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Membership Benefits
 

The New Zealand Business Excellence Foundation can offer your organisation a range of practical benefits designed to assist you in achieving 'world-class' levels of performance and results.  Benefits include access to facilitated assessment tools, training (tailored to your needs "in house" or public courses), networking opportunities, access to best practice information and templates, regular communications, business related articles, presentations and award winning applications, entry into the NZ Business Excellence Awards, an opportunity to train staff as Evaluators on the National Evaluator Panel, and access to experienced Authorised Consultants.

The Criteria for Performance Excellence for Business, Health, Education, Local Authority and Not-for-Profit - The Criteria is an internationally recognised and respected best practice model to provide your organisation with a framework to drive business improvement.  As a member you will receive access to the latest Criteria at the beginning of each year and also access to the Foundation personnel to assist you in interpreting the criteria and planning your business improvement programme.  The Criteria is reviewed annually to ensure that it remains current with international best practice. 

Training Programmes - either via generic 'public courses' or training specifically tailored to your needs and delivered 'in house' where required.  These are designed to provide you and your staff with an understanding of the fundamentals of Business Excellence, the characteristics of world-class organisations, how to assess your organisation against the best practice framework and how to prioritise and turn opportunities for improvement into action.

Access to Processes and Templates - by contacting the Foundation for assistance in identifying and locating processes and templates that will fast track organisational improvement and prevent 'reinventing the wheel'.

Business Excellence Articles - we have a number of business excellence related articles, case studies and award winning applications that are available for download through our knowledge base - available to Foundation Members only.

The BPIR.com - the Benchmarking Performance Improvement Resource.  This provides access to what is considered the most comprehensive and informative website worldwide on benchmarking, best practices, performance measurement, business excellence and general performance improvement.

Networking Opportunities - via regular knowledge hours (held bi-monthly), these are networking events where like-minded professionals are able to listen to a variety of presenters on topical issues and to share knowledge with other participants.

Authorised Consultants - to provide advice, assistance and consultancy services in order to facilitate your continuous improvement journey.

The New Zealand Business Excellence Awards - access to the National awards and the evaluation process on a user pays basis.  The key deliverable is a full feedback report involving over 500 hours of Evaluation by trained National Evaluators.

Personal Development Opportunities - via preferential access to the NZ National Evaluator training course which is calibrated with the US Baldrige evaluation process, the most rigorous business audit framework available internationally.

Study Tours - preferential access to facilitate knowledge sharing and learning from 'world-class' organisations both Nationally and Internationally.

Coaching/Mentoring - provided to businesses wishing to introduce a Business Excellence culture.  Please contact the Foundation to discuss your needs.