COURSE OVERVIEW

This practical and highly-interactive interactive course includes various practical sessions and exercises. Theory learnt will be applied using the state-of-the-art simulators. 

Sustainability, also called triple-bottom-line business accountability, is the practice of expanding traditional business to take into account environmental and social performance in addition to financial results. 

 

For many organizations, financial interests alone no longer satisfy the needs of shareholders, customers, communities, and other stakeholders who require or desire information about overall organizational performance. Organizations choose sustainability because it enhances and strengthens a company’s brand and reputation, provides differentiation in the marketplace and establishes a foundation for open, positive communications between a company and its stakeholders. 

 

When done as a dynamic, interdependent discipline, sustainability reinforces the line between short-term financial goals with longer term environmental and social objectives, resulting in a situation where all three can co-exist and benefit a global society. 

 

This course is designed to provide delegates with detailed and up-to-date overview of sustainability and environmental awareness.  It covers the key concepts and principles of sustainability and CSR; how the company activities impact the environment and community and how organizational behavior is impacted by CSR; the company policies and procedures to manage the environmental impact of the company’s activities that includes energy conservation policies, recycling policies and hazardous waste disposal policies and procedures; examining the social and environmental systems in which the company operates to target relevant opportunities for impact; conducting an inventory of the current sustainability efforts; creating a blueprint for change; driving environmental and social benefit within three distinct areas engaging in philanthropy, optimizing operational impact and creating shared value; consolidating the efforts around key objectives; evolving the sustainability activities to align with organizational goals and capabilities; and identifying the opportunities that benefit the organization as well as the community. 

 

Further, the course will also discuss building the ability to create shared business and social value over time; making the business case for the sustainability strategy; 

integrating sustainability best practices into key business areas, disseminating policy effectively and embedding sustainability within the culture; building sustainability expertise and capabilities; integrating sustainability metrics into general performance management systems; measuring social, environmental and business impact; communicating the goals and impact of sustainability efforts to colleagues, shareholders and other stakeholders; evaluating complex environments and potential impacts before investing capital or making business decisions; decentralizing sustainability to allow for local differences and optimizations across the organization, regionally and globally; identifying current vulnerabilities and predicting future pitfalls; integrating sustainability initiatives in vendor and supplier agreements; and interacting effectively with diverse internal and external stakeholders.