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Introduction (cont.)

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The Investors in People Standard is a business improvement tool designed to advance an organisation’s performance through its people. As the benchmark for organisations which take their people seriously as the key asset in enabling them to achieve their objectives, the Investors in People Standard has been widely used throughout the UK and internationally by organisations of all types and sizes. If you are ‘recognised’ as an Investor in People (i.e. you have met the Standard) you can be confident that there are no fundamental gaps in your people management systems and you are getting the most from your people.

But for those organisations which are seriously committed to a dynamic, systematic and ambitious programme of performance improvement, the Standard represents just the threshold of an exciting programme of understanding how their organisation operates in depth – and how it can work better. Profile explores these more complex aspects of how your organisation functions.

Profile was developed in response to customer demand for a tool which challenges progressive employers to continuously improve their approach to people management and development, and benchmark their performance against other leading organisations of all sizes and sectors. Employers were involved throughout its development to ensure it only included things that would benefit an organisation’s performance and contribute to the bottom line – whether this was through improved earnings, productivity and profitability, recruitment and retention, increased customer satisfaction and increased competitive advantage. Now, in the first 9 months since its launch, over 120,000 people in the UK work in organisations which have been assessed against Profile.