2018 Quality Texas Foundation Training
2018 Training Opportunities Available
If you are interested in any of the Quality Texas Foundation training events, please make sure you register now.
You can register for all of the offered training sessions at once on the registration page! We hope to see you there!
Pre-Examiner Training
This seminar is designed for individuals that are new to using the Baldrige Framework. The participant will receive a slow walk through the criteria, hands on experience of evaluating the criteria and questions, and answers as to how to use the criteria in their organizational and personal lives.
Regular Examiner Training
This training is designed as an introduction or refresher for participants in how to use the Baldrige criteria. There is a requirement to accomplish some light homework prior to class. Additionally, if your organization is writing an application or considering writing an application, you should send around 5 -7 people to this training; WE teach the test! This class is continually changing based upon the latest information and training from the national program. Topics include leadership, strategic planning, customer service, information management, workforce focus, operational activities, and how to measure results.
Leadership Development Seminar
This seminar is designed for anyone who is in a leadership position from CEO/Superintendent level to aspiring leaders who are not yet in those leadership positions. This class contains the latest leadership information, generational differences, personality differences, working with difficult people, and 19 topics that can elevate your knowledge of leadership. It is based upon over 4,000 leadership books, case studies, YouTube videos, and much, much more. Topics include how to build trust, building teams through strong relationships, and delegation/empowerment. Both Leadership Development seminars conducted in 2016 had 100% participant satisfaction.
Strategic Planning Seminar
This training is designed to stretch the organization and fully understand the reason to complete strategic planning. Some of the latest material regarding how to conduct strategic planning will be reviewed along with specific definitions of strategic planning. It is recommended that each organization send 5 to 7 people who will be at the same table for the duration of the training. This training is unambiguously intended to maximize continuous improvements of the organization and individuals. Topics include a review of the culture, what is strategy, the importance of a dynamic vision, discussion of what we do now (mission), and how to determine the appropriate goals for the organization overall and down to subordinate elements. This seminar is highly interactive with opportunities to work with your group and improve current strategic planning activities.
Writing Seminars
The Quality Texas Foundation conducts writing seminars designed to save the organization time and money. It is also designed to help train and teach participants to complete an application in the shortest amount of time. We currently have 100% satisfaction where we have done this. This writing seminar can be done as a part of a retreat to greatly improve the organization in three areas: customer engagement, employee engagement and financial improvement and management.
Registration for the 2018 Training Sessions is now open.
Below is the full schedule of the Quality Texas Foundation trainings. Please begin registration by clicking on the link for whichever training you are interested in. The link will take you to a main registration site for initial registration and then it will allow you to choose, register, and pay for any training which you are interested in attending.
The cost of each training is $650. If 10 members from the same organization attend, the price is $550.
If you have any questions or need more information, please contact:
Dr. Mac McGuire by email at drmac@quality-texas.org or by phone at (512) 656-8946 or
Lin Wrinkle-McGuire at linwrinkle@quality-texas.org or by phone at (512) 818-3901
2018 Training Dates!
January – 2018
February – 2018
March – 2018
April – 2018
- April 10-12, 2018 – Cancelled
Leadership Development Seminar
Northeast Lakeview College – NLIB Room 211
San Antonio, Texas
May – 2018
- May 22-24, 2018, Pre-Examiner Training
Georgetown, Texas - May 29-31, 2018, Internal Organizational Improvement Coach (Examiner Training)
Tyler, Texas
June – 2018
- June 24-26, 2018 – 25th Annual Quest for Excellence Conference – Register Here!
Sheraton Georgetown Conference Center
1101 Woodlawn Ave
Georgetown, Texas
July – 2018
- July 11-13, 2018, Internal Organizational Improvement Coach (Examiner Training)
Plano, TX - July 24-26, 2018, Internal Organizational Improvement Coach (Examiner Training)
San Antonio, TX
August – 2018
- August 7-9, 2018, Internal Organizational Improvement Coach (Examiner Training)
Houston, TX - August 21-23, 2018, Internal Organizational Improvement Coach (Examiner Training)
Georgetown, TX
September – 2018
- September 25-27, 2018, Internal Organizational Improvement Coach (Examiner Training)
El Paso, TX