District Department Staff
Continuous Improvement
Suggested Professional Learning Sequence


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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

Please Email Margaret Miller or
call (817) 547-5811
with questions.




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