The British Academy for Training and Development offers Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for Business training course. The business environment is punctuated with an extraordinary speed of combination and complexity of risks and opportunities. The marketplace would cease to exist in an instant due to various factors: for instance, new technology, unforeseen depletion of natural resources, or even a pandemic situation. Competition and new opportunities are changing rapidly as a result of growth in population, depletion of resources, or global health risks. Stakeholders have now become well-informed and require corporations to take responsibility for these pressures on our planet and life.

The Sustainable Development Goals for Business training programme enlightens attendees on how a business leader maintains an edge. Companies cannot just concern themselves with short-term profits because disasters, social unrest, and economic disparity can interrupt any long-term viability. Businesses which are awfully aware of this problem and therefore do something about it will be one step ahead.

Objective:
At the end of this training course, attendees will be able to:

• Develop an understanding of the business environment

• Make sense out of complexity and an uncertain future

• Identify the implications of a choice for all stakeholders involved

• Decide on profits, people, and planet

• The possibility of further studies in the future

Who Should Attend?
This course is ideal for:

• Managers

• Department Heads

• Heads of Divisions

• Strategists

• Senior Leaders and Directors

How will attendees benefit?
Attendees will gain many benefits include:

In-Depth Understanding of SDGs: Sustainable Development Goals will create an effective understanding of how they are aligned with the corporate world. It will also provide insights into how businesses can contribute to the global sustainability projects along which they achieve commercial success.

Strategic Integration into Business Models: Attendees will study how to integrate SDGs into their organisations so that they're incorporated within the core functions the strategy, the operations, and reporting. In turn, this future-proofs the companies and helps the resilience and long-term value creation of these companies.

Improvement Stakeholder Engagement: This course adds to the ability of professionals to communicate sustainability initiatives to their stakeholders investors, customers, employees, and regulators increasing trust and transparency.

Competitive Advantage and Innovation: These could range from entering entirely new market areas to developing innovative technologies that enable the creation of sustainable products or services aligned with ever-changing customer expectations.

Advanced Practical Applications of both ESG and CSR: This training helps improve the Individuals with how the company can be made better within Environmental, Social, Governance (ESG) and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) by using the SDGs to set a benchmark for measurable impact.

Risk Management and Regulatory Compliance: Attendees will learn in this context how maintaining alignment to SDGs can help avoid sustainability, regulation, supply chain ethics, and climate change-related risks and compliance with the new emerging global standards.

Practical Instruments and Case Studies: The attendees will leave with appropriate useful tools, frameworks, and real-life case studies, exemplifying how different firms use SDG strategies.

Networking and Knowledge Sharing: Attendees benefit from the interaction with professional peers and sustainability leaders and build a community of practice in collaboration and joint learning opportunities.

Reputation on Personal and Organisational Levels: Spearheading any initiative taken onto SDGs does great to career credentials and the reputation of the organisation as a socially responsible, trendsetting entity.

Impact on your Company

• Overview of SDG policy

• Identify where and how the 17 SDGs impact

• Risk Analysis

• Establish Project Planning

• Formulate main areas of project

• Set goals, measures, and timeline 

The Board Must Decide

• Five-Step Strategy Model

• The Strategy Diamond

• The Business Model Canvass

• The Balanced Scorecard

• Porter’s Five Forces – Assessing the balance of power in a business situation

• Diversification – Reducing business risk

Work with your Shareholders

• Conduct a stakeholder analysis

• Identify your stakeholders

• Prioritize your stakeholders

• Understand their needs and concerns

• Establish joint goals and strategies

• Communicate regularly on progress 

Engage your Employees

• Why most employees are not engaged by their work?

• The 15-year plan, and its effect on motivation

• Engage your team to gain better results

• Engaging an audience though presentations

• Recognition and rewards

• How to create a positive working environment?

Commitment to the Public

• Create public liaison officer

• Establish and hold meetings

• Running successful public meetings

• Update and publish progress

• Include press and industry specialists

• Action Planning