Baldrige Excellence Framework

https://www.nist.gov/baldrige

Baldrige is a nonprescriptive framework that empowers your organization to reach its goals, improve results, and become more competitive. It incorporates proven practices on current leadership and management issues into a set of questions that help you manage all the components of your organization as a unified whole.

The Core Values and Concepts are the foundation of the Baldrige framework:

Systems perspective
Visionary leadership
Student-centered excellence
Valuing people
Agility and resilience
Organizational learning
Focus on success and innovation
Management by fact
Societal contributions
Ethics and transparency
Delivering value and results

The Baldrige Education Criteria are organized into seven categories representing key areas of your organization: (1) Leadership; (2) Strategy; (3) Customers; (4) Measurement, Analysis, and Knowledge Management; (5) Workforce; (6) Operations; and (7) Results. The critical issues facing today’s education organizations are woven throughout these categories. Here are some examples of those critical issues:

Diversity, equity, and inclusion
Resilience and safety
Digitization and technology
Innovation
Cybersecurity
Societal responsibility and global sustainability
Hiring and retaining a high-performing workforce
Capitalizing on your organizational ecosystem
Managing risk