By helping you take the next step forward in people management and development, Profile can help deliver:

• improved employee productivity, motivation and retention
• better monitoring and control of performance and costs
• higher customer satisfaction and better stakeholder relationships
• increased flexibility and resilience
• improved bottom line organisational performance

Profile adds value in many other ways too:

• It can highlight areas of excellence, or show you where excellence can be developed
• It opens up new possibilities and challenges you to continuously improve by setting a high bar at Level 4
• It looks at how deeply embedded good practice has become within your organisation, and how effectively strategy has been converted into culture and everyday practice.
• It offers you an opportunity to benchmark your performance across the range of people management and development activities by comparing your organisation’s achievement to averages for other leading employers
• It helps you to focus on achieving your vision, through better planning for the future and tighter integration with your business strategy.

Profile shares many key characteristics with the Standard:

• It is flexible
•  It describes outcomes, but does not prescribe a given approach
• It can benefit all employers, irrespective of size, sector or complexity

Is it right for you?
Yes – if you have the ambition and commitment to become excellent

This site contains information and links to further advice on the people management issues that Profile covers, as well as helpful examples of good practice. Your Investors in People contact or local Quality Centre will be able to provide more help and work with you through the Profile process.