Employee engagement - Carbon Smart

Engagement and training

Our engagement and training services include:

Engagement and behaviour change

We work with clients to help them understand why sustainability initiatives have not captured staff, and recognise how the barriers to uptake and behaviour change can be overcome. We help them to design and run communication and engagement programmes to deliver the sought after behaviours.

Clients have worked with Carbon Smart to:

Map the barriers to a particular group of environmental behaviours and design a programme to reduce the effect of these barriers across UK operations
Facilitate a series of workshops for stakeholders with conflicting objectives on proposed changes to UK government corporate sustainability reporting guidelines concluding with clear consensus
Develop a communication programme to ensure higher staff adoption of pro-energy efficient behaviour in preparation for ISO audits
Equip sustainability teams with the skills to empower change across organizations faced with poor waste performance

Find out about our employee engagement guide ‘Empower Change’

Our view

Employees need to be excited about your sustainability programme for it to succeed. Poorly presented sustainability initiatives fall flat, or at worst, undo the value of all the work behind them.

So often in the world of sustainability, it falls to an engineer to communicate a particular sustainability measure – with all the jargon that implies – losing the audience along the way (and it’s just as bad when an untrained person tries to explain how that new boiler works).

Our clients trust Carbon Smart to find a positive focal point that the different parts of their organisation can gather around to move forward.

Training and capacity building

We provide a full suite of face to face, distance and online training.

Clients have worked with Carbon Smart to:

Train their staff in management system implementation and auditing
Develop and roll out an e-learning syllabus to unify the approach to sustainability across their organisation
Remotely train their staff around the world in their new sustainability reporting system
Train sales staff about using sustainability topics to engage with customers

Our view

Stepping up to the plate of sustainability requires getting cleverer – if it didn’t, organisations would be doing it anyway. We need to build the capacity of our people on topics from sustainability reporting to behaviour change.

Rarely do organisations get the opportunity to communicate with their staff about a more positive issue than sustainability.

Our clients come to us for lively, interactive training sessions based on a firm understanding of the realities of their work, where staff see the value of the learning outcomes before they happen, and come away happy that the outcomes have been delivered.