Review your own performance on sustainability governance as rigorously as you review others'.
Sustainability Governance and Corporate Responsibility Towards Society
Move sustainability governance from general awareness to a repeatable, reviewable practice.
📍 Tunis🗓️ 5 training days📚 4 modules🎓 Accredited certificate
5intensive training days
4scientific modules
8training sessions
32detailed points
Course Overview
Managers are promoted for competence and then judged on sustainability governance, which nobody trained them for. The hardest part of the organisational leadership capability is rarely deciding — it is holding the decision when it becomes unpopular. The programme takes participants through the wider organisational leadership agenda end to end, from framing the problem to closing it out. Moving sustainability governance from written policy into daily practice is not achieved by a single decision. The outcome is a practitioner who can hold a position on this strand of organisational leadership and revise it on evidence. The programme uses small-group work so that each participant's treatment of the organisational leadership discipline is examined, not just described. It is designed for mixed groups, so that sustainability governance is examined from more than one functional angle. Where this aspect of organisational leadership is measured, it improves; where it is only discussed, it drifts. Participants leave with a first-ninety-days plan for the practice within organisational leadership rather than a set of notes.
Expected Learning Outcomes
Handle the trade-offs in sustainability governance between speed, cost and assurance explicitly rather than implicitly.
Communicate the reasoning behind sustainability governance, not only the conclusion.
Anticipate the objections that sustainability governance will attract internally and answer them in advance.
Select indicators that show whether sustainability governance is improving, and reject those that only look useful.
Translate sustainability governance into objectives each person can see themselves in.
Build coalitions across functions to make sustainability governance stick.
Who Should Attend
Project and programme managers whose success depends on sustainability governance.
Newly promoted managers taking on sustainability governance for the first time.
Department heads and senior managers accountable for sustainability governance.
Technical staff being prepared for supervisory responsibility over sustainability governance.
High-potential staff being prepared for wider responsibility for sustainability governance.
Planning staff whose forecasts and budgets are affected by sustainability governance.
Course Modules
Sustainability governance: resilience and the personal cost of leading
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Comparing sustainability governance with recognised practice
- Name the person accountable for each part of sustainability governance, not the committee.
- Identify single points of dependency in sustainability governance and reduce them.
- Give one piece of specific feedback on sustainability governance within the week.
- Identify your successor for sustainability governance and the gap they need to close.
Session 2Recovering after a visible mistake on sustainability governance
- Decide what will be stopped to create capacity for sustainability governance.
- Remove steps in sustainability governance that add effort without adding assurance.
- Decide the point at which you would escalate sustainability governance.
- Set the decision rights on sustainability governance: who decides, who is consulted, who is told.
Sustainability governance: setting direction people can act on
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1The meeting that finally unblocks sustainability governance
- Confirm that contractual obligations around sustainability governance are understood.
- Prepare how you will respond when sustainability governance is challenged publicly.
- Agree the standard on sustainability governance and confirm it applies to everyone.
- Set the review point at which sustainability governance will be reconsidered.
Session 2Holding the line on sustainability governance when it costs you
- Record the rationale for each significant choice made about sustainability governance.
- Check whether incentives anywhere reward behaviour that undermines sustainability governance.
- Prepare the response for the most likely failure in sustainability governance.
- Recognise publicly one person whose work on sustainability governance went unnoticed.
Sustainability governance: building the bench and letting go
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Building lasting competence in sustainability governance
- Confirm that the people affected by sustainability governance heard it from you first.
- Agree the indicators that will show whether sustainability governance is improving.
- Anticipate the objections sustainability governance will raise and prepare the answers.
- Decide what you will delegate on sustainability governance and what you will not, and say why.
Session 2Building someone who can run sustainability governance without you
- Set out how exceptions to sustainability governance are requested and approved.
- Test the procedure for sustainability governance against a realistic scenario.
- Reduce the variation in how sustainability governance is carried out between teams.
- Record what was learned when sustainability governance did not go as planned.
Sustainability governance: measuring whether leadership actually changed anything
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Applying the standard on sustainability governance to your best performer
- Write down the reasoning behind your position on sustainability governance.
- Close out actions on sustainability governance rather than leaving them open indefinitely.
- Identify which function can quietly block sustainability governance and address it directly.
- Ask the team what they think is wrong with the plan for sustainability governance.
Session 2Getting other functions to support sustainability governance
- Benchmark the organisation's sustainability governance against comparable operations.
- Assess the workload sustainability governance adds and what you will remove to make room.
- Assign responsibility for keeping documentation of sustainability governance current.
- Establish what evidence demonstrates sustainability governance is under control.
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- Supervision & Secretarial Services
- Accredited Certificate of Participation
- Complete Training Kit
- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
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USD1,850
- 5-night stay in a 5-star hotel
- Workshop or Program Participation
- Airport Transfers
- Customized Badge
- Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
- Supervision & Secretarial Services
- Accredited Certificate of Participation
- Complete Training Kit
- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
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