How we can help you.
You can secure additional long-term value.
All businesses are capable of creating prosperous and sustainable economies that can better ensure business certainty. This can be achieved by working in partnership with suppliers, team members, customers, government, service providers and society. Effective leadership is key, creating transformational business strategies and practices, as well as stimulating and supporting the wider market. The need to reconcile long-term sustainability with short-term results is important. That’s why we focus on helping to secure a brighter future while delivering immediate value. Good business comes from being a good business, sustainability is all about certainty.
You can receive tailored sustainable business solutions.
Tailored online services enable businesses to understand and adapt: growing market share, achieving profit certainty, enhancing market focus and creating new business opportunities.
The Certo Online Sustainable Management Program is the most comprehensive method for moving forward, and the Virtual Sustainability Manager Service is very effective for businesses needing a dedicated resource - but not a full time employee.
Our cost-effective and time-efficient online training.
Online workshops and presentations, in English, can be arranged anywhere in the world. All workshops and presentations are tailored specific to your market position and your operating parameters. Our approach is to reveal and create business opportunities with insightful and stimulating methodologies, and participants are encouraged to engage in proceedings and take ownership of the solutions. Participants need to take both a bottom-up and top-down approach to become a sustainable business.
Half-day, full-day, 2-3 day workshops can be designed to fit in with your schedule. Online questionnaires are used to measure current sustainable practice amongst your team and within your business. This serves as a benchmark so areas for improvement can be determined and action plans developed.
Once travelling becomes everyday again, when Covid 19 is less of a threat, in-person retreats and workshops can be arranged.
Training has been undertaken in the following industries:
Wholesale Distribution
Manufacturing and Processing
Packaging, Recycling, Waste Management
Energy and Water Utilities
Sports and Leisure
Health and Community Services
Retailing
Central and Local Government
Event Management
The following are examples of services provided, the list is not exhaustive:
- Sustainable management report on your company (can be brief, from just a social communications perspective, and comprehensive, to include how your company operates along the whole value chain).
- Sustainable management comparison report of your company compared to like competitors.
- Best practice sustainable management recommendations for your company.
- Audit of your suppliers, raw material sourcing, manufacture, distribution, packaging, with alternative recommendations.
- Production of a Sustainable Management Policy and Charter specific to your business.
- Production of a Marketing and Communications Plan specific to your sustainability policy.
- *Fixed-term contracting assignments enabling you to have an expert Sustainability Manager working in your business.
Most of the above will require an Internal Sustainability Champion to be appointed within your business as information will be exchanged regularly and this person will be responsible for sharing and implementing ideas and outcomes. *If travel and accommodation costs are covered, we can provide this service in-person within your workplace.
What you will need to focus on.
Your business model, as it must embrace sustainability.
All businesses are capable of creating prosperous and sustainable economies. This can be achieved by working in partnership with suppliers, team members, customers, government, service providers and society. Effective leadership is key, creating transformational business strategies and practices, as well as stimulating and supporting the wider market. The need to reconcile long-term sustainability with short-term results is important. That’s why we focus on helping to secure a brighter future while delivering immediate value.
Your costs, as they will be proportional to your risks and opportunities.
The cost of achieving sustainable practice depends on the size and complexity of your business, in particular how many products and services you provide. Sustainability is not about loading extra costs into your business, it is about using the same budgets more efficiently and sustainably when feasible. This leads to lower operating costs, lower risks, lower stock redundancies and increased future-proofed revenues. However, you may (and most likely) incur other business costs in achieving your sustainability goals, such as: changes to technology used - relating to energy and water use, like transport, lighting, heating and motors, and changes to materials used and products purchased.
Your triple bottom line, as this looks beyond just profits.
Business sustainability is often defined as managing the triple bottom line – a process by which companies manage their financial, social and environmental risks, obligations and opportunities (sometimes referred to as profits, people and planet). When businesses focus on securing future certainty they are driven by sustainable values. Businesses can better survive threats, overcome weaknesses and capture opportunities if they are connected to healthy economic, social and environmental systems. These businesses create economic value and contribute to healthy ecosystems and strong communities.
Your business practice, as this will adapt to International Best Practices.
Corporate sustainability requires businesses to adhere to the principles of sustainable development. According to the World Council for Economic Development (WCED), sustainable development is “meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.” So, for a business to be sustainable, it must address important issues at the macro level, such as: economic efficiency (innovation, prosperity, productivity), social equity (poverty, community, health and wellness, human rights) and environmental accountability (climate change, land use, biodiversity).
Your business culture, as everyone will need to embrace change.
Businesses need to embrace change management principles in order to transition from low to high sustainable work strategies and practices. To establish sustainable practices and achieve a leading position there are three main parts of the value chain we help businesses focus on – People, Operations and Products:
PEOPLE: Establishing the right ethics and behaviour is key to for success. Businesses that are sustainable have been shown to attract and retain employees more easily and experience less financial and reputation risk, and are also more innovative and adaptive to their environments.
OPERATIONS: Efficient management of energy, water, waste and emissions is a fundamental requirement for a sustainable business. Systematic analysis of the environmental and social impacts of the products and services used and sold leads to better understanding business sustainability. Useful, reliable and timely data underpins the operations and reporting needed to embed resource efficiency into a business’s culture and help mitigate risks.
PRODUCTS: The production, distribution and retailing of goods reveals the most obvious insights into how sustainable a business is perceived by customers and stakeholders. Society as a whole, corporate customers and local/central governments are all demanding more product stewardship and sustainability management from suppliers. Product materials used and sold should ideally be sustainable, from source to end of life, and prove a circular economy functions correctly.
