(Arizona Quality Alliance: Scottsdale, AZ) -- The Arizona Quality Alliance is offering a one-day workshop, “Baldrige Green: Self Assessment for Corporate Sustainability,” on Dec. 10.
Corporate sustainability planning has risen in prominence over the past few years among leading organizations as a tool to achieve strategic dominance within the global marketplace. Corporate sustainability planning builds on the organization’s core values, and can provide direction and rationale for the integration of sustainability principles among employees, vendors, and customers.
Benefits of a corporate sustainability assessment for participants:
• Increase revenue
• Reduce costs
• Enhance your organization’s brand, reputation, and market value
• Attract and retain the best employees
• Mitigate regulatory and business risks
• Leverage the triple bottom line for the organization
In this highly interactive one-day workshop participants will learn to:
• Use the Baldrige Criteria to identify an organization’s corporate sustainability and social responsibility issues
• Conduct an in-house corporate sustainability self-assessment
• Identify key economic, environmental, and social issues that affect an organization’s corporate sustainability
• Develop a Baldrige-based corporate sustainability plan incorporating the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Index
Date: Thursday, Dec. 10
Time: 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. MST
Cost: $199 for Arizona Quality Alliance members and $249 for nonmembers
Location:
University of Phoenix
4605 E. Elwood St., 2nd Floor
Shaffer Conference Center
Phoenix, AZ 85040
Instructor: Donald C. Fisher, Ph.D., executive director/CEO of Mid-South Quality/Productivity Center has presented Malcolm Baldrige Quality Award Criteria internationally to Hitachi Ltd. in Japan, to the Center for Productivity in Maracaibo, Venezuela, and to international suppliers in London. He worked with the Federal Express Corp. in Dubai on their Baldrige application for the Dubai Quality Award. Fisher is a multiyear veteran of the Board of Examiners for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award and has judged quality performance based on Baldrige Criteria for more than 170 organizations worldwide.
The Arizona Quality Alliance (AQA) provides the information and opportunities necessary to help organizations succeed—both financially and operationally. AQA provides a cooperative atmosphere for organizations in Arizona to excel in performance excellence and total quality management principles. AQA addresses the very issues of efficiency, productivity, and effectiveness through the Arizona Performance Excellence Program, networking opportunities, informational workshops, conferences, seminars, and training.
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