Organisation Sustainability Assessment CSR /Sustainability Indicator Development Stakeholder Engagement & Consultation CSR/Sustainability Planning Preparation for Sustainability Reporting Sustainability Training 1-2day Short Courses (for businesses, universities and schools)
- Community / Organisation Sustainability Indicator Development
- Navigating Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies
- Introduction to Systems Thinking
- AMOEBA – Organisational Cultural Change
2-day Corporate CSR/Sustainability Training 3-Day AtKisson Accelerator Intensive (under ISIS Academy) Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) Training Introduction to the Concepts and Practice of ESD Advanced ESD Skills Training Thematic ESD Curriculum Integration Becoming a Compass School - A Whole School Approach to Sustainability Education Other Services Strategic Planning Support Meeting Design and Facilitation
CSR/Sustainability Consulting (back) Organisation Sustainability Assessment
What defines a sustainable company, organization or community? And how do you know whether you are there are not, and/or how far you must go to get there? Through the use of the AtKisson 360-degree Sustainability Compass Assessment tool, we can help your company or organisation thoroughly evaluate a program, policy, investment opportunity, organization, or company to determine the extent to which it contributes to sustainability, and is sustainable given the current global risk and opportunities. We base our assessments on the AtKisson Sustainability Compass Assessment tool, to ensure that the organization is looking at sustainable development from a whole system perspective. We can also design and perform an assessment that is tailored to a company or organisation’s own specifications.
Through this assessment and evaluation, we give your organisation a clear picture of where you stand currently in relation to your environmental, economic, social and internal wellbeing sustainability situation. And we can provide the right advice as to how to create positive whole system change in the direction of sustainability. By measuring your sustainability goals and performance against our benchmarking framework, your company will better understand how your values and priorities are likely to stack up against those of your environmental stakeholders. As well, you will identify your company's strengths, gaps, areas of opportunity and potential new approaches to corporate environmental responsibility. This will lead to opportunities for increasing environmental stewardship and resource efficiency, improving your stakeholder relations and public image, and reducing the risk of corporate liability. (back)
CSR /Sustainability Indicator Development
There is a common saying in corporate sustainability circles these days that states, “if you can’t measure it, you can’t change it.” So, how sustainable is your company, organisation or community? Are you able to accurately measure your CSR programme’s effect on the company’s bottom line, and are those measures linked to company policy, operations, products and services? We can assist you with the selection, research and presentation of CSR and/or Sustainability metrics from beginning to end. As a long-standing Senior Associate of AtKisson Group, one of the world's most experienced consultancies in this field, we have helped to develop and put into practice an indicator framework and process that has become an international standard and model.
We have extensive experience in data development, analysis, and interpretation, in every key area of sustainability -- environment, economy, social and health/wellbeing issues. We are experts at framing a sustainability indicator selection process, which involves balancing the needs of technical rigor, generalist understanding, public participation, and popular communication. And, we can help you ensure that your indicators are linked to your action programs, so that what you measure helps you achieve what you envision to achieve. We will also assist you with how to manage this data for continuous monitoring and assessment that leads to proactive decision-making. (back)
Stakeholder Engagement
CSR and sustainable development will vary with the place, the context and the industry involved, and will change over time. The only way for a company to properly define its CSR and/or sustainability is through engagement and consultation with its stakeholders, both internal and external. Engaging your key stakeholders is the best way to get an “outside the box” view of your operations, and can also boost your credentials as a responsible organization/company. It is the interaction between the stakeholders and the company that should set the sustainability priorities for the company.
Our process helps you to first identify and prioritise your stakeholders using a structured evaluation methodology. We then consult with those stakeholders who you feel are important to listen to. We follow this up with an analysis and report to you evaluating and reviewing stakeholder concerns, issues and priorities. Our process ends with communications back to stakeholders which can often be seen as the first part of an ongoing dialogue. As a third-party facilitator, we can help you build trust among employees, suppliers, customers, and community members. (back)
CSR/Sustainability Planning
Planning is thinking about action in the long-term. The AtKisson Accelerator suite of tools offers you a comprehensive solution for CSR and/or sustainability planning. For cities, communities and organisations, we can help you develop new sustainability plans, or help you integrate sustainability thinking into your comprehensive planning efforts. For communities, companies and other large institutions, we can help you develop sustainability metrics, lay out realistic goals and timelines, identify places to make self-sustaining system change and how to make that change, and think through everything from logistics to cultural change. Using our proven tools and methods, we’ll create a strategic plan that aligns your core values with your financial bottom line. (back)
Preparation of Sustainability Reporting
True benefits of sustainability emerge when businesses report to the public on their initiatives to be good corporate citizens. Transparency about the sustainability of organizational activities is of interest to a diverse range of stakeholders, including business, labor, non-governmental organizations, investors, accountancy and others. We can assist your team in developing an engaging and accurate report of your organisation’s overall progress towards sustainability in accordance with the AtKisson Sustainability Compass, the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and other key sector guidelines. Either model (or both) provides a credible framework for reporting on an organization’s economic, environmental, and social performance, which can be used by organizations of any size, sector, or location. Our report preparation approach and methodology is distinguished by its clarity, depth and engagement factor with key stakeholders and target readers of your report.(back)
Sustainability Training 1-2day Short Courses (for businesses, universities and schools) Systainability Asia conducts 1-2 day ‘in-house’ and open public training courses on various aspect of sustainable development, including the in’s and out’s of indicator develop, systems thinking as an approach for understanding complex issues and where and how to makes positive, long-lasting system change, and how to increase the "adoptability" of new ideas, speed their spread, and reduce obstacles to change. (back)
- Community / Organisation Sustainability Indicators
- Navigating Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies
- Introduction to Systems Thinking
- AMOEBA – Organisation and Cultural Change
2-day Corporate Sustainability Training
The aim of this 2-day practical, hands-on workshop is to integrate concepts and practical solutions that can be applied to transform business performance towards sustainability. This workshop’s focus is on trying to find your answer to the question: “where and how to begin a coherent, gradual transition towards a holistic sustainable company in all aspects, economic, social, environment and wellbeing areas? During this training course, we will review various approaches in the areas of sustainability and social responsibility. In particular, we emphasize the difference in approaches to sustainability of longer-term company growth and the sustainability of world resources, and how the interdependencies between these two types of sustainability. Many examples and cases are provided of companies achieving such a successful transition and the application of particular sustainability scenarios for various business sectors. Participants will learn many of the latest techniques from the leading edge of sustainability/CSR practice in business. (back)
3-Day AtKisson Accelerator Intensive (under ISIS Academy)
Over three days, participants in this workshop will receive a high-intensity, hands-on introduction to the complete AtKisson ISIS Accelerator toolkit, both theory and practice. We will introduce key concepts, use creative presentation techniques, engage participants in interactive simulations, and guide all through structured, collaborative thinking processes. We also cover in detail the best case studies from our global practice — failures as well as successes. (Fortunately, the successes far outnumber the failures ... but one learns from failure.) Attendees of the AtKisson intensive training will receive an individual license for the use of the ACCELERATOR. Organizations sending two or more attendees will be eligible for a discount on an organizational license. Those wishing to purchase a full use license will receive additional material, communications and network support to be elaborated on at the workshop. (back)
Education For Sustainable Development (ESD) Consulting and Training Services
Basic ESD Training
This introductory 2-3 day training course is aimed at increasing the understanding and practice of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD). It has been designed for teachers, education practitioners, administrators and policy makers. The content of the workshop is focused on the practice of ESD, particularly with regards to how to effectively teach and engage students in developing an understanding of sustainability issues from differing perspectives, and transferring to them the necessary knowledge and skills they will require to create a sustainable society. Moreover, emphasis is put on how an educator goes about effectively getting students to explore their own values and beliefs with regards to the world and what factors influence what we value and believe, a crucial aspect to successfully navigating sustainable development as “sustainable people”. (back)
Advanced ESD Skills Training
The aim of this advanced 3- day ESD training workshop is to assist EE/ESD practitioners, educators and change agents to effectively implement ESD in formal and non-formal education in relation to national policy and plans for ESD. During the workshop, participants will get first-hand experience in practical application of ESD methodologies and multi-stakeholder engagement tools, including envisioning/futures thinking, systems thinking and community investigation techniques. On the last day, participants will receive case studies of practical application of ESD in community and school context from Southeast Asia and the international community, and will get practical knowledge, guidance and experience in developing and ESD assessment indicators for guiding strategy and decision making. (back)
Thematic ESD Curriculum Integration
This 2-3 day workshop is designed to assist teachers, teacher educators, administrators and general education practitioners in reorienting education programmes to address sustainability. In the workshop we will present what knowledge, issues, perspectives, skills and values are needed to holistically address sustainability in our education systems and schools and how this content can be effectively incorporated into different subject areas, such as science, social studies, art, language, etc. Hands-on activities and application allow participants to apply what they have learned in preparing a lesson or unit plan. (back)
Becoming a Compass School - A Whole School Approach to Sustainability Education
IN the shift to a more sustainable world, education is one of the most critical factors. But what matters most is process; i.e. “how we educate”, if we want education to contribute to the development of active global citizens who will practice sustainable lifestyles. Thus, the most effective sustainability education occurs in schools that promote and maintain sustainable practices through the participation of pupils in collaborative school cultures that promote sustainable practice in every aspect of the school’s operations, teaching, decision-making and relationships. This ‘whole school approach’ to sustainability education means working to make the educational institution a microcosm of the emerging sustainable society, rather than of the unsustainable society.
In this Intensive 5-day workshop, we use the AtKisson Sustainability Compass and other Accelerator tools in conjunction with a host of other tested frameworks and approaches to help teachers, educators, researchers and administrators to fully understand the ‘whole school approach’ concept, theory and practice. At the heart of this course is practical application of the materials so that participants can begin their journey towards being a sustainable school. We call these schools that use the AtKisson "Compass of Sustainability" as a framing or support tool in sustainability planning, operations, and curriculum, "Compass Schools". The Program makes available discounted educational licenses to the AtKisson "Accelerator" toolkit, offers discounted or subsidized training opportunities, and facilitates interaction among schools using the tools. (back)
Other Services Strategic Planning Support
We can help frame your vision, your theory of your change, your goals and objectives, and the measures and targets you will use to assess your progress. We have been consultants with the University of New South Wales’ Faculty of the Built Environment (FBE) community engagement strategic planning process, having coached them on the use of the Compass of Sustainability, ISIS framework and StrateSphere to develop their 5 year Strategic Plan, and the ASEAN Secretariat, having been the primary consultant for the review of the ASEAN Environmental Education Action Plan 2000-2005 and the development of its successor plan (AEEAP 2006-2010). (back)
