Course description
Sustainability and innovation are critical aspects of business administration currently transforming the business industry. Companies that adopt sustainable and innovative practices gain a competitive edge due to a growing demand for sustainability practices. Additionally, the increasing demand for green products has led to the emergence of new practices and methodologies required to ensure that corporate activities are sustainable and creative.
What are the main pillars of corporate sustainability?
Corporate sustainability practices are contained under Environment, Social, and Governance practices. Companies execute ESG practices to lower environmental carbon footprints while attaining their corporate objectives. These practices are sustainable because they help protect society from pollution while preventing wasteful practices and harmful emissions. It ensures that corporations meet the needs of the present without negatively compromising the capacity of future generations to meet theirs. A company executes sustainable practices by lowering its utilization of non-renewable resources or seeking alternatives that have reduced environmental impacts. The three main pillars of corporate sustainability include profits, the planet, and the people.
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Suitability - Who should attend?
Who Should Attend?
The Rcademy Corporate Sustainability and Innovation Certification Training Course is designed for a wide range of professionals within the corporate environment and everyone looking to adopt sustainable and innovative techniques for corporate governance. The following personnel should undertake the course:
- Corporate sustainability managers:tasked with developing and executing sustainable strategies that address specific challenges of the company
- Risk managers:responsible for reviewing and evaluating risk management protocols and policies, making recommendations, and working on improvements
- Environmental health officers:charged with supervising and enforcing hygiene and health legislations, investigating and reporting pollution incidents
- HR professionals:responsible for supervising all aspects of the employment process, training and orientating new staff
- Asset Managers:responsible for managing the assets of a company and also executing programs that raise the value of a company’s assets
- Company directors:tasked with overseeing the management of a company, its financial operations, investments, and ventures
- Business analysts:tasked with conducting market analyses, evaluating product lines, and the profitability of a business enterprise
- Chief innovation officers;responsible for managing the innovative processes in a company and developing new ideas on how to address challenges
- Health and safety professionals:responsible for developing health and safety strategies and policies for risk assessment and management
- Senior managers:charged with directing and planning the work of a business, supervising employees, and taking proactive decisions when necessary
- Operations Managers:responsible for hiring, training, and supervising employees and also developing strategies to boost efficiency and productivity
- Company directors:tasked with overseeing the management of a company, its financial operations, investments, and ventures
- Every other personinterested in learning about corporate sustainability and innovation
Outcome / Qualification etc.
The Rcademy Corporate Sustainability and Innovation Certification Training Course is designed to help attendees achieve the following objectives:
- Learn how to develop sustainable and innovative strategies for companies and how to deploy them
- Understand principles of corporate sustainability such as cost reductions, operational efficiency, and carbon accounting
- Learn how to design management systems and performance outlines for sustainability practices
- Understand the rudiments of corporate innovations, types, approaches, and how to develop effective corporate strategies
- Learn about ESG practices and how to integrate them into the administration of a company
- Learn how to navigate changes within the organization through the lens of sustainability
- Learn how to design innovative solutions to challenges faced by companies
- Understand the various corporate sustainability tools
Training Course Content
Module 1: Introduction to Corporate Sustainability
- Definition of terms
- Planet earth-a fact sheet
- Elements of corporate sustainability
- The business case for Sustainability
- The Competencies and Behaviours of the sustainable leader
- Benefits of corporate sustainability
- Principles of corporate sustainability
- Sustainability value chain
- The CSO role
- Practical Sustainability and CSR Concepts
Module 2: Overview of Corporate Innovation
- Definition of terms
- Thinking differently
- Motivation and imagination
- Developing ideas
- Problem-solving skills
- Acting differently
Module 3: Corporate Social Responsibility
- Overview of corporate social responsibility
- Types of CSRs
- Vital cultural differences
- Importance of CSR
- The business case for CSR
- Types of CSR
- Organizational Image and corporate citizenship
Module 4: Developing Innovative Skills
- The innovative toolkit
- Purging excessive clutter
- Starting from the end
- Designing innovative strategies for creative ideas
- Building on successes
- Eliminating procrastination
- Removing self-imposed limitations
Module 5: The Sustainability Journey
- Understanding your journey
- Ethics and corporate governance
- Fair play
- Tools for managing, monitoring, and enhancing performances
- Looking into the future
- Sustainability reporting
Module 6: The Sustainable Enterprise
- Definition of sustainable enterprise
- Business ethics and Sustainability
- International implementation of sustainability
- The Shareholder vs Stakeholder in the sustainability effort
- The purpose of the corporation
- Responsible leadership
- Models of sustainability
Module 7: Overview of the ESG Practices
- The History of the ESG Practices
- Benefits and Objectives of the ESG
- ESG and sustainable corporate governance
- Examples of ESG
- Environmental concerns
- ESG reporting
- ESG rating bodies
- Integrating ESG Practices into corporate governance
Module 8: Corporate and Group Creativity
- Mind mapping
- Conducting effective meetings and contributing ideas
- Brainstorming
- Groupthink
- Project management and execution for innovation
- Visualization
- Organizing ideas
Module 9: Best Practices
- Personal Action Planning (PAP)
- Employer-supported volunteering (ESV)
- Organizational Labor and HR
- Designing and making a case for sustainability in an organization
- Global sustainability best practices and Trends
Module 10: The Pillars of Sustainability-Profit
- The tools and concepts for profit sustainability
- Business acumen
- Supply chain and the Kaizen policies
- Green products
- Recognizing market opportunities
Module 11: The Pillars of Sustainability-People
- The tools and concepts of people sustainability
- Supporting the community
- Team cohesion for enhanced productivity
- Transformational leadership
- Managing highly efficient teams
Module 12: The Pillars of Sustainability-Planet
- Transparency of reporting
- Ethical sourcing
- Kaizen: waste reduction and recycling
- Working within the community
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