Embedding sustainability into the organization’s systems, practices and culture requires a willingness to problem-solve and collaborate in unexpected ways. We help you foster an organization that is adaptable, engaged, and able to implement sustainable practices over time.
Intended Results
While working with CircadiaOne to embed sustainability, you will develop internal processes for:
- Fostering wide-spread commitment to your organization’s goals, and renewal of organizational culture through a shared understanding of sustainability and organizational purpose
- Putting in place mechanisms for growing innovation, and harvesting new ideas over time from throughout the organization
- Integrating sustainability into individual behavior and decision-making, and increasing personal commitment to sustainability
- Creating and using tools for tracking and measuring performance toward goals
- Integrating key competencies for maintaining high environmental and social performance into your compensation structure
- Dissolving existing barriers to your sustainability initiative across divisions or departments
- Creating mechanisms for midcourse corrections to strategies and action plans
- Developing external stakeholder engagement and strong community partnerships.
Our Approach
We partner with you to tailor an approach that makes sense for your organization based on the results from Assess, Discover, and Strategize, and use a wide array of tools and strategies that target the results you are after. For example, we may partner with you to:
1) Define and develop behaviors, systems and practices that infuse your organizational culture and support your strategic change
- Translate your goals, strategies, and metrics into an action plan
- Integrate organizational goals into daily decision-making, habits, and mindset
- Facilitate project management by clarifying roles and responsibilities, developing timelines, allocating resources, and defining other operational procedures for successful projects
2) Diminish resistance to change by conducting cross-departmental conversations, clarify values, provide training or healthy and playful competitions, conducting focus groups or by using other change management processes
3) Inspire passion by encouraging employees to embrace sustainability practices and knowledge beyond the workplace
4) Engage your supply chain by create a set of agreements and shared practices with your suppliers that support your organizational sustainability
5) Select the most meaningful metrics to establish targets and measure progress toward goals. The possibilities of what could be measured are vast, and metrics could range from ROI to tons of carbon emissions to level of workforce engagement.
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