Engage your colleagues
It’s important that everyone in your workplace is on board with your climate journey. Making sure everyone is part of shaping what environmental sustainability looks like in your organisation will lead to better outcomes. Integrating this into your daily operations will have the biggest impact. Research suggests that employees are more likely to act in a pro-environmental way if they perceive their organisation to have strong environmental values and operations.
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Set up a climate working group or eco-council
Similar to having a focus group within your staff team on equity and diversity or wellbeing; having a specific climate working group can help you to plan events and actions, monitor what you’re currently doing, and report your progress to the rest of the team. Setting up this group doesn’t mean that they’re the only ones responsible for sustainability in your workplace, but it can help push forward climate action. It also means that if staff members leave and responsibilities change you can continue your sustainability journey without having to start from scratch. Establish a group, set their responsibilities, and decide how often they’ll meet.
Set up a climate working group or eco-council
Similar to having a focus group within your staff team on equity and diversity or wellbeing; having a specific climate working group can help you to plan events and actions, monitor what you’re currently doing, and report your progress to the rest of the team. Setting up this group doesn’t mean that they’re the only ones responsible for sustainability in your workplace, but it can help push forward climate action. It also means that if staff members leave and responsibilities change you can continue your sustainability journey without having to start from scratch. Establish a group, set their responsibilities, and decide how often they’ll meet.
Set up a climate working group or eco-council
Similar to having a focus group within your staff team on equity and diversity or wellbeing; having a specific climate working group can help you to plan events and actions, monitor what you’re currently doing, and report your progress to the rest of the team. Setting up this group doesn’t mean that they’re the only ones responsible for sustainability in your workplace, but it can help push forward climate action. It also means that if staff members leave and responsibilities change you can continue your sustainability journey without having to start from scratch. Establish a group, set their responsibilities, and decide how often they’ll meet.
Add the environment as an agenda item to your team meetings
You could add the environment as a regular slot for your team catch-ups. This could be where you share a tip to be more eco, make staff aware of benefits like cycle to work schemes, let people know when the next climate campaign is and what you’ll be doing for it, or reporting progress on your organisation’s sustainability journey.
Add the environment as an agenda item to your team meetings
You could add the environment as a regular slot for your team catch-ups. This could be where you share a tip to be more eco, make staff aware of benefits like cycle to work schemes, let people know when the next climate campaign is and what you’ll be doing for it, or reporting progress on your organisation’s sustainability journey.
Add the environment as an agenda item to your team meetings
You could add the environment as a regular slot for your team catch-ups. This could be where you share a tip to be more eco, make staff aware of benefits like cycle to work schemes, let people know when the next climate campaign is and what you’ll be doing for it, or reporting progress on your organisation’s sustainability journey.
Hold a climate session for your team
Not everyone in an organisation will have the same level of knowledge and confidence around environmental issues. You could hold a short session or workshop to share information and answer questions, bring in a dedicated trainer, or even make it the focus of an away day. Think about what your aims are for the session: do you want to build general environmental knowledge in your team; hold brainstorming sessions on what environmental actions would work in their workplace; or focus on particular sustainable activities, like green social prescribing? Find some more information about talking about climate change in our communication section.
Hold a climate session for your team
Not everyone in an organisation will have the same level of knowledge and confidence around environmental issues. You could hold a short session or workshop to share information and answer questions, bring in a dedicated trainer, or even make it the focus of an away day. Think about what your aims are for the session: do you want to build general environmental knowledge in your team; hold brainstorming sessions on what environmental actions would work in their workplace; or focus on particular sustainable activities, like green social prescribing? Find some more information about talking about climate change in our communication section.
Hold a climate session for your team
Not everyone in an organisation will have the same level of knowledge and confidence around environmental issues. You could hold a short session or workshop to share information and answer questions, bring in a dedicated trainer, or even make it the focus of an away day. Think about what your aims are for the session: do you want to build general environmental knowledge in your team; hold brainstorming sessions on what environmental actions would work in their workplace; or focus on particular sustainable activities, like green social prescribing? Find some more information about talking about climate change in our communication section.
Add the environment as part of the induction for new staff members
If you have an environmental policy or action plan, consider sharing these with your new staff members when they join the organisation. Consider how their role could contribute to making your workplace more environmentally sustainable. You may want to offer environmental training for people joining the organisation.
Add the environment as part of the induction for new staff members
If you have an environmental policy or action plan, consider sharing these with your new staff members when they join the organisation. Consider how their role could contribute to making your workplace more environmentally sustainable. You may want to offer environmental training for people joining the organisation.
Add the environment as part of the induction for new staff members
If you have an environmental policy or action plan, consider sharing these with your new staff members when they join the organisation. Consider how their role could contribute to making your workplace more environmentally sustainable. You may want to offer environmental training for people joining the organisation.
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