Valuing people course
This course explains the importance of valuing people. It will help you to develop this key behaviour to achieve positive outcomes in your role
Core behaviours
Valuing people
Creating a shared purpose and enabling people development, voice and wellbeing
As people professionals we value what people bring to organisations, and an integral part of our role is to bring the people perspective to business decisions.
We put people at the centre of our approach – balancing consideration, compassion and fairness, and supporting others to do the same. We also have a key role in building a sense of shared purpose, and to give people a meaningful voice on matters that affect their working lives.
As we advise and coach managers and leaders – and enable them to build their own people management capability – we’ll work to encourage a culture of trust, people development and wellbeing, to enable everyone to be their best at work.
NIE Network case study: Power to the people
How a framework for listening and responding to every voice has given the change-weary employees of NIE Network their spark back. Read NIE Network’s story.
Valuing people standards
Each standard progresses through four levels of impact. Which level do you most embody in your day-to-day work?
Foundation level
At this level you will:
- Understand the purpose of your work
- Empathise with others
- Support others to develop and be their best
- Advise colleagues and line managers
- Ask a range of people for their opinion and listen carefully to responses
- Consider the wellbeing of others
Associate level
At this level you will:
- Build a sense of team spirit and purpose
- Treat people fairly and considerately in your work
- Enable others to develop skills and capabilities to be their best at work
- Coach and advise others in the business
- Enable people to have a voice when designing and delivering solutions which impact them
- Take into account the wellbeing of others in the design and delivery of your work
Chartered Member level
At this level you will:
- Communicate the meaning and purpose of work to motivate and inspire people
- Demonstrate compassion, humanity and fairness in your approach
- Enable managers and leaders to support others to be their best at work
- Coach, advise and build people management capability in the organisation
- Enable people to have a meaningful voice by involving them in decisions that impact them, and bring a people perspective to organisation decision-making
- Promote the business and people benefits of wellbeing and the need for shared responsibility
Chartered Fellow level
At this level you will:
- Inspire others through a compelling people vision which shares the broad meaning and purpose of work
- Model compassion, humanity and fairness as a leader
- Promote and encourage career-long learning to build organisation capability and benefit society
- Create a culture of accountability for people management in the organisation
- Strive to create an organisation culture that gives people a voice and puts them at the centre
- Engage leaders and stakeholders in creating and sustaining a culture of wellbeing
Take the course
Resources to guide your work, career planning and development, available on the CIPD's main site.
- Alternative forms of workplace voice - Positioning report
- Best to good practice HR: developing the principles - Report
- Health and well-being: middle managers feel the squeeze - Blog
- How can we create new solutions for worker voice? - Blog
- The road to good work - Discussion paper
- UK Working Lives - Survey
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