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Wisconsin Forward Award
We help organizations and communities enhance performance, operational excellence, and sustainability that lead to great places to work and learn, improved outcomes and better quality of life in our state.
Wisconsin Center for Performance Excellence
The Wisconsin Center for Performance Excellence offers in-depth, low-cost assessments to organizations of all types and sizes. We're Wisconsin's partner to the national Baldrige Performance Excellence Program. Our feedback helps your organization to…
Our program equips you with the structure and knowledge to consistently exceed customer expectations, ensuring satisfaction and loyalty.
We help you align your organization’s goals and strategies for more focused, efficient decision-making that drives success.
By identifying and optimizing your organization's core strengths, we empower you to enhance performance and stay competitive.
Our program provides the tools to engage and develop a motivated, high-performing workforce, driving productivity and innovation.
We offer proven frameworks and assessments to help you continuously improve processes and outcomes, leading to sustainable success.
Gain access to a broad network for sharing best practices and benchmarking your performance against excellence-minded peers.
Unlock Your Organization's Full Potential
The Baldrige Excellence Framework is more than just a set of guidelines—it’s a comprehensive approach to improving organizational performance. By aligning leadership, strategy, customers, workforce, and operations, this framework empowers organizations of all sizes to achieve excellence. Use it to assess strengths, identify areas for improvement, and drive meaningful, sustainable results. Start your journey toward enhanced productivity, effectiveness, and lasting success today.
Learn, Engage, and Improve with Expert Guidance
The Wisconsin Center for Performance Excellence and our partners host free or low-cost workshops, webinars, best practice conferences, and training in performance improvement techniques. Join us.
Gain energy and ideas from leaders, professionals and excellence-minded organizations. Our partners are ready to engage with you to optimize your organization and its impact.
Self assessment is often a logical starting point. We offer a number of assessment options for your organization or community. In conjunction with the Alliance for Performance Excellence, we offer a high-level diagnostic tool that can help you gauge the impact of your improvement efforts.
Join the Wisconsin Forward Award Board of Examiners and empower yourself to use the Criteria for Performance Excellence wherever you work or serve.
The foundation of our program, the Wisconsin Forward Award, is the process we use to evaluate organizations against the Baldrige Criteria, provide feedback that can be used for continuous improvement, and celebrate organizational accomplishments.
Best practice sharing and benchmarking is a cornerstone of the Wisconsin Center for Performance Excellence. Our network spans the state, nation, and the world.
Our e-newsletter, The Excellence Insider, is distributed regularly via e-mail. It is a convenient way to stay connected with us, our partners, and our growing network.
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Our e-newsletter, The Excellence Insider is distributed regularly via e-mail. It is a convenient to stay connected with us, our partners and our growing network.
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