Assessments with Impact!
Since its launch in the early 1990s, the basic approach to Investors in People assessments has remained unchanged. Interviews and notes combined with intuitive questioning and a liberal dose of expertise have been the assessors stock in trade, underpinning their ability to measure an organisation against the Standard and provide constructive, value-added feedback on strengths and improvements.
However, many other things have changed in that time, not least of which being the phenomenal increase in the application of information technology to help meet our personal and organizational needs (as you read this newsletter, consider where you would be today without the internet and e-mail!).
With the aim to remain at the forefront of Investors in People, The Assessment Network, in partnership with People Insight Ltd has worked over the last two years to develop unique software designed to support and assist the way in which assessors plan, analyse and report on Investors in People assessments. Called Impact, the software enables assessors to:
- Plan their assessments more quickly and easily
- Gather evidence in one place, with instant analysis of their findings
- Provide clients with ongoing, detailed feedback, without needing to plough through page after page of notes
- Create superb quality and highly visual reports
- Deliver high value insights to clients
Following piloting throughout 2006, Impact has been rolled out across our assessor group during the early spring. Some clients will already have benefited from an assessment plan created by Impact, or from the traffic light analysis and statistical summary contained within an Impact assessment report. If you are yet to do so, your assessor will be pleased to show you what you can expect from an Impact assessment.
Of course our assessors themselves are good judges and here are a few comments from our pilot assessors having used Impact in a live assessment:
“A wonderful way of organising your thoughts and data so that more analysis and therefore more valued feedback can be given in a reasonable time!”
”A tool that will enable you to provide clients with a report that enables them to know exactly where they are strong and to build upon those weaker areas”.
For more information on an Impact assessment please contact your assessor or The Assessment Network direct.
March 2007
