Making good people great
Leadership & Personal Development, Strategic Management, Lean Six Sigma & Quality Tools
We were delighted to receive our first ISO9001:2015 certificate in April 2018 following several months of standardising and documenting best practice. Internal audits help us maintain certification and to ensure our processes continue to be robust, underpinning all our activities including Levy-funded programmes where compliance is critical.
We joined Wilko at the British Quality Foundation 2019 Awards ceremony having been shortlisted for a Collaboration Award for our work on supporting their strategic development by upskilling key people via levy-funded programmes.
Capella were winners of the Outstanding Achievement Award 2020 for our contribution to the development of the new Quality Practitioner apprenticeship standard. The Chartered Quality Institute's Outstanding Achievement Award 2020 was jointly presented to members of the Trailblazer group. Trailblazer groups are made up of employers that represent the occupation and who currently work in, or have experience of the sector, and intend to employ apprentices in it.
The Inspiring Leadership Award was presented to the Quality Practitioner Trailblazer Group for addressing the urgent need for more Quality Practitioners across sectors.
The first ever Quality Practitioner Apprenticeship standard will have long-term, far reaching impact and makes a significant contribution to education and talent development in quality management.
We were part of the Trailblazer Group that developed the new Quality Practitioner apprenticeship standard that provides a development programme for Quality professionals, enabling critical knowledge, skills and behaviours to be developed across all sectors. The group won these three awards for their collaborative work and excellent achievements.
We were thrilled to win the 2020 Quality Organisation of the Year Award. This prestigious award recognises the work we’ve done and the impact we’ve made in responding to the Covid-19 pandemic. Third party scrutiny, an opportunity for benchmarking and feedback are good reasons to enter the awards, but to win them feels great!
We were absolutely delighted to have been shortlisted for Charted Quality Institute’s Quality Organisation of the Year Award 2019. The four other finalists were:
We received a Highly Commended certificate at the 2016 Semta Skills Awards. This was a joint award with Toyota for our work on the development of a standardised Problem Solving programme that we rolled-out across several sectors.
Programmes at Green and Black Belt level were backed by government funding and resulted in average annual savings equivalent to 30:1 ROI. Many of the delegates have gone on to higher levels of study and have completed further improvement projects within their businesses.
We were invited to present at Brose’s annual Quality Week which included a series of honorary visitors and guest speakers plus workshops, training and fun activities. The aim was to increase awareness and knowledge of Quality and Product Safety. We focussed on a “don’t walk by” message for Problem Solving, focussing on the smaller things that we can all address every day – take a look at the presentation.
You can download Kate Smith's presentation here: Brose’s annual Quality Week (912 KB)
We co-delivered a presentation on Design for Six Sigma for a regional CQI event hosted by Shanghai Automotive.
We co-delivered a short module for a group of MBA students at Cambridge Judge Business School on the integration of Lean and Six Sigma.