What We Do
Productivity Improvement that Drives World-Class Outcomes
We support our member organisations’ productivity improvement by implementing a business excellence approach. This can be done by team, or across the organisation.
Sharing knowledge and performance excellence tools to support you and your organisation.
Connecting you with like-minded organisations and individuals to leverage and share knowledge, and collaborate on world-class business practices through networking and mentoring opportunities.
Guiding and helping you track your journey to world-class levels of business excellence through self-assessment, facilitated assessments and training opportunities.
Recognising your achievements in pursuing performance excellence through evaluation and awards programmes.
“I see the Baldrige process as a powerful set of mechanisms for disciplined people engaged in disciplined thought and taking disciplined action to created great organizations that produce exceptional results.”
Gold Membership
150+ Employees- Tool Kits
- Dedicated NZBEF Membership Manager
- Organisational Assessment Tools
- NZBEF Stratgic Development Workshop (1 Day)
- Access to BPIR.com
- NZ and International Best Practice Awards Support (20%)
- Knowledge Base
- Networking
- EFQM 1 Day Awareness Courses (3 Attendees FOC)
- Promotion of Non Commercial Activities and Announcements
- Training Course Discount Through NZBEF (Up to 20%%)
- Personal Development Training Discount (Up to 20%)
- Event Discount (NZBEF Annual Conference) (50% discount on 10 tickets)
- Event Tickets (Annual Conference) (6 Complementary Tickets)
- Not For Profit Organisation Membership is Reduced by 40%
Silver Membership
21 - 150 Employees- Tool Kits
- Dedicated NZBEF Membership Manager
- Organisational Assessment Tools
- NZBEF Stratgic Development Workshop (Half Day)
- Access to BPIR.com
- NZ and International Best Practice Awards Support (15%)
- Knowledge Base
- Networking
- EFQM 1 Day Awareness Courses (2 Attendees FOC)
- Promotion of Non Commercial Activities and Announcements
- Training Course Discount Through NZBEF (Up to 15%)
- Personal Development Training Discount (Up to 15%)
- Event Discount (NZBEF Annual Conference) (50% discount on 5 tickets)
- Event Tickets (Annual Conference) (3 Complementary Tickets)
- Not For Profit Organisation Membership is Reduced by 40%
Bronze Membership
Up to 20 employees- Tool Kits
- Dedicated NZBEF Membership Manager
- Organisational Assessment Tools
- NZBEF Stratgic Development Workshop (2 Hours)
- Access to BPIR.com
- NZ and International Best Practice Awards Support (10%)
- Knowledge Base
- Networking
- EFQM 1 Day Awareness Courses (1 Attendee FOC)
- Promotion of Non Commercial Activities and Announcements
- Training Course Discount Through NZBEF (Up to 10%)
- Personal Development Training Discount (Up to 10%)
- Event Discount (NZBEF Annual Conference) (50% discount on 2 tickets)
- Event Tickets (Annual Conference) (1 Complementary Ticket)
- Not For Profit Organisation Membership is Reduced by 40%
Individual Membership
- Tool Kits
- Organisational Assessment Tools
- Access to BPIR.com
- NZ and International Best Practice Awards Support (10%)
- Knowledge Base
- Networking
- EFQM 1 Day Awareness Courses (1 Attendee FOC)
- Promotion of Non Commercial Activities and Announcements
- Training Course Discount Through NZBEF (Up to 10%)
- Personal Development Training Discount (Up to 10%)
- Event Discount (NZBEF Annual Conference) (50% discount on 1 ticket)
- Not For Profit Organisation Membership is Reduced by 40%
The Criteria for Performance Excellence
Assistance in interpreting and applying the internationally recognised, best practice and performance excellence framework.
Organisational Assessment Tools
A range of options to evaluate your organisation that are tailored to your organisations individual business needs including, strategic assessment, workforce engagement and customer insight assessments.
Training Course Discounts Through NZBEF
A range of performance improvement programmes, either public or in-house, tailored to your needs.
Dedicated NZBEF Membership Manager
NZBEF members receive unique support throughout the whole of their membership from an experienced NZBEF professional
Networking
Various opportunities for the sharing of knowledge, through our community of like-minded organisations.
Knowledge Base
Our repository of over 1200 documents all relevant to the many facets of applying the Criteria for Performance Excellence.
Tool Kits
Access to a range of tools and guides to the implementation of performance excellence.
Access to BPIR.com
This is an international resource for benchmarks, best practice and performance excellence administered by Dr. Robin Mann of Massey University.
Social Media
News, events and articles pertinent to our membership.
NZBEF Awards
These awards are based on independently evaluated organisational achievement, and from the evaluation part of the continuous improvement cycle. The award has two parts, one is the award itself, and arguably the most important part is the comprehensive feedback report.
Personal Development
This takes the form of training in the Criteria for Performance Excellence (CPE), how to evaluate against the CPE and actual opportunities to utilise the training in evaluation situations.
Attendance at NZOQ Events
NZBEF members are able to attend NZ Organisation for Quality (NZOQ) events at the member rate.
EFQM 1 Day Awareness Courses
Opportunities for EFQM awareness or training opportunities
NZBEF Strategic Development Workshop
NZBEF Members can gain an exclusive insight into our deeper and more extensive programs by experiencing a short strategic development workshop personalised to your organisation and put together by NZBEF experts
Promotion of Non-Commercial Activities and Announcements
NZBEF is always proud to share great news and activities from our members. Our members can benefit from increasing their visibility through our community at the launch of their membership and ongoing through our social media channels
Contact Us
New Zealand Business Excellence Foundation
PO Box 331-658 Takapuna 0740
Level 3,
81 Grafton Road,
Auckland
(09) 489 8791
info@nzbef.org.nz