And that concludes #LT25uk and #T4S6 on sustainability!
Some interesting things to take away and consider.
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Go back 10 years what would Mike do differently especially around communication.
Mistake 1 - the message was too top down
Mistake 2 - when it had to lead on 100 commitments it seemed daunting. They then focused on 30 they could lead on and have the biggest impact
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Q&A time.
What’s their experience in empowering locals in the Middle East?
Mike sharing his experience at M&S. Advised they asked them and learnt it was all about community. So started there. Their original mistake was trying to copy and paste the UK initiative into the region.
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Here are some of the answers coming from the audience members …
A bit of a prickly shot at AI 👀
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We’re now getting involved in a discussion about which of these practices we could use in our organisations?
Let’s standby for some of the ideas that come out of this 💡
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Slide of three boxes with critical questions to ask
Here are their three critical questions for everyone to answer if they want to be more sustainable.
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They came up with the tagline “Plan A because there’s no plan b” to get people to care about it.
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Mike is giving us a case study on M&S shifting their USP from quality to sustainability.
Highlighting the switch away from plastic, reducing the food during the day to avoid food waste or donating it to food banks.
All parts of their 100 points of sustainability plan.
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It’s important to tell the story of sustainability across the business which involves being able to persuade and influence, evidencing impact of initiatives, and external comms on external platforms like LinkedIn about your impact.
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They’re highlighting how you should weave the sustainability action into existing initiatives like onboarding for example.
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Sustainability teams can be technically knowledgeable and would benefit from L&Ds input on how to roll out initiatives. They may know the technical content but not really have the skills or experience on how to deliver that in a way that connects with the audience.
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Define the co-benefits of sustainability. Look to the future of the org and work cross functionally to see how problems can be solved in a shared way with sustainability at the heart of it.
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The first practical step is reviewing your existing toolkit.
- Stakeholder mapping.
-Identify leverage points across your org.
-Co-creating a vision
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Mike expressing sustainability is a 21st century signal of quality. The story you tell is not about ‘greenness’ there’s a reason your customers come to you you need to weave that into your story.
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The audience is now sharing some of the challenges they’re experiencing.
The lack of motivation from
The bottom up in orgs being a prominent one.
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Some challenges Mike heads from boards across orgs is…
Will consumers pay for this?
Can’t we just wait?
70% say they want to shop in a sustainable way but only 12% do so in a sustainable way.
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This is about a radical re evaluation of how you do business and the transformation of the organisation.
Therefore it will require the entire organisation coming together rather than small specialist teams working independently.
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Screen showing a list of internal and external contexts.
Mike is sharing the external and internal context to the sustainability problem. Highlighting climate change the food system etc
The challenges faced by L&D, squeezed budgets, lack of time, demonstration of ROI.
We need to start to build a narrative it’s about every person.
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The aim is to explore how us as a people profession can put sustainability at the heart at the core of the product and services we offer.
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Presenter in front of a list of four questions on screen
We are being asked to rate our org on the following questions…
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How can you help your organisation be more sustainable?
We’re going to hear about some practical tools to apply straight away and some inspiration! 🍃
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Next up we have…
Learning Sustainability - Phil Hazell, Mike Barry and Rob Hubbard
Really intrigued by this one!
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Gooooood Morning #LT25uk
Here’s a round up of the sessions I’m covering right here on Bluesky today.
13:55 - Learning Landscape #T1S5 @mylesrun.bsky.social and David Perring
15:50 - Learning Sustainability #T4S6 Phil Hazell and Mike Barry
follow along for what looks like another smashing day!
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