Don't leave sustainability in the board room. Empower employees everywhere to make a difference.
Our Philosophy Says It All...
We believe some of the best ideas for achieving sustainability come from within your own organisation. We call this a culture of “Intrapreneurship.”
To achieve your sustainability targets, you need every single employee to live & breathe them. To find, address, and fix issues that aren’t visible, Net Zero needs to become a collective responsibility.
The first step is to start engaging and utilizing your employees skills.
Nobody knows your business and it’s values better than your people. Gallup reports that businesses who listen to employee ideas are more profitable and experience lower staff turnover. Employee ideas are the key to unlocking the full potential in both your business and your people.
What is this telling us? Culture is vital.
Customers want to buy from sustainable brands, and employees want to work for sustainable companies. Annual reports and company website pages aren’t enough. It’s important to share your progress toward sustainability through a regular flow of sustainability ideas and stories. We can show you how to do this effectively through change management, which we base around the key factors of our philosophy.
We believe that focused & effective change management is key to maximising your sustainability projects.
Change management is the discipline that guides how we prepare, equip and support business to successfully adopt change in order to drive organisational success and outcomes in sustainability.
The proof is in the data. Prosci’s ‘Best Practices in Change Management’ research consistently shows that initiatives with excellent change management are six times more likely to meet objectives than those with poor change management.
The sustainability drive within the business has been mainly focused on the integration of new technology and new ways of working, however, much less attention has been given to the ‘soft skills’ required of facilitating the change process that is nessasery for the successful adoption of these new ideas and methodologies.
Change management addresses the different impacts change has on people.
Sustainability projects and initiatives can have a significant impact on the way individual people do their work on a day-to-day basis. Change can impact processes, systems, tools, job roles, workflows, mindsets, behaviours and more.
By working within an organisation to create a culture of change and innovation, new thinking and ideas are given space to develop and new technology and methodology are more easily accepted with less resistance as a result, the success of meeting the sustainability targets is increased.
We believe that by acting as a conduit between technical engineering solutions and people-centred soft skills, we increase chances of success.
Our philosophy supports the idea that hearts and minds often need to be brought together. You can achieve a united vision towards sustainability through connecting your people with outsourced specialists in meaningful, empathetic ways. This brings understanding and collaboration, which in turn increases your People-Dependent Return On Investment.
What is People-Dependent Return on Investment (ROI) and why is it important?
ROI indicates the financial value add of each employee against the amount of finance spent on them. When you manage to increase your ROI, your employees are helping you increase profit. But the only way to increase ROI is to increase your employees drive, thrive, and innovation levels.
Organisations undertake initiatives to capitalize on an opportunity, solve a problem, or improve performance. You can achieve some of the desired outcomes simply by installing the solution. However, without engaging a change management process, it is difficult to realize the full ROI.
If we do our change management process well, it can drive People-Dependent Return On Investment.
However, much of the benefit of ROI is tied to people changing the way they do their jobs. this is the “adoption contribution” of the project—the percentage of project benefits that depend on people changing their day-to-day work.
Applying change management prepares, equips and supports people, so they can successfully change how they do their jobs.
This enables you to capture the adoption contribution and people-dependent portion of the project’s return on investment (ROI).
We believe that by creating workshops where ideas can be discovered and explored, we can unlock creative and often inexpensive ideas that can make a big difference.
By engaging with all departments across the organisation, many small and often overlooked changes can be explored and actioned. This can lead to reduced consumption that contributes to the carbon footprint.