Educational Workshops
AND CUSTOMIZED TRAINING
2008 Training registration form
All workshops will be held from 8:30am until 4:30pm unless otherwise indicated.
All one-day workshops-$250.00 per person
All two-day workshops-$500.00 per person
For Information and registration for the January 31, 2008 workshop "Innovation--Moustraps vs. iTunes"
click HERE.
HOW TO WRITE AN APPLICATION
This workshop provides your organization the opportunity to understand the Lincoln Award, the application process and the Baldrige Criteria. It also helps your organization get started on writing an application, with tips and examples on how to get the most out of the application. This workshop also reviews the award level system and the key role of examiners. This workshop is highly recommended for all first-time applicants.
Trainer: Margaret Dospiljulian
Joe Sener
January 24, 2008 or
February 20, 2008
Location: Tellabs, Inc., Naperville
Situational Leadership
This popular one day seminar is designed to improve employee performance and help leaders, both seasoned or new to the position, understand the demands that are being placed on them in today's business environment.
Topics covered:
Using various leadership styles & determining appropriate leadership style for best performance
Importance of matching leadership style to developmental level
Importance of leadership flexibility
Maximizing good performance
Skill of diagnosing competence & commitment
Methods to correct poor performance
Trainer: Paul Kuchuris
March 18, 2008
Location: Tellabs, Inc., Naperville
BALANCED SCORECARD FOR EXCELLENCE
Are you getting the results you want?
How do you begin with the end in mind?
Are you measuring the right things?
A Balanced Scorecard helps organizations examine and balance measures needed to drive improvement results and satisfy all stakeholders. Learn to identify these measures and link them back to your organization's improvement efforts.
Trainer: Margaret Dospiljulian
April 10, 2008
Location: Tellabs, Inc., Naperville
Lean thinking in education
Lean Tools for Performance Excellence will provide an introduction to lean tools and how lean can increase your performance excellence. The linkages between other tools will be discussed along with an understanding of how multiple tools can compliment each other. Lean in its simplest form means cost reduction and elimination of non-value added activities. This session is planned for the education sector. Examples provided will all be from education. This session is a must for administrators, principles, and assessment professionals. The program will demonstrate how using the proper lean tools can save you time and money as you implement your district and school goals.
Introduction of Lean as an overall performance excellence methodology with brief comparisons to other methods such as Six Sigma.
Overview of the 16 main building blocks of Lean, with an introduction of several building blocks such as streamlined layout, point of use storage, value stream mapping, Kaizen events, and poka yoke as they relate to education
Exercises to reinforce concepts, as well as provide you with a jump start to begin to put Lean into practice when you leave training.
Trainer: Margaret Dospiljulian
April 11, 2008
Location: Tellabs, Inc., Naperville
Lean thinking
The word lean means eliminating waste. This workshop focuses on lean concepts, essential principles, techniques, and ways to identify waste. Comparison will be made with other performance excellence tools along with a discussion on lean's applicability within your industry. Topics covered will also include: how to be more results oriented, overcoming objections to improvement, benefits of implementing lean, and how to reduce non-value added activities within your organization.
Trainer: Margaret Dospiljulian
April 29, 2008
Location: Champaign
CUSTOMIZED TRAINING
The Lincoln Foundation can also customize training specifically for your organization. Some of the programs your organization may want to hold at your location include:
Strategic Planning
Visionary Leadership
Managing & Accelerating Change
Communication Skills
Teamwork Skills
Problem Solving Skills
Valuing Workplace Diversity
Preventing Workplace Violence
Contact our Director of Training & Education, Debbie Hasse, at (630) 637-1595, ext. 1
or dhasse@lincolnaward.org to learn how these programs can be delivered to your staff
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTIONS
Situational Leadership
This popular one day seminar is designed to improve employee performance and help leaders, both seasoned or new to the position, understand the demands that are being placed on them in today's business environment.
Topics covered:
Using various leadership styles & determining appropriate leadership style for best performance
Importance of matching leadership style to developmental level
Importance of leadership flexibility
Maximizing good performance
Skill of diagnosing competence & commitment
Methods to correct poor performance
six sigma
A workshop that gives you the skills to improve processes in your work environment that have hindered your effectiveness and limited your productivity. Participants will be using the Define-Measure-Analyze-Improve-Control (DMAIC) Structure on their work problems.
Trainer: Carl Saunders/Six Sigma Black Belt
LEAN THINKING IN HEALTHCARE
This workshop focuses on Lean Concepts and Principles applied to the healthcare industry. It discusses the absolute elimination of waste, reduction of cycle time, eliminating defects and reducing costs.
Trainer: Margaret Dospiljulian
Download a Registration Form for the above workshops
BUSINESS: Through a cooperative effort with the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (DCEO), The Lincoln Foundation is offering employee training grants through DCEO's Emloyer Training Investment Program (ETIP). Under the rules of the program, training costs are split 50/50 between ETIP funds and an organization's payments to The Lincoln Foundation. Participants who qualify will receive a 50% rebate following the program and The Lincoln Foundation receipt of payment from DCEO.
EDUCATION: Limited grant funding is available for education organizations. Please contact The Foundation to see if your organization may qualify.