
700 Aliceanna Street,
Baltimore, MD 21202
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TPE Events
QUEST FOR SUCCESS - 2024 (CONCLUDED)
9SEP2024 Quest for Success Conference - CONCLUDED
Become Resilient. Adapt. Innovate. Thrive.
2024
A premier conference for organizational leaders and performance excellence professionals. Join us for an insightful and educational pre-conference workshop and full-day conference and be inspired by organizations on the Baldrige journey.
September 9, 2024 Pre-conference Workshop & Awards Banquet
September 10, 2024 Full Day Conference 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. The Ohio State University Fawcett Center Columbus, Ohio
Join us to recognize The Partnership for Excellence’s 2024 Award Recipients at an Awards Banquet on September 9th at 6:00 p.m. ET. Celebrate their performance excellence journeys and be inspired by their progress & persistence.
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