Wisconsin Forward Award
Intent to Apply Forms
Accepted through May 15
Applying for a Wisconsin Forward Award sets your organization apart from the crowd, and helps get your organization better, faster. Whether returning as an applicant or just beginning your involvement with the WFA/Baldrige Criteria, the knowledge and insight you gain will help your organization improve efficiency, engage and satisfy customers, stakeholders and staff. Think of it as a low cost, high impact consulting service
Take the first step! Intent to Apply applications are being accepted now through May 15, 2015. For more information on the Wisconsin Forward Award application process, and our application pathways, visit our website.
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Summer Cycle Board of Examiners Applications due May 30
Are you interested in learning more about what makes organizations successful? Are you interested in helping other organizations-such as schools, hospitals, non-profits, and businesses-around the state improve their performance? Would you be interested in networking, learning, and sharing with others who feel the same way?
 Then apply today to join the WFA Board of Examiners! Applications for the 2015 summer cycle must be received by May 30, 2015. For more detailed information, or to submit an online application, please visit our Examiner page.
All examiners take part in training to learn how to assess the companies and organizations that apply to the Wisconsin Forward Award program. They learn how to use the Baldrige Excellence Framework (which includes the Criteria for Performance Excellence), score applicant organizations, conduct the examination process, and prepare value-added feedback. Businesses and organizations also benefit when they have a Wisconsin Forward Award examiner on staff. Examiner training empowers employees to apply the Criteria at their own jobs, improving processes and results along the way.
- Training in the internationally acclaimed Baldrige Excellence Framework,
- Networking and benchmarking opportunities,
- Hands-on experience that will add tremendous value to your own organization,
- A chance to contribute to Wisconsin's economic well-being
- Exposure to proven best practices in leadership, strategic planning, and more,
- A "resume booster"
- A free ticket to the annual Wisconsin Forward Awards Gala on December 10
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Baldrige Criteria "Deep Dive" Seminar with Dr. Mark Blazey June 23 & 24 in Black River Falls
 Newly and substantially revised for 2015! Called the single most influential document in the modern history of American business, the revised Criteria for Performance Excellence can help you optimize your organization's potential and achieve results that matter to you-and your customers!
The real value of an assessment is its ability to improve performance -- to improve outcomes and drive tangible organizational results. And a few studies have proven the value of an assessment and systemic management framework.
For more information and to register for this seminar, visit our website!
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Last Call!
Leadership, Reflection, and Change Workshop with Dan Oestreich May 6 in Madison
Join us to hear Dan Oestreich, leadership consultant, coach, trainer, and facilitator, share transitional methods toward a bright future. This insightful workshop includes:
- How to move from fear to trust-based leadership
- How to accelerate your own unique path of personal development as a leader, mentor, and guide
- How to apply the nature of your personal growth to initiate and lead organizational change
Overview of the Leadership, Reflection, and Change Workshop
For more information about the workshop and to register, visit our website.
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WFA Examiner Spotlight: Susan Peiffer
Susan Peiffer, Performance Improvement Specialist, Hospital Sisters Health System Western Wisconsin Division, is well known in WFA circles. She has served on the Board of Examiners since 2007, and has co-written two WFA and four Baldrige applications on behalf of her employer.
Sue wanted to know more about the Baldrige process to help her organization adopt the Baldrige framework. She notes, "My motivation quickly went from internal to external, as found I could help us as I help others (and it doesn't get much better than that!)."
When Sue is not evaluating or writing an application, she can be found working with the ASQ Healthcare Division and local Free Clinic, gardening, exercising, and travelling. Lest you think Sue keeps her nose buried in the Criteria, she is a skydiving enthusiast.
To readers who are weighing the decision to become an examiner, Sue offers this encouragement:
"Just do it! It is a lot of work but the process gets easier and you get better every year and will meet like-minded, amazing people along the way!"
Sue, we think you and HSHS (home to one of our 2014 WFA Excellence recipients, St. Joseph's Hospital - Chippewa Falls) are pretty amazing too!
Interested in learning more about being an examiner or WFA's application pathways? Contact us at 608-663-5300 or info@wisquality.org.
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