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Responsible Business EssentialsCourse Introduction

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• Direct cost and efficiency savings

• Establish your business as a preferred supplier

• Win and retain consumer and business customers

• Access new markets and innovation

• Motivated and committed workforce

• Enhanced brand and reputation

• Create a robust, sustainable business

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• A complete package – six building blocks of a robust responsible business strategy

• Practical & interactive learning in a facilitated environment

• Opportunity to gain insights first hand from businesses that have implemented effective strategies

• Empowering – practical tools, flexible and adaptable to your business

• Share perspectives and discuss challenges with your peers

The course

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• Understood the business benefits

• Scoped out what responsibility means for your company

• Learned from other companies’ examples

• Practical techniques for gaining internal buy in from top to bottom

• The tools and resources to develop your own action plan

• Learned how you can benchmark your operations against other, similar businesses.

By the end of this course you will have:

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Transforming businesstransforming communities

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Responsible Business EssentialsEngaging your employees through responsible business

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Employee Engagement - Objectives

• Understand engaging people

• How responsible business practice can help engage people

• Share different approaches

• Give you frameworks and ideas

• Identify practical actions and opportunities to improve engagement and create an effective, motivated workforce

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Murky and Elusive

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Being Engaged?

• What does it mean?

• How does it show itself?

• Why is it important?

• What are the business drivers?

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Employee Engagement

“Engagement is about creating opportunities for employees to connect with their colleagues, managers and wider organisation. It is also about creating an environment where employees are motivated to want to connect with their work and really care about doing a good job...It is a concept that places flexibility, change and continuous improvement at the heart of what it means to be an employee and an employer in a twenty-first century workplace.”

Macleod Report: Professor Katie Truss

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Levels of Engagement

Very Engaged

DisengagedSome Engagement- Almost engaged, honeymooners and crash and burners

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Motivate Mobilise Measure

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What motivates people?

Daniel Pink’s Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc

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BREAK

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Business Case Study

Kevin RhoneCorporate Social Responsibility Manager

Seddon

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Motivate Mobilise Measure

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Using our framework of responsible business, we help our members to integrate responsible practices into their day-to-day operations, which means: • Demonstrating clear leadership, governance and values and integrating responsible business practices across all business operations.

• Developing products and services with improved social and environmental impacts, and positively influencing customers’ behaviour.

• Developing employees and the future workforce to build successful working lives.

What is Responsible Business?

Our Framework

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• Investing in the communities in which the business operates and those communities in greatest need.

• Manage social, environmental, and economic impacts in your supply chain

• Taking action to reduce climate change and prepare for a low carbon economy.

• Working with others in collaboration to create change that benefits both business and society.

What is Responsible Business?

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Your Challenges

Where do you want to

be?

What do you want to

achieve?Enablers

Obstacles

Where are you now?

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Motivate Mobilise Measure

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Spheres of Influence

Organisation

Team

Me

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Responsible Business Essentials

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