benefits of applying

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• Learning about your own organisation - assessing your organisation against the Criteria for Performance Excellence ensures a disciplined self-assessment of the whole organisation.

• Third Party Assessment by Experts - the comprehensive evaluation process by a team of skilled evaluators provides an external "objective" assessment of the organisation.

• Feedback Report - a comprehensive feedback report which identifies and prioritises key strengths and opportunities for improvement.

• Building Awareness of Excellence - the Site Visit by the evaluation team is motivational for the applicant's team(s) and raises awareness within the organisation of the leadership goal to achieve "world-class" performance.

• Improvement Planning - the strengths are recognised and reinforced while opportunities for improvement can be reviewed, prioritised and then integrated into improvement plans for the organisation.

• Rationalising Improvement Approaches - the use of the Criteria helps organisations to understand, select and integrate other appropriate management models such as six sigma, Business process re-engineering, balanced scorecard, ISO 9000, activity-based costing, just-in-time production, lean manufacturing, flexible manufacturing, benchmarking, and high performance work and work design.

• Calibration with other organisations globally - the Criteria for Performance Excellence and the Scoring System provided a clear perspective on your organisation's performance compared with the other organisations nationally and globally, indicating your progress towards achieving "world-class" performance.