Managing the Social Side of Sustainability

This course addresses the social issues of sustainability, changes in governance, management style, sharing of values, and the profound changes that sustainability brings about with respect to employees.

Develop your skills on social and societal issues by approaching CSR and its frameworks in a truly holistic way, and explore links with environmental issues to make the human element a focal point during the “sustainable transition” of the company!

  • Length
    5 sessions

  • Professionals or
    companies

  • Learning Hours
    3 months (~20 hours)

  • 100% Online

  • Price
    2,640€ including tax
    2,200€ excluding tax

About this Training

Who is the training for?

  • Anyone who wants to master the social principles of sustainability for business, for a current or future position;
  • Human Resources Managers and Managers who wish to gain a deeper understanding of the social issues of CSR and understand their role in the company’s sustainable transition ;
  • Consultants and managers in charge of Sustainable Development/CSR who want to balance their environmental practices with the social aspect of the transition;
  • Actors of social dialogue in companies who wish to acquire a vision of the social stakes of the ecological transition.

What will be the format?

  • The format of the online training is asynchronous and is adaptable to your schedule, including extra elements such as live interactions or webinars.

What are the objectives?

  • Reiterate the importance of a global and systemic approach to sustainability issues within companies, especially the link between environmental and social issues.
  • Apply frameworks such as ISO 26000, human rights and the Decent Work Agenda
  • Understand the importance of social dialogue, quality of work life, inclusiveness, as prerequisites for transition and consider a more political role of the company, on its territory and in society at large.

What are the themes addressed in this training?

  • Integrating equity at the center of the company
  • Practicing responsible and inclusive marketing and communication
  • Fostering gender equality, diversity and inclusion in the workplace
  • Mastering the definition and implementation of an inclusive business model
  • Social sustainability as a business strategy
  • Understanding of international CSR regulatory frameworks
  • Ability to develop a CSR social policy
  • Interpret social sustainability standards, regulations and certifications
  • Exploit statistics and regulations on professional equality
  • Manage financial and non-financial stakeholders
  • Exercise good recruitment practices
  • Create a dialogue with stakeholders, ensure effective social dialogue in governance
  • Maximizing employee potential by promoting a healthy workplace
  • Become familiar with Quality of Work Life (QWL) standards
  • Gain knowledge of health, safety and wellness in the workplace
  • Use skills and knowledge gained for change management and social sustainability, and for new horizons of social sustainability for ESG investor discussions

  • Operational competencies
  • Integrate equity into business
  • Align with duty of care legislation
  • Adopt ESG reporting and frameworks in practice
  • Set goals based on laws and stakeholder expectations while promoting a diverse and egalitarian business model.
  • Encouraging a workforce towards social sustainability
  • A thorough understanding of the ISO 26000 standard
  • Measuring a company’s socio-economic footprint
  • Measuring and quantifying social impacts
  • Prioritizing the Sustainable Development Goals in the company
  • Managing financial and non-financial stakeholders, and taking their expectations into account when addressing social issues
  • Be flexible to changes in governance and management towards an inclusive company

Does your company have specific goals for your sustainable training?

Contact one of our experts to identify your career path and future professional opportunities. Let us help you find the right training path for you.

The advantages of the training course

The contents of the training courses are updated regularly.

The courses are composed of practical cases, debates on real business issues.

From a methodological focus and complementary readings to games, reflection circles and a toolbox,… Everything is designed to understand the sustainable business model and engage the transformation.

The theoretical content and inputs, strategic and operational skills
are all based on science and academic research.

An innovative pedagogy that ensures effective learning

Autonomous learning

Intended for working professionals or those undergoing retraining, our training courses are all designed to offer a pace that is compatible with schedule constraints (whether they are personal or professional). This adaptive learning allows the learner to progress according to his or her previous experience, affinities and curiosity (depending on the level of depth desired), in a learning context firmly anchored in the business world.

Social learning

Social learning makes it possible to group learners around innovative, dynamic and interactive learning methods (webinars, games, think tanks, etc.). This encourages listening, consultation and exchange, transmission and gathering of ideas (even friendships!). Training referents answer questions but everyone can contribute to the explanations. With EcoLearn, you will benefit from free coaching and access to our community.

Action learning

Our learning and pedagogy are resolutely action-oriented. The objective is that our learners develop a complete and systemic mastery of each sustainability topic, both strategic and operational. All of our tools serve to anchor knowledge and to confront the reality of the company and the business. Learners also have access to best practices and tools from our expert speakers and peers.

FAQs

We provide you with additional resources at the end of each module to deepen your knowledge. You can also take our Digilearn training courses to go further.

No, we can train as many people as needed. We have offered training programs for companies ranging from 10 people to several thousand employees.

The courses are developed on the e-learning platform we use: 360Learning. We can either invite your learners on this platform, or provide our content via a SCORM file (for download on your company’s LMS). It is also possible for us to provide the content outside of the LMS, via the Notion application or to detach certain parts of it (pdf, videos and other formats).

By default, all our online content is available in French AND English. Some are already available in other languages (German, etc.). We can translate all of our courses into any language upon request.

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