Day of Quality - Spring 2024 Participants Announced

The spring rains will bring back the flowers that made Rochester the famous “Flower City,” but we’ll also see the return of GRQC’s “Day of Quality”. Day of Quality is an annual event (our 11th event is in Spring 2024) where process excellence professionals collaborate with nonprofits and small businesses to enhance operational processes. Modeled after the United Way's Day of Caring, this initiative provides organizations with a unique opportunity to leverage the expertise of volunteer quality professionals to make significant improvements in a single day​​.

 

Benefits:
Day of Quality fosters a mutually beneficial learning environment between volunteers and organizations. 

 

Participating organizations benefit from the infusion of focus on the particular process challenge.   These skills and methodologies can be applied to other challenges across the organization. They see tangible improvements in the process, and improvement of the relationships between departments that are involved in the process that is being focused on. 

 

Volunteers, often quality professionals at large local organizations such as Wegmans, L3Harris, Carestream and Paychex, bring their expertise by offering tutorials in quality tools that help find new ways to identify causes, understand processes, collect, and analyze data, generate ideas, keep projects on track, and make informed decisions. Some of the most leveraged quality tools on Day of Caring include: DMAIC, process mapping, the Fish Bone diagram and value stream mapping. 
 

These professionals get to give back to the community through this skills-based volunteer engagement and they build their networks at the same time.  Individual volunteers are matched with a small consulting team of other professionals who share a commitment to quality and continuous improvement. These new skills enhance the volunteers' professional development and also increases their versatility and effectiveness in future projects. What better way to sharpen your skills in your field than working outside your industry with other skilled professionals who may have different strategies and approaches than you, while giving back?  Volunteers also gain invaluable insights into the unique challenges faced by nonprofits, broadening their understanding and experience. The volunteers learn about unique industries and the unique impact of how environmental factors like funding models and government requirements, can both create and eliminate barriers to change. Participating provides a sense of fulfillment and purpose, as volunteers witness the direct impact of their efforts on improving community services.

 

The partnership between volunteers and organizations during the Day of Quality exemplifies the power of collaboration and shared learning in driving positive change.

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2024 participating organizations include: