Capacity enhancement

Capacity enhancement contributes to a healthy, productive workplace through employee empowerment

The creative imagination of your employees can be more effectively stimulated through opportunities for continued learning. Capacity enhancement places a company’s employees in a better position to invent innovative solutions that ensure profitability while mitigating effects on the environment and protecting the rights of people.  

Using engaging approaches, we train employees to make them feel valued, confident, and committed to your company

Capacity enhancement aims at transferring new knowledge, skills, and abilities to equip your employees with the competencies needed to achieve a specific goal. Fostering a culture of learning within your company and making way for training are important steps in improving organizational capacity and employee engagement.

Evaluating skill gaps

We identify activities and skills required to reach your sustainability goals and targets. Given the broad scope of sustainability, these activities may be linked to many departments within your company (procurement, finance, legal, people, etc.) or to other stakeholders (suppliers, customers, etc.). Using interviews, focus group discussions, or surveys, we identify relevant capabilities that your employees currently have. We then assess skills that are still lacking in relation to your goals and targets.

Determining training topics

Skill gaps are translated into training topics. For example, there may be a need to train your staff in areas such as stakeholder engagement, impact materiality, financial risks related to nature, baseline measurement, data analysis, target setting, the mitigation hierarchy, regulatory sustainability frameworks, etc. Ultimately, we select topics and provide tailored training in order to build specific knowledge and skills, depending on your company’s needs.

Skill development

We contribute to capacity enhancement in many ways including seminars, workshops, real-world training, and mentoring. Our training sessions are designed to spur the interest and active involvement of participants. The training format depends on the training topic and the availability and preferences of trainees. The goal of any activity is to improve the knowledge or know-how of your employees and managers.

As your employees and managers gain new competencies, they will perform more effectively and increase positive results

Higher efficiency and innovation

Training helps to upgrade skills within your workforce, which allows for more efficient business processes. Training also serves as a door that helps your employees step out of the box of business as usual, cutting through the noise to identify and capitalize on innovative, more promising approaches.

Improved governance and buy-in

Capacity enhancement expands governance abilities to transform your company’s sustainability challenges into opportunities for increased returns. This can reinforce the relevance and value of sustainability and encourage support and further participation of senior management in such transformative efforts.  

Increased sustainability literacy

Learning opportunities improve understanding of sustainability and related concepts and the ability of your employees to articulate more clearly the need for sustainability policy incentives. For example, they will be able to make a compelling case for policy that rewards your sustainability investment with a stronger competitive positioning.

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