Business Resources sustainability
September 04 – September 08 \ 2022: Kuwait
September 18 – September 22 \ 2022 : Amman
October 02 – October 06 \ 2022 : Kuwait
October 16 – October 20 \ 2022 : Amman
October 30 – November 03 \ 2022 : Kuwait
November 06 – November 10 \ 2022 : Amman
Introduction
The IACT course made the worldwide leader in the fusion of business, technology and an entrepreneurial mindset. Imperial Sustainability business programme delivers a curriculum balanced between strategy and finance, created with the goal of helping you reinvent your business as a sustainable organisation:
Þ Cultivate the mindset to create lasting change.
Þ Identify the connections between business and social responsibility.
Þ Evaluate your organisation’s sustainability-related metrics.
Þ Develop a change plan in the direction of a flourishing organisational culture.
Þ Use the six Ps model to evaluate your organisation’s sustainable development.
Þ Integrate stakeholder needs into corporate governance structures.
Þ Explore relevant sustainability case studies.
Objectives
Participants attending the training seminar will:
Þ Create a sustainability transformation plan for your organisation.
Þ Develop a sustainability mindset.
Þ Communicate to key stakeholders the connections between economic and environmental success.
Þ Data-informed: with insights from the thought Business for Society
Þ Reflective: cultivate a sustainability mindset through an optional
Þ Work on establishing the connection between sustainability and mediation track
Who Should Attend?
Ü Functional and business unit leaders from companies committed to sustainability goals,
Ü Investment professionals who are charged with aligning socially responsible investments
Ü New sustainability professionals
Ü Environmental consultants and professionals.
Ü NGO and government leaders who want to understand a business-centered but cross-sectoral perspective on sustainability.
Course Methodology
The course uses self-assessments and a wide mix of business cases that promote healthy discussions around the importance of managing multiple tasks, deadlines and priorities. Participants will benefit from role plays covering workplace challenges related to handling tasks, deadlines and priorities. They will learn how to deal with conflicts that may arise as a result. Interactive team exercises are also used with each team presenting their findings and comments.
This interactive training course includes the following training methodologies as a percentage of the total tuition hours:
- 30% Lectures, Concepts, Role Play
- 30% Workshops & Work Presentations, Techniques
- 20% Based on Case Studies & Practical Exercises
- 20% Videos, Software & General Discussions
Pre and Post Test
Outline
DAY 1:
The Environmental Impacts of Business
Þ Discover how businesses use innovative practices to assess global climate and social challenges
Þ Identify how companies can become part of the solution, evaluate strategies for carbon reduction and analyse how global programmes set goals for long-term practices
Þ The Social Impacts of Business
Þ Draw strategic connections between sustainability and social inequality
DAY 2 :
Assessments and Operations
Þ Learn how rating agencies evaluate how well
Þ organisations meet sustainability goals, explore value chains, trace ESG metrics through the supply chain, identify your organisation’s sustainability-related metrics and create a sustainable value chain strategy.
Þ Sustainable Business Model Innovation
Þ Consider sustainable business model innovation and its future role by devising creative solutions to challenging problems
Þ DAY 3 :
The Role of Technology in Supporting Innovation
Þ Explore technology’s role in transforming business-as-usual processes and innovation by collaborating on works-in-progress
Þ Creating and testing a prototype for a social innovation project for your organization and refining the triple bottom line.
Þ Sustainable Business Strategies
Þ Learn how sustainability supports economic success and can fit into an overall competitive business strategy
DAY 4 :
The Role of Finance and Integrated Reporting
Þ Learn about the finance function as a component of transitioning to sustainability by identifying the impacts of integrated reporting
Þ Analyzing how finance can support sustainability initiatives and exploring strategies to align an organisation’s investments with sustainability.
Þ Purpose-Driven Leadership and Incentive Systems for Sustainability
Þ Reflect on your leadership goals using the methods of ikigai (finding meaning in your work),
Þ Examining how incentives help you attract, retain and develop talent, considering incentive systems to reward employees for meeting sustainability goals and “measuring” volunteerism.
DAY 5 :
Organisational Culture Change and the Purpose of the Organisation
Þ Identify the importance of an organisational culture and the values of yours specifically by developing a plan to become a flourishing organisation
Þ Evaluating an organisation’s commitment to inclusion and exploring the connection between diversity and sustainability
Þ Stakeholder Integration in Governance
Þ Consider how new governance models reflect the new realities of a post-shareholder primacy era by exploring alternative ways of integrating stakeholder voices
Þ Identifying the needs of stakeholders through qualitative research and comparing models of governance structure.
Þ The Purpose-Driven Flourishing Enterprise
Þ Leading Ecosystem Change
Þ Capstone Project
Schedule:
08:30 – 10:15 First Session
10:15 – 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 – 12:15 Second Session
12:15 – 12:30 Coffee Break
12:30 – 14:00 Third Session
Fees:
The Fee for the seminar, including instruction materials, documentation, lunch, coffee/tea breaks & snack is: 3.750USD$
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