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.
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• 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.”
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• 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.
  See our example business priorities.
• World class good practice – our framework has been 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 – our 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