New Choices
Investors in People UK is developing a new way for you to work with our business improvement framework. The approach has been extensively piloted over the past year and will be available to clients in the coming months.
New Choices way is a major change in how you can work with and benefit from Investors in People. Feedback from customers has helped us develop a new approach that delivers even more value. Focusing on your unique business needs means that New Choices provides you with a highly tailored experience.
Customers who have worked with New Choices say that it delivers better service as it is targeted to tackle their specific needs and priorities.
Feedback from Pilot Organisations
An extensive pilot in the West Midlands during summer 2008 involved over 185 clients. The following comments highlighted why the new approach is proving beneficial to clients.
“One of the things I like about the levels of the framework is that I can see so many areas where we can go now. Investors in People has developed beyond my expectations. The sky’s the limit! New Choices is just fantastic!”
“It has been our best Investors in People experience yet. It has proved to be an excellent motivator and has really helped us to concentrate our minds”
”The option to stretch our approach to business planning beyond the Investors in People Standard, using ‘New Choices’ enable us to stay one step ahead of our competitors.”
“We had almost come to the end of the road with Investors in People, but New Choices means it is right back at the heart of our business strategy and will remain so indefinitely.”
"The willingness to adapt the report to provide specific feedback on issues of interest to senior management was also appreciated and skilfully managed."
"It is great to see that Investors in People is helping us to come up with ways of constantly re-invigorating our practices."
"We are extremely pleased that IiP have developed the original model for companies to stretch."
More choice and flexibility
You will be presented with a single Investors in People framework that combines the current Standard and Profile. Whilst the content of the framework remains the same, the main benefit is that you now have much greater choice over how you work with it. You can still access all the good practice as well as the developmental approach that is at the heart of Investors in People.
Whilst achieving the Investors in People Standard will be key to this, our Specialists will help you to work beyond the Standard in areas where there is a business need you wish to develop further.
Working with you
The first step in the process is for an Investors in People Specialist to meet with you to learn about your business aims and objectives. Our Specialists will help you identify the best people and performance measures for your business. These meaningful and achievable measures, will help you track your progress over time and assess the impact on performance.
Business Issue Scoping Tool
To demonstrate how Investors in People can be shaped around the different needs of organisation, this new tool enables you to choose a number of key business issues and see the most relevant parts of Investors in People. Users of the tool are also able to produce a report providing more detailed information about these business issues and other options available from Investors in People. Click here to access it.
Keeping you informed on "New Choices" development
We have a video to download explaining how one of the first organisations, Beard, benefited from working with Investors in People in this more consultative approach. Please note the video references the earlier working title of this project: "New Ways of Working" rather than "New Choices".
If you have any comments or feedback you would like to share regarding "New Choices", please contact newchoices@iipuk.co.uk