Driving Sustainable Transformation
Programme Outline
Day 1
- Roles of the CSO
- CSO leadership styles and versatility
- Style and strategy differences across industry and function
- Exercise: Profiling model CSOs in your organisation’s industry
- Managing your sustainability team
- Influencing other C-suite members
- Driving the sustainability agenda across all levels of the organisation
Day 2
- Designing the organisation for sustainability
- Organisational structure and cross-functional collaboration
- Reporting lines and decision rights
- In-class Assignment 1: Identifying potential improvements in your organisation’s set-up
- Purview of the sustainability team
- Sustainability strategy integration
- Budgeting procedures
Day 3
- Stakeholder engagement methods
- Ensuring inclusiveness in decision-making processes
- Creating conducive internal communication channels
- Exercise: Pre-empting stakeholder concerns in your organisation
- Maintaining successful investor relations
- Public relations and crisis management
- Community outreach and engagement
Day 4
- Developing a sustainable culture
- Behavioural vs cultural change
- Combining bottom-up and top-down approaches
- In-class Assignment 2: Envisioning a successful culture of sustainability for your organisation
- Culture champions and behavioural nudges
- Incentive design and sustainability performance management
- Team Project briefing and preliminary planning
Day 5
- Team Project: Developing a roadmap for sustainable transformation
Assessment
- Assignments
- In-class participation
- Team Project
Subject Credits
Upon completion and satisfying the requirements of passing this course, learners will be awarded 12 subject credits.