The Organization Is the Learner.
A DIFFERENT APPROACH TO ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Most professional development is designed to make individuals more knowledgeable. The Performance Excellence Collaborative is designed to make organizations more capable.
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Leaders learn together, examine how exceptional organizations work, assess their own approaches, build stronger systems, apply what they learn between sessions, and measure the difference.
DEVELOP LEADERS
Build shared understanding
BUILD CAPABILITY
Turn knowledge into practice
STRENGTHEN SYSTEMS
Build better ways of working
IMPROVE RESULTS
Create measurable impact
The goal isn't simply to develop more knowledgeable leaders. It's to build a more capable organization.
A LABORATORY FOR ORGANIZATIONAL EXCELLENCE
Don't Just Study Excellence. Put It to Work.
The Collaborative creates a disciplined environment where organizations learn from proven principles and role-model practices, examine how those ideas apply to their own organization, and turn learning into stronger systems and better performance.
The objective isn't to learn how to answer the Baldrige questions. It's to use the questions to build a better organization.
03 — ENGAGEMENT & CULTURE
Build the Environment for Excellence.
How do leaders create the culture, workforce capability, engagement and accountability for exceptional performance?
01 — STRATEGIC CLARITY & EXECUTION
Set Direction. Create Focus.
Where are we going, how will we win, and how do we align the organization around what matters most?
02 — CUSTOMER-FOCUSED EXCELLENCE
Create Value. Deliver Excellence.
How do we deeply understand customers, design exceptional experiences, and build operations capable of delivering consistently?
A YEAR OF BUILDING ORGANIZATIONAL CAPABILITY
Four Cycles. One Integrated Organization.
Over the course of a year, participating organizations work through four 90-day cycles designed to strengthen the systems that drive performance. Each cycle focuses attention on a critical dim
Each cycle strengthens a different part of the organization.
Together, they build an integrated system for role-model performance.
04 — RUN, IMPROVE, GROW & TRANSFORM
Learn. Adapt. Renew.
How do we use organizational intelligence to run the organization well today while improving, growing and transforming for tomorrow?
LEARNING THAT CREATES VALUE
Build Capability While Solving Something That Matters.
Throughout the Collaborative, each organization applies what it is learning through a strategically significant Impact Project—an opportunity to strengthen organizational capability while creating measurable value.
Build your organization's capability to solve important problems—while solving one that matters.
IDENTIFY
Choose an opportunity that matters
APPLY
Put the learning to work
BUILD
Strengthen capability as you solve
MEASURE
Demonstrate the difference
Strategic • Significant • Measurable
Principles • Practices • Peer insights
Systems • People • Processes
Results • Learning • Value
EXCELLENCE DOESN'T DEVELOP IN ISOLATION
Learn Alongside Organizations That Will Challenge You to Get Better.
The Collaborative brings together a small, curated group of Oklahoma organizations committed to becoming exceptional. Members learn from one another, examine different approaches, share what works—and what doesn't—and build relationships that extend beyond individual sessions.
ROLE MODELS
See What Excellence Looks Like
Learn from organizations and leaders demonstrating exceptional approaches—and examine how those practices work in the real world.
PEERS
Learn From Those on the Journey
Exchange ideas, challenge assumptions and learn alongside organizations wrestling with many of the same questions.
COMMUNITY
Strengthen Something Bigger
Build relationships with organizations and leaders committed to advancing performance excellence across Oklahoma.
When organizations learn from one another, excellence spreads. Stronger organizations create a stronger Oklahoma.
ORGANIZATIONAL MEMBERSHIP
The Organization
Joins
Participation is designed around the organization's needs, priorities and performance-excellence journey.
More Than a Cohort. A Year-Long Performance Excellence Journey.
The Collaborative is an organizational membership—not simply an individual development program. Participating leaders learn together, apply what they learn inside the organization, and engage others as stronger approaches are built and deployed.
The Collaborative doesn't end when the session does. The real work happens as learning becomes practice inside the organization.
LEADERSHIP TEAM
Leaders Learn
Together
A core group of leaders learns together throughout the year, building shared understanding and capacity to lead improvement.
BUILT FOR ORGANIZATIONAL APPLICATION
EXECUTIVE SPONSORSHIP
Learning Stays
Connected
Executive sponsorship keeps the work connected to strategic priorities and helps remove barriers to application.
BETWEEN-SESSION APPLICATION
Learning Becomes
Action
Leaders apply what they learn between sessions, strengthen organizational approaches and bring experience back into the Collaborative.
What Could Your Organization Become If Excellence Became the Way You Work?
THE PURSUIT OF ROLE-MODEL PERFORMANCE
STRONGER SYSTEMS
Build approaches capable of consistently delivering exceptional performance.
GREATER CAPABILITY
Develop the organizational capacity to learn, improve and adapt.
BETTER RESULTS
Translate stronger systems and greater capability into outcomes that matter.
Don't Just Study Excellence. Build It.
Stronger Organizations. Stronger Oklahoma.