Baldrige International

The EFQM, Baldrige and other excellence Criteria have opened up the world to me and have allowed me to enjoy visiting and learning about many cultures. Working with many of the best organizations in these great places has allowed me to learn how much about how they have achieved world-class excellence. This Baldrige International webpage celebrates these wonderful experiences with photos and more importantly by sharing what I have learned. Paul Steel

If I could choose the most important knowledge and experience that I have gained it would be how to effectively implement a Total Integrated Management System of Best Practice Processes.

Please join me at one of my upcoming 2008 Baldrige presentations, seminars, and conferences:

Seminar Brochures: Health Care Seminar Brochure - Education Excellence Seminar Brochure - Business Excellence Seminar Brochure - Public Sector Excellence Seminar Brochure  

Other 2008 Major International Seminar and Symposium Events

Paul Steel Business Excellence Conference 'Achieving Business Excellence' Seminar for Asian business executives - 14-15 February 2008 - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

2008 Paul Steel Baldrige Education Excellence Conference  'Achieving Education Excellence' Seminar for Asian education leaders - 18-19 February 2008 - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Baldrige Health Care Seminar 2008 Paul Steel 1 'Achieving Health Care Excellence' Seminar for Asian health care leaders - 21-22 February 2008 - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Baldrige HEalth Care Seminar 2008 Paul Steel 2  'Achieving Health Care Excellence' Seminar for Asian health care leaders - 25-26 February 2008 - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

2008 Paul Steel Business Excellence Symposium 'Criteria for Performance Excellence Symposium' for Middle Eastern business leaders with Dr. Curt Reimann, Lori Kirkland and Paul Steel - 19 March 2008 - Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia

Baldrige Systems Engineering Course Bangkok Thailand Paul Steel April 2008 'Systems Engineering Seminar' - 8-10 April 2008 - Bangkok, Thailand

Thailand Quality Award Seminar-Paul Steel-TQA 'Systems Management for Organizational Excellence Seminar' - 11 April 2008 - Bangkok, Thailand

Baldrige Public Sector Seminar KL Malaysia April 2008 'Achieving Public Sector Excellence' Seminar for Asian public sector leaders - 14-15 April 2008 - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

 

Please contact me directly for information on my next seminars or how to host a public or in-house seminar.

Photos and descriptions from some earlier major seminars:

'Sharing From Expert' Symposium led by Paul Steel - March 2007 (Jakarta, Indonesia) - sponsored by the Indonesian Ministry of State-Owned Companies' and the Indonesian Quality Award administrators (FEB BUMN)

Paul Steel (third from right) with Baldrige Site Visit Team in Saudi National Attire after 'Achieving World-Class Excellence' presentation - April 2007, Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia.

Paul Steel delivers 'The Evolution of Excellence' presentation to the government quality and productivity awards leaders from more than 20 Asian nations at the Asian Productivity Organization (APO) 'Managing NPOs Challenges in the 21st Century' Conference' - November 2006 (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)

Malaysian Prime Minister Planning Office Strategic Planning Excellence Seminar Paul Steel 2006 Malaysian Office of the Prime Minister Planning Department (MAMPU) 'Strategic Planning Excellence' Seminar - 2006 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Malaysian and Singapore Quality Award Winners 'Enhancing Competitiveness' Seminar - June 2006 - Keynoter: Paul Steel

 

 

Paul Steel in Dubai, United Arab Emirates in December 2005 at his 'EFQM and Baldrige Best Practices' Symposium.

'Reinventing Indonesia' address given to hundreds of Indonesian CEOs by Paul Steel at the first Indonesian Quality Award (IQA) Ceremony in Bali - September 2005

Tata Global Insight to Business Excellence Practices - Paul Steel Tata CEOs: 'Global Insight into Business Excellence Practices' Seminar - Mumbai, India - Paul Steel

London UK Internal Quality Award Program 'Effective Design, Development and Implementation of an Internal Quality Award' Presentation - London, United Kingdom - Paul Steel

Curt Reimann - Paul Steel Dr. Curt Reimann (First Director ('Father') of the Baldrige National Quality Award) serves as Overseer to a 2008 international Baldrige site visit team led by Paul Steel.

 

The Baldrige Award Criteria have truly expanded internationally as evidenced by these photos of several enjoyable experiences. Please click on the links below to see some of the many interesting people I have worked with and some of the enjoyable events that I have been fortunate to participate in:

Bahrain Brasil (Brazil) Canada Denmark
Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE) India Indonesia Iran
Italy Japan Kuwait Latin America (Puerto Rico)
Malaysia Mongolia Nepal Netherlands (Holland)
New Zealand Philippines Qatar Saudi Arabia
Singapore Thailand United Kingdom (UK) China

International Services Examples

Baldrige Self-Assessment Training: Latin America; Saudi Arabia; Indonesia; Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Pune, India; Manila, Philippines; London, UK

Baldrige Application Development Training:    Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia; San Juan, Puerto Rico; Virginia, US

National Examiner Training:    Indonesia, Malaysia, New Zealand

Senior Leader Presentations:    Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia; Petaling Jaya, Malaysia; Indonesia

Baldrige Best Practices Seminar:    Bangkok, Thailand; Dubai, United Arab Emirates; Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

New Project Launch Meetings:    Doha, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait City, Kuwait

Baldrige Site Visits:    Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia; Kalamazoo, MI-US; Charlotte, NC-US; Jakarta, Indonesia

Government Consultation: Malaysian Prime Minister's Planning Department-Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

National Quality Award Judges Training: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Internal Quality Award - Core Team Training: London, United Kingdom (UK)

Baldrige Excellence Tools

The Baldrige resource tools below are used by thousands of organizations worldwide daily. Over 50,000 HyperLinks connect you immediately to tools that help you to excel using the Baldrige Criteria:

1) EasyApp 2008 application development software

2) Baldrige Actionable CRITERIA with 50,000 hyperlinks and 1,200+ new changes identified (Download free 2008 copy):  

More than 1,000 downloads per day attests to the value of this universally popular Baldrige tool.

Baldrige Framework - Business Nonprofit Click to see what's different in the 2008 Business and Public Sector and other Nonprofit Criteria Framework (Hint: ACTIONABLE)

Baldrige Health Care Framework Click to see what's different in the 2008 Health Care Criteria Framework (Hint: ACTIONABLE)

                                      

3) Baldrige 2008 GLOSSARY HD and REFERENCE GUIDE:   GLOSSARY HD - puts definitions of all key Baldrige terminology a click away making them easy to understand 

 

Having served as a Baldrige Senior Examiner in three decades, I enthusiastically welcome the opportunity to contribute my Baldrige Award and other quality awards experience to your organization's success as I have done for organizations in many countries throughout the world and on more than 240 international training and consulting assignments including:

Summary of Paul Steel International Consulting Experience

 Region:

Asia

Europe

Middle East

Latin and South America

Australasia

North America

 Consulting Days:

510+

320+

240+

460+

335+

2,040+

 

 Contact me directly for more information on how I can serve your organization.

Paul Steel 2008Paul Steel - original 1988 NIST Baldrige National Quality Award Examiner, longest serving active member of NIST Board of Examiners. 2008 NIST Baldrige Senior Examiner trained, EFQM experienced, and a management systems consultant since 1981.

President, Total Quality Inc (see sample of TQI services users worldwide)
1432 187th Avenue NE, Bellevue, WA 98008 USA
Phone/SMS (Seattle/Americas):  +1 425 444 4386

Phone/SMS (Saudi Arabia/Middle East): +96655 3456 983

Phone/SMS (UK/Europe): +44 7924 433593

Phone/SMS (Singapore/Asia): +65 9892 2441

Phone/SMS (Jakarta/Asia): +6281 5903 5846

Fax (Seattle/US):    + 1 425 818 4978
Email:   
tqi@msn.com

Resources Training Best Processes Application International Seminars & Conferences Total Integrated Management System Software Criteria Consulting TQI

I am pleased to announce my recent reappointment as Judge/Examiner for the Asia Pacific Quality Organization (APQO). In this role I review applications from the winners of most Asian national quality awards.  Paul Steel