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Education Efforts

Our education series so far has consisted of internally-taught classes. Some of these were developed internally, others were purchased from vendors. For more information on any of these classes, send e-mail to Catherine Lilly at

clilly@umich.edu.

Total Quality Training from ITD


Basic Principles of Total Quality

- TQ 101

- 8 hours

- Nearly the entire staff of ITD has attended one of these training sessions. This means over 600 staff members.


Application of the basic principles

- TQ 102

- 8 hours

- approximately 90% of ITD staff have attended one of these sessions (over 550 staff ).


Team Leader Training

- Basic Quality Skills and Tools to lead /be an effective member of a Quality or basic problem-solving team

- 40 hours

- approximately 50% of staff attended have attended one of these sessions (over 300 staff).


Team Member Orientation sessions

- for newly-forming Quality teams

- 4-8 hours

- a number of newly-forming teams have taken advantage of this.


Partnering with Customers for Process Innovation and Improvement

- TQ 103

- 7 hours

- approximately 55% of staff attended have attended one of these sessions (over 345 staff).


Developing Quality Indicators

- TQ 201

- (just beginning)


Team Facilitator Training

- specialized skills necessary to support leaders of quality improvement teams, process innovation teams and cross-functional project teams.

- 44 hours over several days.

- approximately 30 staff members have attended one of these sessions.

Last updated 5 May by tbray@umich.edu