Advanced Corporate Social Responsibility
Course Information:
Venue: | Duration: | Date: | Price: |
---|---|---|---|
Online | 20 hours | Flexi-date | £2,500.00 |
In-House | Agreed with client | Flexible | POA |
London | 10 days | 28-Feb | £5,900.00 |
London | 10 days | 30-May | £5,900.00 |
London | 10 days | 28-Nov | £5900.00 |
Who should attend?
- Heads of sustainable development
- Corporate Affairs managers and officers
- CSR managers and officers
- Corporate strategists
- Community Relations managers and officers
- HR, Administration and Environmental managers concerned with CSR planning and implementation
- Procurement managers involved in responsible sourcing initiatives
- Project managers responsible for developing and implementing CSR projects
- Managers and officers involved in non-financial corporate reporting
- Communications managers and officers responsible for internal and external reporting on sustainability
- Internal auditors concerned with corporate social responsibility risks
Accreditations
Outcomes
- Understand how Corporate Social Responsibility is important in the public and private sectors
- Apply CSR best practices to organisational programmes and projects
- Develop and improve their community relations activities
- Interpret the impact of CSR on the reputation of the organisation
- Plan, initiate or improve CSR programmes
- Report on their sustainability programmes
- Identify the links between business ethics, Corporate Social Responsibility and Corporate Governance
COURSE TOPICS:
What is CSR and Why Does it Matter?
- The pressure for change
- The Legal Background of CSR
- Company directors’ obligations and CSR
- Voluntary measures
- Is CSR “Just Public Relations”?
- CSR and corporate governance links
Best practice in CSR –Corporate Approaches on the Key Topics
- Codes of Practice
- Dealing with communities
- CSR and employees
- Managing suppliers responsibly
- Responsible client relations
- Corporate Responsibility and the environment
The Business Case for CSR
- The Strategic Imperatives involved in CSR
- What is a business case?
- USING tools to build the business case
- Identifying and Managing CSR risks
- The public procurement challenges from CSR
- Getting and maintaining corporate support and approval
Changing the Organisation to include CSR
- Developing the CSR corporate vision
- Setting our CSR strategic SMART objectives
- Identifying and Managing affected stakeholders
- How leaders make CSR happen
- The key steps to make the CSR change effective
Developing and Implementing the CSR plan
- What should be in the CSR plan?
- Communicating the plan
- Piloting the plan
- Overcoming objections
- Measuring impact and results
- Auditing and reviewing CSR performance
- Reporting on CSR
Sustainability in Purchasing
- Managing a responsible Supply Chain
- The Ethical Trading Initiative Base Code
- Combating child labour in manufacturing
- Controlling contractor abuses in construction
- Maintaining ethical standards
- Diversity in the supply chain
- Conflict minerals policies
Community Relations and Environmental Sustainability
- Working effectively with host communities
- Managing sensitive issues including payments and relocation
- Building successful community projects
- Assessing social and environmental risk
- Managing operations sustainably
- Case studies on community relations
CSR Standards and Reporting
- Sustainability Reporting frameworks
- The Global Reporting Initiative
- UN Global Compact
- International Labour Organisation instruments
- ISO 26000
- How to report your CSR progress
- Model examples and class exercise using GRI Sustainability Reporting
CSR Perspectives
- The politics of CSR
- Creating shared value
- Ethical consumerism
- “Greenwashing”
- CSR and tax avoidance
- Applying Corporate Social Responsibility in non-corporate organisations
- Future requirements for corporate responsibility