Maryland Performance Awards

A lot of hard work came to fruition and provided a great experience! Fran Scher served on the 2008 Board of Examiners team for the Maryland Performance Excellence Awards.

This program requires the team to utilize the Baldrige Criteria to evaluate an organization's business excellence. After much analysis of their candidate organization, they created a scorebook and conducted a site visit. The applicant that they evaluated won the Senate Productivity Award for 2008. Fran's topic was workforce excellence. She focused on evaluating the applicant's workforce engagement (workforce enrichment; workforce and leader development), workforce environment (worforce capability and capacity and workforce climate), and workforce-focused outcomes. Here's Fran, Senator Benjamin Cardin, and her fellow Examiner teammates.
For more information about the program, visit the MPEA Examiner site.

Going Global!

What do Italy, Spain, Jacarta, El Salvador, Washington, Chicago, and Wisconsin have in common? These were some of the locations of the participants for our online program that took place Monday and Tuesday of last week. The purpose of the program, on behalf of our client APICS (The Association for Operations Management), was to validate the outline, objectives, and content for a new series of instructor-led workshops. We worked with international supply chain expert Dave Jankowski, providing the instructional design for Dave's content.

We virtually walked through one of the workshops (in a series of five) about how businesses go about doing international sourcing. Our audience was made up of other subject matter experts and trainers from around the world. They gave us great (and very positive!) feedback on the program.

This series, and the design of the international workshops we created for the Council of Residential Specialists and TRO, offers some very nice business curricula. We really enjoy international audiences. I guess all of that travel and living outside of the U.S. has come in handy. And adding the virutal classroom to the mix sure beats having to fly in for programs.