The European Foundation for Quality Management (EFQM) Excellence Model, is a self-assessment framework for measuring the strengths and areas for improvement of an organisation across all of its activities. The term ‘excellence’ is used because the Excellence Model focuses on what an organisation does, or could do, to provide an excellent service or product to its customers, service users or stakeholders.
While its origins lie in the private sector, public and voluntary sector organisations can also benefit from using the Excellence Model. It is non-prescriptive and does not involve strictly following a set of rules or standards, but provides a broad and coherent set of assumptions about what is required for a good organisation and its management. Each organisation can use it in its own way to manage and develop improvement, under the control of those who use the methods rather than an external evaluator.
This training course is designed to get people in an organisation actively involved in using the EFQM Excellence Model to drive improvements. Following the training, participants should be able to start applying the skills they have learned to drive improvement teams or participate in a self-assessment.
By the end of the EFQM: Road to Excellence Course you will be able to:
- Utilise self-assessment as an improvement tool.
- Build up a roadmap for their organization’s action plan.
- Prioritize improvement actions to ensure effective use of resources.
- Develop a plan to engage people within their organization to drive improvement efforts.
- Use tools and techniques to improve performance.
- Point out EFQM’s Levels of Excellence to determine own goals and aspirations.
- Distinguish the cultural aspects of Excellence to improve non-tangible strengths.
EFQM: Road to Excellence Course Ideal for:
- Professionals, leaders, supervisors and all those who are involved in quality management implementation and improvement of organizational performance.
- Individuals who are leading or participating in the organizational effort to apply for distinguished national and international quality awards based on the EFQM Model will also find the program beneficial.
