For an organization to gain the significant benefits from sustainability it is, without doubt, reliant on its staff. An engaged workforce will catalyze sustainability throughout the organization as well as reap its benefits. However, a workforce that is not engaged in sustainability will be a major stumbling block to an organisation's efficiency and profitability.
So, how will you ensure you have engaged employees? And how can such a workforce drive sustainability into the heart of an organization for a significant operational benefit?
The challenges, experiences and knowledge on this table will cover all stages of an organization's journey towards an engaged workforce: How to increase low carbon jobs to recruiting credible sustainability professionals; How to engage staff across all departments - finance to marketing, operations to sales, etc.; How to embed sustainability into a business and what rewards can help the process.
Please share your thoughts below in the comments section.
Here are a few resources on 2degrees that might help get the conversation flowing.
Employee Engagement - What would you like to know - Geoff McDonald's forum.
Building the employee engagement business case - by John Grant
The emergence of the Chief Sustainability Officer. The next step for sustainability - webinar recording.
Summit Table D - Employee Engagement
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