This training course is split in two modules:
MODULE I - Sustainable Leadership
MODULE II - Sustainable Finance
Each modules is structured and can be taken as a stand-alone training course; however, delegates with will maximise their benefits by taking Module 1 and 2 back-to-back as a 2-week training course.
Module 1: Sustainable Leadership
DAY ONE: SUSTAINABLE LEADERSHIP & THE TRIPLE BOTTOM LINE
- What is a sustainable leader?
- Key competencies of sustainable leaders
- PPP - the triple bottom line: people, planet, profit
- Behaviours of sustainable leaders
- Engaging with and identifying stakeholders
DAY TWO: RESPONSIBILITY & THE NEW NORMAL
- Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
- Cultural Differences with CSR
- Leading by example
- Employer-supported volunteering (ESV)
DAY THREE: COMMUNICATION SKILLS FOR SUSTAINABLE LEADERS
- Identifying and removing the main barriers to communication
- Developing your Emotional Intelligence (EI)
- Active listening skills and asking the right questions
- SOLER Technique for interviewing and meetings
- Future Leaders – Generational Differences
DAY FOUR: MASTERING PROBLEM-SOLVING & DECISION MAKING
- Identify the cause(s) of a problem (CATWOE, repetitive why)
- Using cause-and-effect analysis
- Organise, analyse, and prioritise ideas (affinity diagram & PMI)
- The science of making the decision (Vroom-Jago Decision Model)
- Using force-field analysis to implement decisions
DAY FIVE: CREATIVITY, INNOVATION AND YOUR CAREER
- Understanding creativity
- The science of innovation
- Disruptive innovation
- Your career – using the B-SWOT tool
- Your personal development plan
Module 2: Sustainable Finance
Day Six: Fundamentals of Sustainable Finance
- Principles and foundation of sustainable finance
- Environmental issues and concerns
- Social issues and concerns
- Governance issues and concerns
- Ethical issues and concerns
- Defining organisational scope for sustainable finance
Day Seven: Sustainable Strategic Management
- Concepts of stakeholder value
- The purpose of competitive companies
- Principles and practice in corporate governance
- Redefining competitive business strategy
- Understanding business models and their disruption
- Identifying key success factors
- Using strategy maps to identify key performance indicators
Day Eight: Accounting and Reporting Sustainable Finance
- The traditional financial analysis toolkit
- Conventional measures of stakeholder value
- Selecting the right key performance measures
- Designing internal reports on sustainable finance
- Principles of Integrated Reporting (IR)
Day Nine: Business Investment and Sustainable Finance
- The challenges of sustainable investment
- Scenarios for business model reinvention
- Key decision factors for sustainable financial investment
- Traditional tools of investment appraisal
- Factoring in the environmental and social dimension
- Limitations of conventional investment appraisal methods
Day Ten: Risk and Scope of Sustainable Finance
- Traditional approaches to understanding business risk
- Risk aspects from a sustainable finance perspective
- Sustainable finance developments in banking
- Sustainable finance developments in financial investments
- Financial modelling of risk under sustainable finance conditions
- The way forward in sustainable finance
