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Business Excellence Models and Organisational Self Assessment

Business excellence models give organisations a structured way to judge how well they perform across leadership, strategy, people, and results. This course introduces widely used excellence frameworks and shows how to run an honest self assessment. Delegates learn to score their organisation, identify priority gaps, and build an improvement plan that lifts overall performance in an African operating context.

What you will be able to do

  • Describe the structure and criteria of leading business excellence models.
  • Explain how enabler and results criteria connect to drive performance.
  • Facilitate a self assessment workshop with a cross functional team.
  • Score organisational performance against excellence criteria objectively.
  • Prioritise improvement opportunities from self assessment findings.
  • Develop an action plan that moves the organisation toward excellence.

Course outline

  1. 01Why Excellence Models Matter
  2. 02Overview of Leading Frameworks
  3. 03Enabler Criteria and Results Criteria
  4. 04Facilitating a Self Assessment
  5. 05Scoring and Evidence Gathering
  6. 06Prioritising Improvement Themes
  7. 07Building the Improvement Plan

Who should attend

This course is intended for senior managers, quality leaders, and strategy professionals who want to benchmark and improve overall organisational performance.

Dates, venues and fees

DatesVenueDaysFeeCalendar
17 to 19 Aug 2026Nairobi3US$1,500
24 to 26 Aug 2026Durban3R13,000
31 Aug to 2 Sep 2026Johannesburg3R13,000
14 to 16 Sep 2026Mauritius3US$1,500
21 to 23 Sep 2026Dubai3US$1,500
28 to 30 Sep 2026Lagos3US$1,500
5 to 7 Oct 2026Harare3US$1,500
12 to 14 Oct 2026Kampala3US$1,500
19 to 21 Oct 2026Dar es Salaam3US$1,500
26 to 28 Oct 2026Pretoria3R13,000
2 to 4 Nov 2026Cape Town3R13,000
16 to 18 Nov 2026Online3US$900
23 to 25 Nov 2026Mozambique3US$1,500
30 Nov to 2 Dec 2026Cairo3US$1,500
7 to 9 Dec 2026Accra3US$1,500
14 to 16 Dec 2026Lusaka3US$1,500
21 to 23 Dec 2026Kigali3US$1,500

Fees are per delegate. South African venues are priced in rand; other locations and online in US dollars. Fees exclude 15% VAT where applicable. Group bookings of three or more delegates from the same organisation qualify for a reduced rate; contact us for a quotation.

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