Integrating Sustainability into Organisational Strategy- A Capacity Building Approach

Two thirds of Australian CSR managers say building internal support and understanding for their organisation’s approach to CSR and sustainability is a top priority.

Posted: Thursday, June 10, 2010 - 11:24

Location: Australia (Melbourne & Sydney (see website))

Event Dates: 21 July 2010 - 22 July 2010, 26 July 2010 - 27 July 2010

Organisation: ACCSR

Link: http://www.accsr.com.au/html/learning2010_integratingsustainability.html

Cost: $2090.00 per person

 

 

At this indispensable two-day workshop with international sustainability thought-leader, Dr Sanjay Sharma, you will:


• Get the knowledge and tools you need to successfully integrate
sustainability into business strategy
• Develop a plan for catalysing change and building your organisation’s
capacity for action
 
CAPACITY BUILDING – YOUR KEY TO SUCCESS
An effective and well-supported sustainability strategy needs more than
a clear vision and road-map. It needs organisational capacity to deliver its
strategic goals.
Capacity building is an ongoing systematic process. It changes managerial
mindsets and develops effective organisational structure and capabilities.
It fosters a common vision and drives sustainable change. Capacity
provides an organisation the ability to anticipate and overcome internal
and external barriers to implementing sustainability strategies and
practices.


Strong capacity for integrating sustainability strategy into every-day
business helps to:


• Attract and retain managerial talent
• Increase operating legitimacy, or the “social license to operate”
• Boost stakeholder support
• Reduce costs through increased efficiency, quality, reliability, safety,
and responsiveness of existing operations
• Foster radical innovations in processes, products, services and new
markets, and
• Promote competitive imagination of future products, services, and
business models.
This workshop will give you the tools and knowledge to achieve these
outcomes.
 
What you Will learn:

Redefine your business
• Develop a strategic vision for delivering sustainable value to your
stakeholders
• Learn how a strategic redefinition of your core business will change
your mission, strategic vision, products and services, and goals
• Understand how leading corporations are redefining their businesses
toward a sustainable future.


Change mindsets and foster innovation
• Learn how to align your managers toward your sustainable goals
• Understand the linkages between changes in organisational structure
and sustainable innovation
• Learn how to build capabilities that enable sustainable innovation.


Develop a sustainable capacity plan for your organisation
• Develop a plan to build capacity for a sustainable strategy for your
organisation
• Share failures and successes and develop a shared learning network
of workshop participants.