Whether you are a large or small business, school or charity, people are at the heart of what you do.  Your success depends on you getting the best out of everyone.  But, if you are investing in their development, you want to see a good return.  Your investment in your people needs to help you achieve your objectives too.

People are the key to improving performance in your organisation – recruiting, retaining, developing, motivating, managing and communicating with people are all vitally important, yet many organisations do not get these areas right.  Working within the Investors in People framework can help to address these issues and provide real benefits to your bottom line.

Research has shown that benefits can include:

• Increased productivity
• Higher customer satisfaction levels
• Smoother organisational change
• Improved management and leadership
• More effective communications
• A highly skilled workforce

And that’s what Investors in People is all about – energising and stretching your organisation to help it grow.  It’s about investing in people for success.  Thousands of organisations become Investors in People because it’s a good way of managing people and doing business.

The Investors in People Standard

The Standard was revised in November 2004, and the current version is based on the straightforward concept of ‘plan, do, review’, with the following 3 principles:

• Developing strategies to improve the performance of the organisation
• Taking action to improve the performance of the organisation
• Measuring the impact on the performance of the organisation

10 indicators of good practice, each with a central theme, underpin the principles.  Each indicator has a number of evidence requirements (as before).

Support Available

We deliver Investors in People advice and guidance to all organisations across Devon and Cornwall

Support is tailored to your needs and includes:

• A diagnostic review of your position against the Investors in People Standard
• Advice and guidance from registered Investors in People practitioners
• Access to Success through People Workshops
• Web-based resources
• Assistance with Assessment against the Investors in People Standard (undertaken by Quality South West).

This briefing outlines:

• What Investors in People is, and the benefits it offers
• How to start working towards Investors in People
• How to achieve and maintain the Standard
• Where to get help.

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