Charting Your Course
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Charting Your Course

Lessons Learned During the Journey Toward Performance Excellence

  1. 177 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Charting Your Course

Lessons Learned During the Journey Toward Performance Excellence

About this book

Charting Your Course is the story of 2003 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award winner Community Consolidated School District 15 of Palatine, Illinois. The book shares the story of the school district's journey toward continuous improvement as they followed the Baldrige Award Criteria. The authors share both the good and the bad results encountered along the way, allowing the reader to learn from his experiences. The book will help other schools answer the many questions that will inevitably come up as they begin to follow the Baldrige criteria, and will help them avoid making some of the same mistakes. PRAISE FOR CHARTING YOUR COURSE "A case study of the only school district in the state of Illinois to earn the top quality award from the Lincoln Foundation for Business Excellence. Charting Your Course is must reading for superintendents and principals who are serious about achieving organizational excellence. In this straightforward account of a school district seriously embracing the Malcolm Baldrige criteria, the authors detail what worked and what went awry, and offer concrete suggestions on avoiding some of their mistakes."- Dr. Paul D. Houston, Executive Director American Association of School Administrators

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title page
  3. CIP data
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Foreword
  6. Preface: Casting Off
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. Chapter 1 Pursuing First-Rate Organizational Excellence: Is It Worth the Effort?
  9. Chapter 2 The America’s Cup Challenge: Why the Baldrige Criteria?
  10. Chapter 3 Plotting Your Course: Strategic Planning and Development
  11. Chapter 4 Precision Alignment: Aligning Your Goals to Achieve the Results You Want
  12. Chapter 5 Aids to Precision Navigation: Your Balanced Scorecard
  13. Chapter 6 Nautical Charts: Your Guide to Preserving the Best and Improving the Rest
  14. Chapter 7 Feedback: Reading the Tides and Currents
  15. Chapter 8 Reading Your Compass: Aligning Organizational Culture to Performance Improvement
  16. Chapter 9 Anchoring: The Holding Power of Continuous Improvement in the Classroom
  17. Chapter 10 Navigating the Future of Organizational Excellence: Developing and Sustaining the Continuous Improvement Culture
  18. Appendix A Category Champion Teams
  19. Appendix B About District 15: An Overview
  20. Nautical References
  21. Index