Hi; i was a bit anti IIP as being outdated, but I have to say my recent experiences of them have been much better; the whole process has felt fresher and more agile. I found Best Companies quite expensive if you wanted actionable data; I guess it depends if you are doing it more to inform internal action plans, to provide a useful audit or to promote publicly; depending on the answer might inform your choice. If the former 2, I would go IIP; if the latter, then Best Companies or equivalent. Would be interested in reading other’s views too

Hi Teresa,

I work for an SME who have been on the IIP journey for 6/7 years now.  I joined 3 years ago and we were silver.  I did not have any experience of them prior, but we re-accredited last year (in the middle of lockdown) and maintained our Silver with loads of improvement. Yipee to us 🙂   I think they offer a really robust framework to work to, and I like their emphasis on engagement and how the assessments are focussed around what our people say and do.   We had a really great assessor who led us through the process but also challenged our thinking about how we do things and also how we go into the future as once you have accredited you talk once a year to look at how your people plans are going.  I guess the other thing is that the business really bought the teams into why we were doing it and why it was important so for us it isn’t now just a tick box exercise for external views but actually matters internally as well.

Hope that helps and happy to talk further if you would like

Rachel

Hi BCorp seems to be the process the lots of people are using or Times top 100 I would say the younger employees might be more aware of and use a similar template.