U.S. Senate Productivity and Quality Award
for Virginia and DC
Our Mission
The mission of SPQA is to promote continual improvement strategies and to provide training, mentoring, and recognition to organizations in pursuit of performance excellence. SPQA is charged with administering the U.S. Senate Productivity and Quality Award recognizing the highest caliber of performance excellence.
Our Work
SPQA fulfills its mission through the Award program and other lower-tier and mentoring programs. We provide Award applicants a comprehensive, low-cost organizational performance evaluation and an extensive feedback report. We train individuals to become experts at assessing and evaluating an entire organization based on the Baldrige Performance Excellence Framework and Criteria, and we conduct Baldrige-based workshops.
Our Story
Since 1982, SPQA has served organizations of all sizes from all sectors, and honored over 80 organizations with the prestigious Medallion Award in recognition of their achievement of performance excellence. We have trained hundreds of Examiners in the Baldrige criteria and methodologies to serve our Awards program and to support their own organization’s journey to performance excellence.
Ones to Watch is our program that focuses on small businesses. It is a partnership between SPQA and the Commonwealth of Virginia, and provides training, mentoring and resources to identified small businesses.
Featured Content
Pre-conf. Workshops at the Baldrige Fall Conf., Oct. 24-25, in Nashville
The Baldrige Fall conference features three very strong pre-conference workshops. Summaries below, more detail on the Program Agenda. Registration is now open. Led by by David McClaskey, President and Cofounder, and David Jones, VP, of Pal’s Business Excellence Institute (a past national award recipient), which trains thousands of leaders from all over the world in…
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Recognition Reception, Social, and Networking Event
October 30, 2019. We will be honoring SPQA Award recipients, Discovery program participants, Ones to Watch program participants, and our volunteer Board of Examiners, without whom our work would not be accomplished. We are casting the net widely to pull together all who have been involved in and supported SPQA from prior years. Please join…
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Baldrige 101 Criteria and Framework Training — September 20, 2019
Register now to ensure your seat. Registration deadline is September 06, 2019. In this Introductory course, SPQA teaches you how to use the Baldrige Framework and Criteria to better understand your organization and help it achieve long-term success. Are you a process improvement professional or an organizational leader in search of structures and processes that…
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