Management course for Quality managers and Production managers

This Quality Circle course is a special study programme in quality management and operational management. The goal is to transform your organisation to Operational Excellence, and you are the coach leading this process. The program consists of 10 seminars per year and 1 major conference as a kick-off. Under the guidance of the trainers, you will work for a year on the implementation with measurable interim results. One of the trainers is American Professor Dr. Bill Bellows. He is associated with the famous Deming Institute and professor at the University of California. He coaches organisations like Rocketdyne, Blue Origin and Boeing in the US and has more than enough stories to tell.

Quality Circle: For your professional development in management

Through this course, you will work on transforming your organisation. You will reach a whole new level in your professionalism. You will learn to guide your colleagues in the management team and transform the organisation. The trainers immerse themselves in your organisation and help you in your developments. Classic organisations are transformed into modern, customer-oriented organisations with your help. This requires thinking in systems and applying modern management styles.

Quality Circle: Participants and trainers work together as a team

Quality managers and production managers are on their own. This programme helps you solve that problem. You are no longer alone, and you get support from professionals in carrying out your work. You will find a platform for substantive deepening and professional development. The meetings are substantive, inspiring and relaxed at the same time. At the end, you will have gained entirely new insights that will make your work easier in your role as coach and leader.

Course from October 2023 to July 2024 with 1 meeting per month

The Quality Circle programme consists of monthly meetings of 3 hours each and a major live event on the 5th of October. The meetings consist of online lectures by Professor Dr. Bill Bellows. These are interspersed with workshops for practice and developing a plan for transforming your organisation. The sessions can be attended either live or online.

Operational Experience: Deep Dive Event in new management

The first event on the 5th of October will be an Experience. This event is a conference, where new ways of thinking will be presented. Bill will be present in person to spend a day working with you on new insights and making quality and operational management practical in WE-organisations. The outcomes and experiences will be used for learning and deepening throughout the rest of the year. Do not miss this event!

Price Quality Circle

The Quality Circle meetings take place in Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht and can also be followed online. The price is €1950 (ex. VAT) for the course including the Deep Dive Event on the 5th of October. Your colleague can register as a second participant with a 50% discount (€975 ex. VAT). It is effective, for example, for quality managers and production managers to participate together. Participants also get unlimited access to our training portal with syllabi, presentations and many other resources. You keep access to this portal even after the course ends.

Purpose of the Quality Circle for your development

With the content and format of the course, you will develop yourself into a professional manager at excellence level. You are needed to make an organisation a market leader and realise Operational Excellence. The study programme supports you in your development so that you grow into the leader and coach role your management team needs for the transformation to be realised. It is about how you make the difference in an organisation and how you lead that organisation in its journey to market leader.

Dates with locations and topics

The Quality Circle meetings last 3 hours and are organised from 14:00h to 17:00h from our location in Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht. There, participants meet to conduct workshops and develop their implementation plan. The conference rooms are equipped with modern tools, allowing everything to be followed online as well. The Deep Dive Event on the 5th of October is a conference for which Prof Bill Bellows is coming to the Netherlands. This is a unique experience.