2 September 2009
Capita Symonds’ Cumbria and North East business has
scored a double success after successfully passing the Investors in
Excellence Audit and securing the Investors in People (IiP) Gold
Standard.
The business, which has over 530 staff across 11 offices, passed
the Investors in Excellence (IiE) standard after a gruelling
application, evidence and interview process.
The business has been working towards IiE for three years. The
programme is a nationally-recognised framework for co-ordinating
improvement activity, reaching new heights of performance, and
achieving recognition.
Staff from across the business were interviewed about health and
safety, internal processes, staff care, clients and projects,
management, business planning, communication, reward and
recognition, training and development and corporate responsibility
to back up information provided in the lengthy application
form.
Capita Symonds is believed to be the first consultancy of its
kind to secure the accreditation and has now been put forward for a
regional award in 2010.
The Cumbria and North East business also secured the Gold
Standard in IiP. The Gold Standard is for organisations who achieve
the basic IiP Standard plus 126 or more additional evidence
requirements. Just 2% of Investors in People accredited
organisations have the gold status and, as a result, Capita Symonds
has now been invited to be a Champion and Ambassador of Investors
in People.
Steve Robinson, Director of the Cumbria and North East business
said of the success: “I would like to thank everybody involved,
particularly the Organisational Development Team in helping the
Cumbria and North East business to secure the Investors in
Excellence standard. We submitted a tricky yet compelling
application and this was backed up by our staff who really do
believe that we are doing an excellent job.”
Achieving the Investors in People Gold standard was another positive result which will help ensure that we can continually drive our business forward in the future