Investors in People Profile is a powerful tool for business improvement. Profile uses the Investors in People Standard as a foundation, to open fresh possibilities for improvement by embracing a wide range of people management issues which are not contained in the Standard itself. Using Profile to explore these issues in depth can help you keep a step ahead in the marketplace.

By shedding light on such a wide range of issues and their relative level of performance, Profile delivers:

• an objective, detailed and thorough analysis of your people management systems
• an accurate measure of how well they are working
• fresh and challenging insights into how you can continue to develop
• clear guidance on where there is room for improvement

This enables you to focus your efforts on the priority targets and plan for future investment and development with confidence.

“Profile is an excellent tool that can be used in a number of ways, including identifying further ways of raising our organisation’s performance to an even higher level, benchmarking against the Standard, and as a framework for continuous development.”

- David Fairhurst, VP People, McDonald’s

How are you doing?
The Investors in People Standard is a business improvement tool designed to advance an organisation’s performance through its people. If you have already achieved 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 if you 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 your organisation operates in depth – and how it can work better.

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. Since its launch, over 120,000 people in the UK work in organisations which have been assessed against Profile.