1. Ask your local ‘delivery organisation’ (Learning & Skills Council or Business Link) for a copy of the Investors in People (IiP) Standard.
2. Ask your local delivery organisation what guidance, help or financial support they provide, or names of approved advisers.
3. Review your commitment to developing employees: in strategy and plans, and by providing opportunities, encouragement and recognition.
4. Confirm you have a clear business strategy and action plans, including how employee development will help achieve your objectives.
5. Assess the effectiveness of your induction, training and development and whether managers provide effective support.
6. Review how you evaluate the costs and benefits of development activities and their impact on company and individual performance.
7. Investigate employees’ understanding of development opportunities and activities, their effectiveness and your commitment to development.
8. Identify how you can continually improve development activities.
9. Assess in detail how your company measures up against the 12 indicators of the IiP Standard.
10. Prepare an action plan to meet the IiP Standard, including appropriate training and development and performance management systems.
11. Identify the costs - in employee time, advisers’ fees and assessment costs - and likely timescales for achieving the IiP Standard.
12. Make a public commitment to achieving the IiP Standard, both to your delivery organisation and to your employees.
13. Explain to your employees what you are doing; take the action required, and build up evidence of how you meet the IiP Standard.
14. Arrange for formal assessment; consider planning a trial run.
15. Once accredited, maintain the IiP Standard and keep developing your business and employees; prepare to be reviewed within three years.
Do's & Don'ts
Do:
Make employee development an integral part of your business.
Assess what really happens, not just in theory.
Plan training and development activities.
Ensure training and development are effective.
Manage employee performance.
Communicate with and involve employees.
Don’t:
Start the process unless you are committed.
Stop improving once you have achieved the IiP Standard.
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