There have been many books written on change and how to get people to change. Because the problem is out there, it is always others who need to change. Our first thought is to tell them to change. Our second is to force them. Painful experience tells us that this route is usually less than successful and often disastrous, producing undesirable and unproductive results.
Quality improvement is all about finding out what needs to be changed in order to improve.
You will learn the tools, methods, even the art of improvement, but it will still require that people be willing to try new things, collect data to see if a change is an improvement and be willing to change permanently those processes that should be improved. People will always be the hardest hurdle in this journey. Very few of us learned to work together in school or at work as evidenced by the plethora of seminars, books, conferences, etc. on the subject. Use the Internet to explore resources on some of these subjects. No one wants to commit to meetings that will last 5 years, unless they know that in advance.