• Continuous Improvement
     
    District Department Staff
    Continuous Improvement
    Suggested Professional Learning Sequence

    ORIENTATION/ AWARENESS

    Orientation to Performance Excellence
    This training provides an introduction to the Criteria for Performance Excellence and is the prerequisite for other more in-depth sessions. It is an essential first step to the continuous improvement journey.

    • Identify strategies and techniques for getting started using the Criteria for High Performance
    • Focus on the relationships required for success form key stakeholder groups
    • Identify the principles of organizational change
    • Provide a framework for using an entry-level assessment instrument to determine organizational effectiveness

      Prerequisites: None
      Length of Workshop: 2 days

     

    STRATEGIC/
    OPERATIONAL
    PLANNING

    Planning for Performance Excellence: A Systems Approach to Department Improvement Planning
    A trained consultant will meet with key leaders from your department to collaboratively work on department-level improvement planning.

    • Develop strategic goals, measures and indicators that will set direction for the department.
    • Develop an improvement plan for the department

      Prerequisites: Orientation to Performance Excellence
      Length of Workshop: 2 days
    DEPLOYMENT COMPONENTS

    Leading for Performance Excellence Part I: A Focus on Application and Deployment
    This workshop focuses on the management and improvement of leadership systems to support performance excellence. Leaders will learn about the systems components needed to build a high performing school, department or district. Time is provided to work on the district, department or school quality implementation and training deployment plan.

    • Understand the leader's roles and responsibilities for leading integrated management systems to achieve performance excellence
    • Learn to support effective work teams. All participants will develop a plan for leading a multi-level process improvement initiative.

      Prerequisites: Orientation to Performance Excellence, Planning for Performance Excellence
      Length of Workshop: 2 days

    Tools and Techniques for Performance Excellence
    Tools and Techniques training helps to support the on-going improvement efforts of process improvement efforts and introduces participants to the use of a PDSA (Plan, Do, Study, Act) process improvement approach.

    • This training introduces department staff to quality improvement techniques and tools for use with process improvement teams.
    • Participants learn how to choose the quality tool that is most appropriate for a variety of analysis, problem solving and decision-making purposes.

      Prerequisites:      Orientation to Performance Excellence Length of Workshop: 1 day

    Leading for Performance Excellence Part I: A Focus on Application and Deployment
    This workshop focuses on the management and improvement of leadership systems to support performance excellence. Leaders will learn about the systems components needed to build a high performing school, department or district. Time is provided to work on the district, department or school quality implementation and training deployment plan.

    • Understand the leader's roles and responsibilities for leading integrated management systems to achieve performance excellence
    • Learn to support effective work teams. All participants will develop a plan for leading a multi-level process improvement initiative.

      Prerequisites: Orientation to Performance Excellence, Planning for Performance Excellence
      Length of Workshop: 2 days
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    Tools and Techniques for Performance Excellence
    Tools and Techniques training helps to support the on-going improvement efforts of process improvement efforts and introduces participants to the use of a PDSA (Plan, Do, Study, Act) process improvement approach.

    • This training introduces department staff to quality improvement techniques and tools for use with process improvement teams.
    • Participants learn how to choose the quality tool that is most appropriate for a variety of analysis, problem solving and decision-making purposes.

      Prerequisites:      Orientation to Performance Excellence
      Length of Workshop: 1 day