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Being a member of the SPQA Board of Examiners is a tremendous learning experience. Examiners learn about and apply the Baldrige Criteria and Framework in their role as a SPQA examiner. “You meet a lot of outstanding individuals as examiners and applicants; the examiner training is considered one of the best leadership courses in the…

2020 Quest for Excellence – March 24-27, National Harbor, MD

The deadline for submitting an Intent to Apply for the 2020 Award program has passed. Our next Award cycle begins Sept 2020. If you would like to have a discussion about this, please contact us. If you would like to join our mailing list and stay informed about training events and other news relevant to…

  Applying for Baldrige isn’t a contest, and it’s not for recognition or accolades. It’s an opportunity to assess our current state and receive the feedback we need to feed our culture of continuous improvement. -CEO, United Network for Organ Sharing, Brian Shepard, a 2019 Baldrige Fellow.

J.R. Caskey Site Development – 2nd Cohort, 2017 When we were invited to participate in the SPQA ‘OTW’ program, I honestly had never heard of it before.  I was honored to be chosen as one of six small businesses in the state of Virginia.  I was intrigued by the unknown and always up for a…

National Security and Door Corp. – 2nd Cohort, 2017 National Security & Door participated in the One’s To Watch Program that ran in 2017/2018. We are about a year removed from a hands-on active program participation. The techniques and methods presented in Baldrige for building a better business operation were excellent in nature. The task…

Quoted from a 2019 email – Going through the Baldrige Criteria challenged us to think about our company in ways that we had not considered.  We had to remove ourselves from the company and look at it from a different perspective.  This was both painful and rewarding. When we had to describe exactly how we…