You just stepped into an elevator . . .
You just stepped into an elevator . . .
Posted by Dawn Marie Bailey at Blogrige, Baldige Perfomance Excellence Program
Ever think about what you would say if you just stepped into an elevator and someone asked you what the Baldrige Criteria for Performance Excellence were all about? And more specifically, why they should even care about Baldrige?
Here are the talking points that I would try to cover. Depending on how many floors we needed to travel, I might elaborate on one or all. Here’s what I would say:
“You ask, ‘Why is Baldrige a good investment of your time and money?’
With Baldrige, you can
• Create jobs
• Save lives
• Increase profits
• Improve outcomes for students or patients or your business.
The Baldrige enterprise can help you learn how:
• Baldrige is a way to improve.
• Baldrige is a way to compete.
• Baldrige is a way to enable your success.
• Baldrige is a way for you to turn difficult situations around in tough economic times.
Baldrige benefits you
• In aligning your work systems in order to concentrate on engaging employees and customers
• In aligning your processes in order to focus on effective operations, student learning, or patient safety.
• In aligning your entire organization for success in your marketplace
• In comparing your organization to role models across seven management categories.
You can take charge and accelerate your success with Baldrige: a proven, flexible framework; an improvement model and tool; and a repository of standards and industry best practices.”
What are your talking points for an elevator speech about Baldrige?
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