Become a Management Plus Winner

Though in-plants are sometimes overlooked when honors are doled out to printers, NAPL (“the trade association for excellence in graphic communications management”) has a category specifically for in-plants in its prestigious Management Plus program.

Self-evaluation forms and awards applications have just become available for this year’s program, and in-plants are encouraged to participate. Past Gold Award winners include Allstate’s Print Communications Center, University of California-Berkeley Printing Services, CIGNA Printing and Distribution and the Nevada State Printing Division.

Now in its 27th year, NAPL’s performance-assessment program helps graphic communications operations gain insights into their strengths and weaknesses and develop plans for improvement. The program consists of a self-audit, in which in-plants examine nine critical areas to assess their organizational effectiveness, and the Management Plus Awards Competition, in which NAPL judges evaluate entrants’ audits.

Entries must be postmarked by November 13. Awards will be presented during NAPL’s Top Management Conference on March 9, in Santa Barbara, Calif.

A Management Plus evaluation form and awards application is available at www.napl.org (click on the “Performance Measurement” link), or call Robin Schabacker at (800) 642-6275, ext. 6307.