Investors in People

A highly versatile framework - Delivering proven bottom line benefits - Achievements - History - Things you might not know about Investors in People - The Investors in People journey - Getting started with Investors in People - Where ManagersPitStop supports Investors in People

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Investors in People is the most successful framework for business improvement through people in the UK. It is used by more than 35,000 organisations in over 50 countries – from start–ups with two people to major players employing hundreds of thousands. The UK’s leading people management standard, Investors in People's simple and flexible framework is helping organisations of all sizes and sectors to improve their business performance.

Investors in People offers a business improvement tool designed to help all kinds of organisations develop performance through their people. It provides tailored assessments designed to support organisations in planning, implementing and evaluating effective strategies and is relevant for organisations of all sizes and sectors.

Investors in People (IIP) provides a flexible framework, which any organisation can use. It mirrors the business planning cycle (plan, do, review) making it clear for organisations to follow and implement in their own planning cycle.

The framework is based on three main principles:

PLAN: Developing strategies to improve the performance of the organisation.

DO: Taking action to improve the performance of the organisation.

REVIEW: Evaluating the impact of its investment in people on the performance of the organisation. Each principle has clear indicators underpinning them.

PLAN

1. A strategy for improving the performance of the organisation is clearly defined and understood.
2. Learning and development is planned to achieve the organisation’ objectives.
3. Strategies for managing people are designed to promote equality of opportunity in the development of the organisation’s people.
4. The capabilities managers need to lead, manage and develop people effectively are clearly defined and understood.

DO

5. Managers are effective in leading, managing and developing people.
6. People’s contributions to the organisation are recognised and valued.
7. People are encouraged to take ownership and responsibility by being involved in decision-making.
8. People learn and develop effectively.

REVIEW

9. Investment in people improves the performance of the organisation.
10. Improvements are continually made to the way people are managed and developed.

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A HIGHLY VERSATILE FRAMEWORK

Investors in People is a flexible and easy to use standard which helps organisations transform their business performance. It outcome focused, outlining what you need to achieve, but never prescribing how. This flexible approach allows thousands of different employers of every sector and size to use the same framework.

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DELIVERING PROVEN BOTTOM LINE BENEFITS

Investors in People has grown to be the UK’s leading people management business improvement standard because it delivers improved performance to thousands of organisations. Currently almost seven million employees in over 35,000 organisations have achieved Investors in People recognition. And an amazing 3,000 of these have been recognised for ten or more years!

Proving Investors in People works: Recent research demonstrates that Investors in People improves financial performance, increases profitability and helps organisations meet their strategic objectives.

Managing change in a downturn – CBI research undertaken in 2008 stated that “Investors in People is a particularly useful framework for organisations undergoing significant or rapid change.”

Business improvement focused – whatever your business priorities, Investors in People’s framework can now be geared to ensure you get the best results against your business plan.

World class good practice : Developed over 18 years with some of the world’s leading organisations. You can work with The Standard – the foundation of good management practice or go broader and deeper and be tested against the full framework.

Continuous Development : Advisers, assessors and self-check tools can tell you how well you are performing, suggest key performance indicators or provide tailored business advice on where to best focus development activity.

Customer-led : Investors in People grew out of the 1990s recession and is designed by business for business. Our success as a voluntary framework depends on ensuring that employers find us flexible and easy to use.

A winning formula: In addition to helping them improve their business performance, some customers also work with us to stand out from their competitors, attract and retain the most talented people, or win new business.

"Investors in People is an excellent tool that can be used to identify ways of raising our organisation’s performance to an even higher level and as a framework for continuous development"
David Fairhurst, VP People, McDonald’s

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ACHIEVEMENTS

When Superbrands revealed its top 500 Business Superbrands for 2009, Investors in People had risen an impressive 207 places to sit at 210, making it the biggest year-on-year riser. Investors in People has consistently achieved high levels of consumer recognition and its listing as one of the top Business Superbrands is testament to its reputation as the UK’s leading tool for business improvement through people. Investors in People aims to be relevant, trusted and ﬂ exible. During its history, the framework has been through three extensive reviews to ensure it is at the forefront of best practice, challenging organisations to continuously improve. Furthermore, Investors in People delivers real results; it creates improved employee engagement, increased ﬂexibility and better bottom line results. Independent research in 2008 from Cranﬁeld School of Management shows a causal link between the adoption of the Investors in People Standard and improved ﬁnancial performance. This research also showed that the more an organisation embraces the principles of Investors in People, the greater the beneﬁts.

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HISTORY

Investors in People is a ﬂexible, easy to use framework which helps organisations transform their business performance and boosts the productivity of the UK economy. It improves the ways in which organisations manage and develop their people. The framework is outcome focused, outlining what needs to be achieved, never prescribing how. Investors in People focuses on identifying organisational priorities, applying the framework in a tailored way to deliver them.

Born out of the recession of the early 1990s, Investors in People was launched by business, for business. Since then thousands of employers throughout the UK have worked with the Investors in People framework in conjunction with expert advisors and assessors to enhance their performance and meet their goals. Currently almost eight million employees in more than 35,000 organisations, based in 50 countries worldwide, are working with Investors in People. Of those organisations, 3,500 have been recognised for 10 or more years bearing testimony to the long term effectiveness of the Investors in People approach.

At the heart of Investors in People is The Standard. It comprises 39 outcome-based evidence requirements which follow the ‘plan, do, review’ cycle. This allows organisations to build up a complete picture of how they are managing their people and where they can make improvements. Organisations need to meet these 39 evidence requirements in order to be recognised as an Investor in People and permitted to display the laurel logo and plaque. In May 2009, following extensive consultation with customers, Investors in People launched an extended framework offering greater breadth and depth of expertise. This was introduced alongside a more tailored approach to delivering business support shaped around organisational needs. This new approach is focused on listening to the organisation’s priorities and applying the framework towards meeting objectives giving in-depth feedback on the issues that matter most.

The extended framework provides customers with more scope for continuous improvement and stretch. It offers deeper and more challenging evidence requirements where relevant. To celebrate progress, additional Bronze, Silver and Gold recognition have been introduced to acknowledge additional achievement beyond The Standard.

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THINGS YOU MIGHT NOT KNOW ABOUT INVESTORS IN PEOPLE

Investors in People has introduced a new approach that can transform performance by targeting an organization’s speciﬁc business priorities.

Since 1991 over 40 per cent of the UK workforce, more than 10 million people, have worked in an Investors in People recognised organisation.

Investors in People brings a wide range of beneﬁts to organisations of all sizes. Any changes are always developed in consultation with customers so the framework remains universally relevant.

1990, Investors in People is created when The Employment Department is tasked with developing a national standard that sets out a level of good practice for training and development to achieve
business goals.

In 2001 a total of 5,939,825 employees are in organisations working with Investors in People.

In 2008 some 7,771,357 employees are in organisations working with Investors in People.

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THE INVESTORS IN PEOPLE JOURNEY

There is no set way that you have to ‘do’ Investors in People. What’s important is that we help you to find the route that best suits you and your organisation.

IBP are the Investors in People Centre for London and the South East. Through our extensive network and pool of highly experienced consultants, our expertise has helped over 7,000 companies achieve Investors in People Recognition.

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GETTING STARTED WITH INVESTORS IN PEOPLE

Inspiring Business Performance (IBP) deliver Investors in People under license to the UK Commission for Employment and Skills.

IBP’s commitment to excellence will ensure continued customer satisfaction and even greater support and resources available to clients. As well as offering a broader range of performance improvement services to meet your needs.

People are the greatest asset of every organisation and at IBP we believe that embracing this will lead to a motivated and productive workforce, allowing your organisation to achieve its full potential. IBP will work with you to address your challenges, inspire improvement and provide you with sustainable performance results.

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WHERE ManagersPitStop SUPPORTS INVESTORS IN PEOPLE

As a free ManagersPitStop is available to individuals and businesses everywhere. It provides bite-size people management training sessions online as well as a library of good practice template, exercises and management tips.

If you lead in the implementation and management of your organisations Investors in People activity may be interested in the results of a recent mapping exercise conducted by leading Investor in People advisers/assessors. The results show just how you could use both ManagersPitStop and its resources to help you meet the standard.

Implementing learning from the ManagersPitStop tutorials will help produce evidence for following Investors in People indicators.

Many of the ManagersPitStop tutorials have direct links to the Investors in People Standard and Health & Wellbeing Award. Links are mostly aligned with the core Investors in People Standard (and the corresponding Health & Wellbeing indicators) with some links also made to ‘Your Choice’ evidence requirements.

All the tutorials cover good practice in people management skills that are perfect for Investors in People organisations as well as prospective Investor in People organisations to develop their managers. This is also true for those organisations looking to embark upon the road of developing good practices in their management of Health & Wellbeing.

Each module is in tune with Investors in People philosophy. The organisations that would be considered to benefit most from the ‘Managing Tutorials’ and ‘Recruiting Tutorials’ would be small to medium enterprises as well as large organisations who have little/ reduced resources to develop managers. The ‘Coaching Tutorials’ would appear to suit all sizes of organisation.

It will definitely support organisations to maintain their Investors in People status by having a free management training tool available to develop their managers.

Managing People Tutorials

What is a good manager?
Investors in People indicators: 4.1 / 4.4 also touches on 2.10 & 2.11

Delegating to others
Investors in People indicators: H & W 4.8 4.12

Managing Performance by job description

Managing performance by behaviours
Investors in People indicators: 4.4 / 4.5 also touches on 10.10

Managing performance required skills

Managing performance by objective
Investors in People indicators: 6.2

Managing performance by function

Resolving conflict

Leadership
Investors in People indicators: 5.7 / 5.15 / 5.21 / 5.22 / 5.23 / 5.24 / H&W 1.7/ 4.3 / 5.2

Good team members
Investors in People indicators: 2.8 / 3.18

Assertiveness at work
Investors in People indicators: H&W 4.3

Business Planning
Investors in People indicators: 1.2 / 1.4 / H&W 1.2

What does good look like in the business
Investors in People indicators: 1.7 / 1.13 / 1.19

Conducting training needs analysis
Investors in People indicators: 2.1 / 2.2

Absence Management
Investors in People indicators: H&W 1.3

Communication
Investors in People indicators: 5.4 / H&W 10.2

Developing People
Investors in People indicators: 2.1 / 2.2

Building trust in the business
Investors in People indicators: 3.2 / 3.3 / 3.4 / 5.21 / 5.5 / 5.6 / 5.10 / 5.17 / H&W 3.1 / 4.1 / 5.2

The performance contract
Investors in People indicators: 1.9 / 9.7

Evaluating training
Investors in People indicators: 9.2 / 9.4 / 9.5