GUIDELINES FOR ORGANISATIONS EMBARKING UPON PROFILE REVIEWS:
Many organsiations are chosing profile reviews against the Investors In Peploe Standard.
This allows them to benchmak themseleves against other organisations.
It is like receiving a one, two three or four star rating.
However this is a more rigorous assessment and costs twice as much. To obtain the maximum reward from this investment it is important to both:-
1. Work with the assessor
2. Plan effectively for the assessment visit.
A number of steps will help you with this process.
1. Find out what Profile actually means for your organisation
2. Consider your top level objectives, how have you reviewed these and what are the outcomes
3. Identify key processes within the organisation which impact on the development of people and ask yourself the question, "how often should these be reviewed"
4. Identify objectives for the review
5. Relate this to the Investors in People approach
6. Identify the key players who will support the profile review
7. Consider how your advisor can help you
8. Identify the key review processes
9. Assess whether these have been benchmarked
10. Re-visit the previous Investors in People feedback
11. Consider any resource implications including time and funding
12. Try to recognise the level at which you are at and prepare yourself to receive honest feedback
13. Prepare a storyboard which can either act as an aid memoir or be handed to the assessor
14. Look for creative ways to build relationships between yourself, the advisor and the assessor
15. Prepare documentary evidence which will help paint a picture to the assessor of your commitment to continuous development
16. Avoid being defensive, the assessor needs your help to identify those processes which are not being reviewed
17. See it as yet a further opportunity for continuous improvement.
18. On completion of the Profile Review, ask yourself, "how could we have managed this audit better to maximise the benefit to our organisation?"
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