How to Accelerate HR's Role in Sustainability: The Next Big Step!
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This document discusses how human resources departments can accelerate their organizations' sustainability efforts. It argues that sustainability goals should be integrated into all employee goals and training. An essential part of sustainability is developing a culture of sustainability through values, mindsets, leadership, engagement, diversity and inclusion. HR can help by recruiting, developing and retaining talent aligned with sustainability. Leadership should work across all functions and training should embed sustainability in all roles. Building a sustainability culture requires co-creation, grassroots efforts and long-term thinking.
How to Accelerate HR's Role in Sustainability: The Next Big Step!
- 1. How to Accelerate HR’s Role in Sustainability: The Next Big Step! October 21, 2015 COMMIT!Forum Jeana Wirtenberg, Ph.D. Transitioning to Green, LLC How to Accelerate HR’s Role in Sustainability: The Next Big Step!
- 2. Sustainability, CSR… and Human Resources Perfect Together? Our Purpose Today: Accelerate progress towards your sustainability and CSR goals by partnering with and leveraging your HR department. 2
- 3. What if? Every employee had goals around sustainability, working in concert with the business’ goals to solve some of our most intractable problems? And every employee could articulate what that means to them personally?
- 4. Sustainability happens when… Managers make decisions and take actions every day that take sustainability gain and harm into account. 4
- 5. People Make Sustainability Happen! 5
- 6. THE NEXT BIG STEP IN SUSTAINABILITY IS CULTURE.
- 7. Essential Elements of a Culture for Sustainability • Sustainable Values • Sustainable Mind-Set • Leadership for sustainability • Visionary • Employee engagement • Multi-disciplinary • Diversity, inclusion, social justice • Wisdom 7
- 8. Five Talent Elements to Align with Sustainability and CSR 1. Attracting Talent 2. Recruiting Talent 3. Developing Talent 4. Engaging Talent 5. Retaining Talent “It’s the talent that makes it all happen!” 8
- 9. Leadership for Sustainability: Designed to work across all functions within an organization. 9
- 10. Promote Well-Being by Cultivating Sustainability- Inspired Habits and Practices • Silent Reflection • Mindfulness • Listening generously • Both-And • Being, Satisfaction • Caring, Compassion, and Service • Gratitude • Collaboration • Balance 10
- 11. Learning and Development: Embed Sustainability Training in All Functions • Fundamentals of Sustainability • Marketing, Communications, & Social Networking • Human Resources • Strategy and Metrics • Operations/Facilities • Finance • Supply Chain • Greening Information Technology 11
- 12. Three Big Tipping Points to Build a Culture for Sustainability • Co-Creation • Bottom-Up • Long View 12
- 13. Thank You! Jeana Wirtenberg Ph.D. • Transitioning to Green www.transitioningtogreen.com • [email protected] Phone: 973-335-6299 Twitter: @Trans2Green @jeanawirtenberg • Transitioning to Green Foundation www.TTGFoundation.org • Institute for Sustainable Enterprise, FDU www.fdu.edu/ise