Sustainability 202 for Government: Taking Action to the Next Level - Should you attend and what will you learn?

Should You Attend?

If the following acronyms and terms are familiar to you,

The Natural Step framework, ecological footprint, ICLEI, cradle to cradle life cycle analysis, GRI, environmental justice, systems thinking, LEED, strategic questioning, environmental management systems

if you are a veteran in advancing sustainable policies and practices,

then you are probably ready for this 2 day advanced intensive. It’s tailored to graduates of Sustainability 101 or experienced practitioners who are ready for the next level of leadership.

By Application Only

What you will learn:

• Your professional and organizational readiness

• Work in small groups to address your professional and departmental readiness, and gain insights on key issues using SSNE’s unique “Search for Insight™” process

• How to turn barriers into opportunities

• Advanced strategic questioning

• Strategic questions are open, engaging, and invite further learning. They make people say, “Wow, that’s a great question, I’ll have to think about that!” and help turn “You should…” into “How might we..?” We’ll spend time getting you beyond the initial framing of strategic questions and into the nuts, bolts and nuances of who should ask whom, when, where. We’ll dig into the different categories of strategic questions, e.g. observation, analysis, visioning, etc.

• Strategy: Moving from goals to results

• Systems thinking & environmental management

• Environmental management systems are wonderful tools. Pair them up with a deep understanding of principles of sustainability, and you can take EMS to a whole new level for greater impact.

• Insights from your peers

• Real-time problem solving for your issues

• All of SSNE’s seminars are designed to focus significant time and energy on your situation. Our unique “Search for Insight™” process combines hundreds of years of participants’ experience with powerful strategic questioning to reveal the key questions and provide the high leverage resources you need.
  
• How to create High Performance Workgroups
  
  • We are all involved in work groups, many of them trying in some way to make our troubled world a little better. Yet very few people have learned the most basics elements of how to create and maintain an effective work team. Worse still, as time and resources get stretched these groups are asked to produce more and more with less and less. Thus we often find ourselves leaving meetings frustrated, depleted and with diminished hope. If we are fortunate enough to be in a high performing team, we often find outside pressures make our tasks increasingly difficult, and/or the group gets less effective over time. So what does it take to be a high performing socially responsible (SR) team?
    
    It’s now proven statistically that knowledge and skills in work group development mean stronger group cohesion, productivity, better margins, and even better health care. Unfortunately, some SR community tendencies undermine great teamwork, while others help. Which is which, and what should you do? You'll fill out a confidential questionnaire to learn your group’s stage of development, and get an introduction to the 5 stages of work group development and what needs to be addressed to achieve or maintain high SR performance. Then we'll discuss how to use this tool to drive progress on internal SR benchmarks and other goals."

To insure this level of personal attention, space is limited! Register now

Download a Seminar Series brochure and registration form.

To learn about the presenters, Paul Lipke and Beth Tener, click here