Make an Impact with Investors in People.

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing
himself.
Leo Tolstoy

Castlemilk Economic Development Agency Business Services Team specialises in the implementation and maintenance of the coveted Investors in People (IiP) award.

If you want your organisation to grow, develop and embrace future opportunities don’t delay contact CEDA to day.

Investors in People provides a framework for integrating people development with business strategy. It encourages companies to identify best practice so that the performance of the organisation can be improved through its people and a culture of continuous improvement.
In the 21st Century service culture staff are often the organisation's greatest asset.
Your staff are the first contact with your commercial partners make sure first impressions count!

It is your staff who are responsible for delivering the products and services you offer and that you as manager are responsible for any strategic or operational changes in their performance.
It is therefore essential to ensure that:

• Staff are capable of effectively conducting tasks required of them now and in the future.
• The organisation's goals are strongly linked to any learning and training required.
• Your training and learning activities are robustly evaluated as to their impact.

Castlemilk Economic Development Agency Business Services Team can help you implement practices that make these linkages and in doing so improve bottom line results.

Investors in People is a popular and well established method of improving people processes. It employs an external assessment programme to confirm the client meets the national Investors in People (IiP) framework. This requires a company to:
• have a vision for the future
• Communicate the vision
• Ensure that staff understand their objectives and how their work "fits" into the overall plan
• Provide learning, training and development that ensures the organisation moves towards its vision, by meeting business objectives
• Evaluate the impact of training on the organisation

We will steer you through the whole process and ensure that your organisation reaps the benefits in performance improvement.
From the initial meeting we will identify with you the key action areas that will help you get the most benefit from Investors in People.
The subsequent diagnostic will show you how your staff are linked to your business goals and we then provide a gap analysis suggesting areas for improvement.
We can also access a range of training initiatives through our own resources and via our partner network this can include coaching, mentoring, etc
The implementation process will allow you to access our wide ranging Investors in People resources and the services of one of our Investors in People advisors

To quote from a satisfied client “It’s another part of our business that I don’t need to worry about.”

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Investors in People Makes an Impact
Over 60% of the Glasgow workforce is actively involved with the Investors in People standard which is significantly higher than the UK average. The partnership working that Investors in People encourages has ensured that some of the very best organisations anywhere credit the process with real tangible business benefits.
One of the first studies into Investors in People [1] found that "almost four fifths (79%) of employers recognised as Investors in People believed that the initiative had improved the quality of their workforce. Around two thirds believed that their involvement had made a positive contribution to business performance."
A more recent study [2] suggested that the standard had played three roles in the change management process:

• A catalyst of change - 34%
• An enabler of change - 43%
• Offering external recognition of change - 23%

In these roles, it was suggested, the standard not only provided a framework for change but also provided a tool for carrying out a reality check on the resulting benefits which were reported as being:

• Increased bottom line in at least a third of the private, and to a lesser extent public sector firms
• Increased competitiveness in 7 of 10 organisations
• Increased productivity in 7 of 10 organisations
• Reduced staff turnover in 5 of 10 organisations
• Improved profits in 4 of 10 organisations
• Reduced recruitment costs in 4 of 10 organisations

[1] Evaluation of Investors in People, Institute of Employment Studies, based a study of 1726 organisations

[2] Building capability for the 21st century, Investors in People, based on a study of 2079 organisations