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LEARNING FOR ORGANIZATIONS, BIG & SMALL

As a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, one of PENW's core missions is the education and training of leaders and workforce members to better understand and implement performance excellence principles in daily work. To that end, we offer three types of learning across our offerings to better match the learners needs. Everyone learns a bit differently so it's important to have options.

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Traditional, In-person

Interact freely with others, build social connections, flexible to easily adapt to most any learning style

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Virtual, On-line

Scheduling flexibility, ideal for the busiest schedules, best option if you are concerned about your health or others

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Blended & Hybrid

Combines the best of both learning environments, learner has more choice of between traditional and on-line modalities

 

OUR LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES

DEDICATION. EXPERTISE. PASSION.

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Advancing Excellence

Based on a Masters-level college course, Advancing Excellence is designed to develop your own internal performance excellence subject matter expert. If you are looking to take your internal PE knolwedge to the next level, this course was built for you.

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Baldrige Executive Fellow

A ten-month immersion program designed for leaders and managers using nationally recognized best practices. It includes coaching support for a strategic project to apply learning in daily work and begins with a site visit to a national Baldrige recipient organization.

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Examiner Training & Examiner Experience

Join an elite team of leaders who are highly specialized in understanding, assessing and providing value-added feedback to others along their journey. Described as "career game changing" for many; like getting your Mini MBA.

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Lean Six Sigma

Through a strategic partnership, PENW is excited to offer world-class training to support your organization's efforts to improve processes, reduce waste and simplify the complexity of work. Courses for every level of learner; Lean Practitioner to Black Belt.

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PENW Annual Learning Symposium

PENW convenes practitioners and learners to share best practices and learning from their performance excellence implementation inside their organizations. Successes and failures. 

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Presentations

To help organizations and leaders get started, we offer short presentations and discussions on a wide variety of performance excellence topics at no or low cost. Monthly topics on a variety of foundational and emerging topics.

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Webinars

To help organizations and leaders get started, we offer FREE webinars and discussions on a wide variety of performance excellence topics. Monthly we offer a national webinar with our Alliance Members. Majority of these offerings are FREE!

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YouTube Videos - Illuminating Excellence

Click here to review our Illuminating Excellence video series. This series of short clips will walk you through several basic Performance Excellence concepts. It's a great place to start your learning journey "on-demand".

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Learn. Perform. Excel.

We are everything Performance Excellence!

Contact us if you need any assistance

laura@performanceexcellencenw.org

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