Asociatia TEAM 4 Excellence

TYPE
TEAM 4 Excellence (T4E) is an NGO, initiated in June 2017. T4E is managed by a single tier board, chaired by a President and headquartered in the city of Constanta, South-East Romania. T4E include 50+ members and collaborators, including managers, researchers, trainers, youth workers, admin staff and technicians.

SCOPE OF WORK
Our mission is to Train, Evaluate and Advise individuals and organisations on Management Excellence in Romania. We find the best global management practices, standards and frameworks, which we use locally to drive sustainable excellence in Romanian commercial organisations, public institutions and non-for-profit organisations. We believe that Romania needs sustainable excellence for achieving outstanding results in terms of performance, productivity and competitiveness.

Our vision is to be recognised as the organisation leading the quest for management excellence and redefining the concept of best-in-class for the Romanian management.

In achieving our mission and vision, we have set out our core values on three pillars: professionalism, service of stakeholders and collaborative partnership. As such, by professionalism we understand integrity, ethical standards, confidentiality, strategic perspective and independent view. The second pillar means for us an orientation towards assisting stakeholders to improve their performance and productivity. Our third pillar of values is related to creating an unrivalled collaboration platform for Romanians and for the Romanian legal entities.

We have embedded our values into the organisational culture and structure, by adhering to the principles of UN Global Compact and the ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work. The set values materialise into our ethics in day-by-day activities.

In accordance with the above, we seek to contribute to a sustainable future through involving in the personal and professional development of young generations, in order to address the need for a competent workforce of the economy. In this regard, we believe that young women, people with fewer opportunities including NEETs and those with the risk of marginalisation, migrants and those coming from migrant families are an excellent pool for young talents.

CAPABILITIES
Guided by the strategic intent of promoting the best management practices in Romania, T4E has become member of, and has entered a long term strategic partnership with, the European Foundation for Quality Management (EFQM) by becoming national partner for Romania. For the past twenty years, EFQM is the repository of the Excellence Model which they have refined and incrementally adapted to stakeholder needs.

From the EFQM national partner position, T4E has access to a global network of national partners and, through those, to about 30,000 organisations in Europe and many more globally. T4E uses these to support and deliver Excellence principles in Romania, by addressing to the key stakeholders (employees, suppliers, customers and wider society) from the public and private sectors. T4E manages and distributes the EFQM service portfolio in Romania, to organisations that aim to improve themselves through the excellence principles. As such, T4E activities include training, assessment and advice on using the Excellence Framework. The national networking of T4E includes public institutions, such as schools, universities, local and central authorities, and private firms of various sizes and from several industries.

In addition, T4E has access to a wide range of good management practices shared by organisations from the Excellence Network, and to numerous high-value materials, such as: training materials, generic assessment tools, examples of management documents, user guides, member newsletters, articles, white papers, good practice visits to members and periodic webinars.

Through the professional membership of members, T4E has access to a tremendous amount of high quality resources from UK and US organisations, including PMI, CIMA, IAM, IMarEST, AMBA, Energy Institute, ScienceDirect, Web of Knowledge and CMI (Management Direct, the largest Management Portal). In addition, T4E members are members of John Maxwell’s university of leadership, which has dedicated materials and teaching methods for youth.

In terms of physical resources, T4E benefits from resources shared by the founding members and their enterprises. Available resources include offices, conference room, ICT tools including computers, servers, coding software, etc. Also, T4E has entered a collaboration with a professional accounting firm (C&P) to ensure financial legal compliance and sustainable operations. T4E is being independently audited for regulatory compliance.

T4E has access to the competences (organizational knowledge, skills and experience of key personnel) and resources (e.g. processes and physical resources) to carry out projects (including those EU financed) that contribute to entrepreneurship education.