Sustainability Workshop Material
The Business Shaping Workshop Series aims to help small and medium businesses embed green and sustainable practices to increase revenue, reduce costs, enhance reputation and achieve competitive advantage in their market. |
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Branding, Marketing, Communication and Events
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The Sustainable Brand and Marketing workshop is designed to provide businesses with insights and procedures for creating green and sustainable brands and leveraging these into the market to increase sales and reputation. |
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The Engaging stakeholders on your sustainability journey workshop is designed to provide businesses with insights and procedures for leveraging their sustainability activities amongst their key stakeholders and target market, to increase sales and reputation. |
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The Creating Sustainable Events workshop is designed to provide businesses with insights and procedures for creating and managing green and sustainable events; from the small events such as board meetings, to larger public events such as international conferences & networking events. |
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Children's and Youth Education
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Sustainability for Kids is a one and a half to two hour interactive presentation which allows primary school children to learn and grasp the concept of sustainability, what it means to them and what they can do. |
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Executive Briefings
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The Sustainability and the Future of Business briefing explores how sustainability can be a strategic driver for businesses. Moving from risk and compliance, sustainability will be the source of innovation and competitive advantage. Those businesses that best understand the emerging risks and opportunities and are able to translate that into practical implementation strategies will be the winners in the emerging new economy. |
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The World Economic Forum Briefing - Redefining business value using sustainability, explores how the World Economic Forum and member companies are utilising sustainability to re-define business value and related business models. Many leading international companies have found that this project has transformed the way the view sustainability and realised it can fundamentally shift their business model and can create significant new business opportunities. |
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Business Workshops
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The Carbon Price - Business Imperative workshop explores the risks and opportunities to your business of a carbon price and discusses the range of implications to business and values chains. It will examine the a range of potential responses and help identify areas of opportunity that can help businesses build resilience and also help identify new business opportunities. |
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The 5,3,6: Developing a Sustainability Strategy workshop will introduce participants to the business case for sustainability and take them through the process of developing a sustainability strategy for their own business applying the Shaper Group’s 5-3-6 model for successfully adopting sustainable business practices. |
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The Sustainability Reporting workshop will explore the value to your business of developing a sustainability report. Far more than an exercise in external reporting, sustainability reporting provides an opportunity to drive internal business strategy and execution thereby facilitating the process of embedding sustainability throughout your business. |
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The Climate Change Risk Management workshop is designed to help participants understand the emerging business risks their business may be exposed to through changing environmental conditions, and provide a simple process for identifying and managing these risks to sustain their long-term business operations. |
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The Managing your Sustainability Risk workshop explores the developments of appropriate risk management approaches to address various sustainability related issues and provides a simple process for identifying and managing these risks to sustain long-term business operations. |
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The Innovation & Sustainability the key to competitive advantage workshop explores how innovation inspired by sustainability thinking and practice, can lead to improved productivity and identification of new business opportunities. |
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The Sustainable Supply Chain Management workshop is designed to help businesses identify opportunities in working with their supply chains to drive innovation and cost efficiency through the adoption of sustainable business practices. |
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The Developing a Sustainability Policy workshop will take participants through the process of developing a sustainability policy for their own business. |
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The Understanding the Business Case for Sustainable Business Practices workshop explores the business case for sustainability – providing the knowledge and insight for businesses to minimise organisational risk and maximise opportunities for value creation through sustainable business practices. |
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The Harnessing the Business Case for Sustainable Business Practices explores how to systematically implement sustainable business practices. The focus is on the business driver(s) that present the greatest opportunities for participant’s organisations to gain advantages through sustainable business. |
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The Introduction to Industrial Symbiosis half day workshop is designed to immerse participants in the concept of Industrial Symbiosis, demonstrating the role it can play in developing new business models and driving transformational change. Participants will gain insights into the business case for industrial symbiosis and consider Australian and International case studies of where it is being used within regional business clusters to support the creation of mutual sustainable competitive advantage. |
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The Introduction to Industrial Symbiosis full day workshop is designed to immerse participants in the concept of Industrial Symbiosis, demonstrating the role it can play in developing new business models and driving transformational change. Participants will gain insights into the business case for industrial symbiosis and consider Australian and International case studies of where it is being used within regional business clusters to support the creation of mutual sustainable competitive advantage. |
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The Carbon Accounting workshop will explore the various options available to measure and reduce your organisation carbon profile. This includes advice on the various mechanisms and tools available to measure greenhouse emissions from your own organisation or supply chain. Advice is given and case stories are presented to highlight methods for reducing the greenhouse emissions from your own organisation and supply chain, through to the purchasing of offsets and/or investing in specific carbon reduction or carbon and Biodiversity Rainforest Conservation (REDD). |
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Sustainability Basics
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Sustainability is a term that has different meanings to people from different backgrounds. While for some it may mean the response to climate change, for others it will be associated with social aspects such as sustainable development. Sustainability 101 will help you understand the real meaning of sustainability. |
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No longer just a theory or a topic of debate, there is little doubt that climate change is upon us. With this in mind and the shear enormity of the climate challenge we face, the Climate Change 101 workshop tackles: what and why is climate change actually happening; what are the impacts and implications and how does this apply to me and my business? |
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Workshop Outcomes: |
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Brand Shaping
Communication Shaping
Sustainable Designs
Sustainable Marketing
Sustainable Production
Sustainable Training & Education
Shaping sustainable partnerships
Event Shaping