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Rural Collaborative Coalitions – Certified Performance Improvement Facilitators guide collaborative efforts to support rural student success, workforce development and economic development – Deb Page, CPT, CPIF, President, TIFPI
Certified Performance Improvement Facilitators are neutral guides who help groups and organizations work together to improve performance, innovate, and solve complex problems. In the State of Georgia, organizations and individuals from across the state who are vested...
Back to School and Beyond with Proven Practices – Jean Quigg, Ed.D., CSIS ID(ILT), National CSIS Director, TIFPI
It is already time for us to begin school and the implementation of School Improvement Plans! Just as Harry Wong’s book, The First Days of School, walks a teacher through structuring and organizing a classroom for success, state and local administrators and teachers...
Collaborative Coalitions for Student Success and Workforce Development – Deb Page CPT, CPIF, President, TIFPI
In June 2021, Forbes noted the need for employees in middle-skill jobs, which typically require more than high school, but less than four years of college. These jobs are typically in demand, and preparation or certification program tuition is affordable. Around the...
Neutrality – The First Critical Skill of a Performance Improvement Facilitator – Deb Page CPT, CPIF, President, TIFPI
Being neutral, not on one side or the other of points of view, or biased toward certain solutions, is a necessary competency of a facilitator of collaborative performance improvement. A few years ago, I facilitated a strategic planning meeting for a board of a...
Can School Improvement Specialists Help K-12 Schools Avoid Waste and Create Sustainable Results as Schools Use COVID-relief Funding? – Deb Page, CPT, CSIS, President, TIFPI
According to the Project Management Institute, nearly ten cents of every dollar invested in projects is wasted. View Article. Can education avoid similar outcomes as schools spend federal COVID-relief funding, including $81 billion recently released in American Rescue...
The High-Demand Skills of Certified Performance Improvement Facilitators Support Collaborative Improvement
Today the ability to help groups and organizations work together to improve performance and solve complex problems is a valuable skill set. Certified Performance Improvement Facilitators (CPIF) have demonstrated this ability. These professionals work across all...