People are the central thread that connect the 5 essential capabilities of business sustainability which are all inextricably linked. Thus, if you are looking to build sustainability, the statement "Our people are our greatest asset" takes on a new significance.  It becomes literally true.  

This has profound implications for you as a business leader, and makes it imperative for you to change behaviour so your people feel like the assets you say they are (rather than expendable costs.) Unless you do you will have no credibility with your people and the deteriorating trend of employee engagement will continue and severely inhibit your performance.

The Zealise Integrity Programme - ZIP™ - provides you with a unique, powerful people management solution that helps build, sustain and embed employee engagement. It builds on our long-held recognition of the critical importance of people and takes the statement about people being your greatest asset literally.  It offers the long-sought method of accounting for people and provides a mechanism for valuing people as human assets, individually and collectively, and including them on the balance sheet in your management accounts. It thus delivers on the ideas first expounded in "Lean Organisations Need FAT People."  

This new approach to people management creates the corporate culture change that cements organisational integrity and continuous improvement, and embeds it into your organisational DNA. It fuels business transformation and performance improvement sustainability by accounting for people as human assets and the option of universal, no-cost, no-equity employee ownership.

Benefits of Accounting for People as Human Assets

Feeling valued is as much a matter of perception as fact, but surveys showing employee disengagement of 70-90% reveal a problem, for any employee not "pulling their weight" is effectively a brake on organisational performance. Yet ...