The aim of this preview section is to give you a tour of IIP Interactive and to explain how everything links together.

Everything in IIP Interactive revolves around 5 key management practices (Strategic Planning, Effective Management, Developing People, Culture and Communication and Managing Performance) which link directly to the Investors in People Standard

There are several options for using IIP Interactive

1.     Know Your Strengths and Development Areas
With the Interactive diagnostic, you can identify where you are against the Investors in People Standard and what your strengths and areas for development are.

2.     Free Information and Resources
Interactive features a library of useful information and guidance, with many guides, examples and templates you can download, customise and use time and time again.

3.     Manage Your Progress
The tool can be used to review and update progress as you work through the 5 management practices. You can refer back to your original diagnostic and monitor the progress as you move nearer to becoming an Investor in People.

This preview walks you through option 3 in more detail, showing how you can update your progress after you have taken the diagnostic.

• Within each management practice we have a section on “Involve your people” and “Review” as Investors in People is not something you can do in isolation.

• IIP Interactive suggests how things can be done, but you will need to work offline in order to embed any changes in your organisation. Two key questions need to be asked continually – “Do we have the evidence to evaluate this?” and “Have we involved our people?”

• Re-visiting IIP Interactive and reviewing and updating your progress can give you a good account of how near you are to becoming an Investor in People.

• Please note that the preview uses the strategic planning section as an example. The preview features static screenshots of Interactive with yellow boxes to provide explanatory information.