Course description
Strategic Approaches to Environmental, Social and Governance Programme - CMI Level 7
This programme will provide an overview of both the global and UK ESG landscapes, key frameworks, and best practices. Focusing on the business reality of prioritising where to invest, Participants will consider why this might be important and the potential benefits/implications from both a risk, as well as a growth perspective.
This course is designed to position participants to gain buy-in for ESG initiatives from board-level peers.
Participants will consider what strong ESG governance looks like and best practices to create a clear ESG plan, with integrated measurement, reporting and communication plans. The programme will help Participants to ensure that this is aligned against the expected impact on the organisation.
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Suitability - Who should attend?
This course is aimed at senior business leaders, Directors, C-suite and board members of Organisations who wish to understand in more detail the ESG landscape, the impact on their own organisations and how to engage peers with the ESG conversation.
Is this course right for you?
- Understand Global and UK ESG landscapes, key frameworks and regulations
- Assess potential ESG impacts
- Learn best practices and examples of ESG focus
Outcome / Qualification etc.
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this programme, Participants will:
- Gain an understanding of the global and UK ESG landscapes, key frameworks and regulations and the impact on organisations
- Possess the ability to assess potential ESG impacts (risks and opportunities) for your own organisation
- Hold an appreciation of what strong ESG governance looks like, including best practices and examples of ESG focus and measuring impact
- Have developed the knowledge of a framework for analysing an organisation’s ESG risks and opportunities, and the potential materiality of the impact on that organisation
- Have the ability to create an ESG plan, with integrated measurement, reporting and communication plan
Training Course Content
Session 1
Exploring ESG
Key themes include:
- Introduction to ESG
- Differentiating between traditional corporate social responsibility efforts and modern embedded sustainability
- Understanding global ESG commitments: The EU Green Deal, the Paris Agreement, COP26
- ESG frameworks, regulation, measurement and reporting requirements
- Stakeholders and the business case for ESG at your own organisation
Session 2
Community, Engagement, and Impact
Key themes include:
- A deep dive into environmental impact and sustainability
- Social impact
- Defining, understanding and engaging ‘community’
- The impact of your supply chain and supplier relations
- The employee experience and engagement
- The business case for diversity and inclusion and what this means for your company
Session 3
Leading, Measuring and Embedding change
Key themes include:
- Good governance
- ESG data, tracking and measurement
- Third party verification to demonstrate ESG commitment
- Establishing goals and defining strategy
- Influencing, engaging and dealing with cynics
- Engaging with stakeholders
- ESG reporting & best practices for ESG communications
- Changing culture and embedding change through Governance
Course delivery details
Our Virtual Classroom
We strive to create a positive and lasting impact through the delivery of our courses, which is why all our sessions are structured around taught theory, interactivity and shared experiences from the real world. Our online training courses are designed to create the optimum learning experience for the virtual environment. Our training is highly interactive; our tutors make regular use of whiteboard, annotate, polls and other types of interactive software to enhance the learning experience.
In-House Training
Our in-house service delivers tailored training solutions to assist businesses in achieving their goals. Unlike our open courses, our in-house offering provides completely customisable content that is built with your guidance to facilitate anything from large transformational projects to individual learner journeys.
Your In-House Training Options
Our dedicated bespoke account management team will work with you to ensure that the solution you and your business choose allows for the optimal learning experience.
- Off-the-shelf, existing programmes delivered privately for you and your team
- Part-tailored solutions using various elements of our existing programmes to create a unique programme aligned to your organisational needs
- Bespoke built programmes, created and designed entirely to meet your specific requirements and customised to your business’ goals
Why choose In Professional Development
Delivered training to over 10,000 organisations
92% of delegates rate our courses as 5 star
Created over 2,500 CMI registrations
Reviews
Average rating 5
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Top 10 Winner - 2024
We're delighted to announce that In Professional Development is a winner in our Top 10 ESG Courses 2024 category.
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Expenses
Course Price
- Virtual Classroom: £1,600 +VAT
- In-House Training: Price on Enquiry
Continuing Studies
Following completion of the Strategic Approaches to Environmental, Social and Governance Programme, learners can opt to continue their studies by completing a CMI Level 7 Award in Strategic Management and Leadership Practice. This qualification is designed for practising middle managers and leaders at operations, division, departmental or specialist level, who are typically accountable to a senior manager or business owner.
Learners are required to complete one 4,000-4,500 word written assignment. Units to be completed include:
- 705: Leading Strategic Change
Benefits of completing the qualification include:
For learners:
- Enables learners to develop the professionalism to deliver impact and behave ethically.
- Enables learners to understand the scope, context and complexity of leading strategic change.
- Provides the opportunity to demonstrate a commitment to continual learning and development.
- Accredited management and leadership qualification and certificate on completion.
For organisations:
- Learners will build on their strategic management and leadership skills to focus on the requirements of embedding the organisation’s strategy.
- Provides skills and behaviours to drive core business activities.
- Optimises an organisation’s ability to remain competitive, react to the needs and expectations of stakeholders and respond to changing national and international markets.
Learners also receive:
- Targeted tutorials run by our CMI-qualified tutors, to help learners complete the assignment writing phase.
- Dedicated support from the Quality Assurance Team here at In Professional Development, including regular CMI learner drop-in sessions.
- Access to a wealth of CMI online learning resources through their Management Direct website.
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Top 10 Awards
Top 10 Winner - 2024
We're delighted to announce that In Professional Development is a winner in our Top 10 ESG Courses 2024 category.
Each year, we select the Top 10 most popular courses on our site in some of the most popular categories to make it easier for our users to find the right course for them - so you can book with confidence.
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