This “Sustainability Energy and Change” training course provides tools to enable delegates to make the best strategic business decisions to adapt to the changing forward operating environment. It will enable delegates to define management systems that will give them better information about the system dynamics of their organizations and better information about foreseeable changes in the operating environment. It will enable them to identify organizational risks associated with “business as usual”, and to make better strategic decisions about changing the forward direction of the organization.
All wise business leaders recognize “that change is needed” and they know there are “un-sustainability” risks but the direct links with business success may be unclear. This course will enable delegates to decide “what change is needed” based on a robust, data-based understanding of their business and how it is impacted by any external change. This will give delegates a robust understanding of which changes and technologies should be a part of long term corporate strategy, and which are just “green window dressing”. The future will not look like the past; this course will provide delegates organizations with the capacity to ensure the future includes long term prosperity and resilience to external changes.
This training course will highlight:
- How to understand System Dynamics – how our organization interacts with external change
- Key challenges, risks and future scenarios
- Fundamentals of the “Transition Engineering and Innovation” approach
- Tools to help decision making about future direction and strategic change
- How to implement strategic change using day to day management programmes
By the end of this training course, participants will be able to:
- Understand system dynamics between your organization and the operating environment
- Identify and Articulate possible future business risks from “un-sustainability”
- Design better strategies using Transition Engineering and Innovation thinking tools
- Establish a high degree of confidence in the long-term prosperity of your organization
- Make better decisions by “thinking differently”
DAY 1
INTRODUCTION & SYSTEM DYNAMICS
- Sustainability: the capacity for continuity into the long-term future
- Safe operating spaces and “unsustainability”
- The importance of energy in human systems
- Historical background to current global challenges
- Historical responses to un-sustainability
- Overview of global problems of unsustainability
DAY 2
INTRODUCTION TO TRANSITION ENGINEERING DECISION MAKING TOOLS
- The unsustainability challenges facing my organization.
- Examples and use of future scenarios
- The challenge of energy return on energy invested (EROI)
- The problem of exponential growth
- The relative usefulness of existing future scenarios
- Introduction to Transition Engineering and Innovation
DAY 3
THINKING DIFFERENTLY: DESIGNING CHANGE
- Thinking tools that can help decision making about strategic direction.
- Path break concepts; envisioning a sustainable future
- Learn from what works - Sustainable models for economic activity and capital
- Achieving resilience to external change
- Examples of organizations that have made path-break changes for sustainability
- Path break Solution for your own organization
DAY 4
DESIGNING STRATEGIC PATH BREAK CONCEPTS AND CHANGE PLANS
- Creating a vision of future success
- Using Back-Casting to see out how to get to where you want to be
- Developing a Change Programme
- Identifying barriers to change
- Trigger Events – external and internal events that help avoid undesirable inertia
- Collaboration with operational staff to implement change
DAY 5
IMPLEMENTATION
- Creating a Change Programme from a Back-Casting Change Path
- Managing Core and Non-Core Activities in a Change Programme
- Use of Standard Management Tools to implement Path Break Changes
- The role of Teams in Change; Shared Vision, Trust Structure and Leadership
- The importance of Strategic Communications to Maintain Momentum and Ownership
This training course on Sustainability Energy and Change is suitable to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:
- Strategic decision makers facing a “wicked problem”, typically decision makers in organisations charged with deciding strategic direction in the face of complex challenges such as climate change, energy dependence and the corporate response to “sustainability”
- Professionals in decision making and leadership roles responsible for ensuring their organisation responds to external changes that challenge business prosperity
- Professionals developing strategy related to energy-dependent functions of the organisation including manufacturing, transport and buildings