The California Council for Excellence is offering two upcoming events for quality professionals. The organization will host a two-day workshop in Rancho Bernardo, California, entitled, “Applying the Baldrige Criteria in Your Organization.” The event, to be held Dec. 5–6, will feature Karen Trisko, the former chair of the California Awards for Performance Excellence Council. The interactive workshop will teach attendees how to evaluate their organizations relative to the 2005 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award criteria, and assessment implementation strategies to improve performance organizationwide. Attendees will also be able take the 2005 Internal Assessor Certification Course.

The CCE will also offer a workshop on Dec. 9 to demonstrate how to compile successful applications for the California Award for Performance Excellence (CAPE). It will be held from 8 a.m. to noon at the Santa Clara Valley Water District office in San Jose, Calif. Tom Hinton, president and CEO of the CCE will be the facilitator. Topics to be discussed include selecting your application team, how to assign category champions, successful application-writing techniques, keys to linking categories and items, and common application pitfalls.

For more information, visit www.calexcellence.org.

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