Washington, D.C. --- The Graduate School, USDA awarded its W. Edwards Deming Training Award to the Office of Departmental Operations and Coordination (ODOC), U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) at the Excellence in Government conference (EIG) on May 12. The School presents the award annually to a federal government organization or a civilian or uniformed branch of the military. It highlights an impressive workforce development and training initiative that has measurably improved the organization's performance.
Dr. Deming was an instructor at the School for more than 20 years and developed and implemented many of his ideas about quality assurance during his tenure. His work has been described as the third stage of the Industrial Revolution and incorporated the idea that employees at all levels of private industry and government have a responsibility to cooperate to produce excellent products and services.
The School honored HUD's Office of Departmental Operations and Coordination for its success with its compliance and monitoring training effort. The initiative resulted in the removal of HUD's programs from GAO's high risk watch list and used a multidisciplinary approach to develop training programs. In addition HUD revised and updated its policies and procedures and created the HUD Monitoring Desk Guide to assist employees. The award-winning program also trained more that 2700 staff members and 800 managers and supervisors nationwide.
“The Graduate School is pleased to present this award to the Office of Departmental Operations and Coordination at HUD,” said Dr. Jerry Ice at the conference. “We celebrate the agency's dedication to excellence and know that employees at HUD, much like our staff at the Graduate School, try to emulate Dr. Deming's example of cooperation and service on daily basis.”
To learn more about the Graduate School, USDA's W. Edwards Deming Training Award, visit www.grad.usda.gov. |