April 04, 2025
By Bob Madeiros, Sterling Council Board Member, Team Showcase Chair
The Team Showcase Competition is the ultimate team recognition and competition where your team presents your improvement project live on stage in front of the 33rd Sterling Leadership Conference attendees!
The Team Showcase competition provides a public forum for teams to display the principles and techniques of solving problems, improving processes, reducing cycle time or costs, and contributing to achieving performance excellence. The competition focus is on how and what the teams did within a defined period of time. Showcase attendees have an excellent opportunity to learn from the successes of others. Team participation in this event helps reward and recognize team members for their outstanding efforts and contributions.
Typically, team projects fall into one of several categories:
- Problem-Solving Project:The team was formed to resolve a specific problem; the team will focus on the root cause(s) of the problem and solutions to resolve the problem.
- Continuous Improvement Project:The team was formed to improve an existing process; the team will focus on how improvement opportunities were identified and implemented to achieve goals.
- Innovation or Best Practice Project: The team was formed to identify and implement an innovation or best practice. It will focus on intelligent risk analysis and implementation.
WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOUR ORGANIZATION?
- Recognition for your employee teams and your organization’s operational improvement activities.
- Use of criteria to assess the use of a systematic problem-solving process.
WHAT’S IN IT FOR PRESENTING TEAM MEMBERS?
- Develop competencies in communicating an improvement project using a comprehensive, effective, and systemic approach.
- Enthusiasm and motivation.
- Learn from other presenting teams.
- Attending valuable workshops during the conference.
The Team Showcase Competition is your chance to shine!
Do you have what it takes to win? Don’t miss this chance to gain recognition and showcase your team’s excellence.
Read more at: https://thesterlingconference.com/activities/#sub-showcase or contact Bob Madeiros, bob@naturecoastqa.org