Certificate in Corporate Sustainability Management Training Course

Why Select this Training Course?

Understanding sustainability is an important part of making decisions in today’s world. Corporations in this modern world must respond swiftly by creating initiatives and processes that promote sustainability. Rcademy has designed this course to help you understand basic and advanced concepts of corporate sustainability management and develop important business strategies for your organization and business.

What is corporate sustainability training?

In simple terms, it is where the business policies and practices meet sustainability. It usually involves managing a corporation’s impact on crucial points such as the planet, people, and profits. The training aims to ensure that the aspects of sustainability – people, planet, and profits – coexist and do better in the corporate world.

What does a corporate sustainability manager do?

Their main roles involve creating and implementing changes that will positively impact the world and humankind. They are tasked with ensuring policies are enforced in various domains that can bring sustainability to the future and current generations. Such managers are crucial to the management of the science behind compliance with legislation, sustenance efforts, and stakeholders’ public relationship. They are also tasked with enlightening the public and explaining sustainable management concepts.

Being part of the Certificate in Corporate Sustainability Management Training Course by Rcademy will help you critically examine the sustainability-based relationship in the corporate world among regulators, peers, entities, and the public. The main result of such a process is to ensure that you can improve these relationships and sustainability outcomes. This course will enable you to assess how the corporate world communicates its sustainability efforts and successfully manages its reputational risks.

This Rcademy course will merge the knowledge of environmental management and CSR (corporate social responsibility) fields and thoroughly examine the existing connections in society, business, and the natural environment. You will have a strong foundation and deep understanding of the principles, practices, and methodologies used in corporate sustainability.

Who Should Attend?

The Certificate in Corporate Sustainability Management Training Course by Rcademy is ideal for:

• Environmental Consultant
• Clean energy specialist
• Environmental compliance engineer
• Sustainability and ESG communication officer
• Business relationship officer
• Environmental analyst
• Senior leaders and executives
• Philanthropists
• Public and investor relations professionals
• Community activists
• Entrepreneurs
• Corporate responsibility leaders
• Legal professionals
• Communication experts

What are the Course Objectives?

The objectives of the Certificate in Corporate Sustainability Management Training Course by Rcademy are to enable participants to:

• Solve problems analytically
• Gather experience in identifying, prioritizing, and evaluating triple-bottom-line issues
• Understand time management and organizational skills
• Be a team leader who can work efficiently with others
• Critically evaluate the sustainability standing of any institution and create a program to improve it
• Collect, analyze, and competently interpret data from different situations by using qualitative and quantitative methods
• Work in various disciplines to link experience and knowledge from a wide range of understanding gathered from research to explain the complex relationship between the natural environment, business, humans, social pressure, and the effective management of the economy
• Develop and recommend sustainable solutions to the existing problems in development and the environment with the consideration of broader social, economic, political, and environmental context and the implications of ethics in trying to develop sustainable solutions
• Effectively communicate complex ideas, knowledge, and persuasive arguments to professionals using written digital, oral, or visual means
• Design and develop corporate sustainability policies using modern methods, tools, and techniques for analyzing, monitoring, and deploying real-world situations in corporate responsibility

How will this course be presented?

This Rcademy course aims to provide participants with rigorous intellectual and practical experience. The course will utilize supportive, stimulating, and enjoyable methods to increase the learning capability of the participants. Various methods, such as videos, practical workshops, group discussions, individual projects, formal lectures, and exercises, will facilitate the course. Rcademy understands that this is a highly practical course and, therefore, utilizes experienced facilitators in both teaching and their domain area.

What are the Topics Covered in this Course?

Module 1: Ethical Marketing and Sustainability

• Creating a long-lasting trust between customer and stakeholders groups
• Tools and Techniques of Social and ethical marketing
• Corporate image maintenance using social marketing strategies
• Changing customer’s perspectives and enhancing sustainability
• Handling criticism of marketing strategies from stakeholders
• Ethical and social marketing opportunities and Challenges

Module 2: Corporate Sustainability

• Guiding Principles, concepts, and theoretical framework for corporate sustainability
• Social and governance tools
• Implementing corporate sustainability strategy: challenges and issues
• Globalization, corporate activities, and Sustainability in the Context of Stakeholders
• Law, ethics, and Legislation in corporate sustainability
• Concepts used in sustainability management
• Business Operations and Analysis from a corporate sustainability perspective
• Strategic business planning: social, ethical and environmental considerations

Module 3: Understanding the Challenges Facing Sustainability

• Introduction to challenges facing sustainability
• Short-termism and its long-term consequences
• The sustainable development goals and their importance to the corporate world
• Understanding the tragedy of the commons
• Industrial ecology
• The Role of gender equality in corporate sustainability
• A research-based approach to the development of a sustainability mindset
• Understanding corporate evolution

Module 4: Assessing the strategic opportunities

• Defining the business case for Sustainability
• Creating a sustainable enterprise from Scratch
• Impact assessment of business
• Social enterprise: definitions and examples
• Circular economy
• Cross-sector partnerships
• Impact investing
• Social Impact and employee preferences
• Responsibly-innovative startups

Module 5: Corporate-Level Challenges to Sustainability

• Defining a sustainable enterprise
• Corporate governance
• Responsible leadership
• The stakeholder-based view of the corporate world
• Business ethics and Sustainability
• International implementation of sustainability
• The shareholder-stakeholder debate
• Roundtable on the nature of the corporate sustainability

Module 6: Transitioning Sustainability Functions Across Corporate Departments

• Accounting and controlling
• Sustainable corporate growth
• Communicating sustainability plans with others
• Educating employees on sustainability plans
• Controlling strategic sustainability plans

Module 7: Seizing the Strategic Opportunity

• How to effectively manage strategic sustainability plans incorporates
• Institutionalizing sustainability
• The supply chain is the main problem in sustainability
• Integrating Sustainability in corporate strategy
• Supply chain case study

Module 8: Managing Sustainability

• Research and marketing innovation
• HR strategy and management
• Research and development: a framework
• Integrating Sustainability into the corporate world
• Handling developments in sustainability
• Updating strategic plans