From 1994-1998 we conducted green business training around Southeast Asia for the US Agency for International Development.  Over 3000 managers and others participated in the training. 
We published an assessment of the training, including participant comments,
in the Journal of Cleaner Production. 
("Cleaner Production Training in Asia: Experience from the ASEAN Environmental Improvement Program." 
J. Cleaner Production, 7:75-81, 1999)

Comments Received from Green Business Training Participants

What was most helpful part of the training course?

learning to quantify the costs of wastage Total Quality Management tools process analysis, team building, motivation to pollution prevention, the pollution prevention hierarchy it helps me to further refine my knowledge of sources of environmental impact understanding environmental stakeholder philosophy the TQM program looking into the expenses of the company and starting the evaluation from there success stories shared by participants

process analysis tools pollution prevention success stories open forum/discussion on Pollution Prevention implementation systematic approach of forming maintaining committee resources for implementation, and success stories total quality management approach the discussion of strategic environmental management, life cycle analysis, and lots of examples team building and resources for implementation

What were the most important skills you learned?

presentation skills for convincing management of the potential benefits and savings for the company use of accounting figures to assist in putting value, instead of intangibles only total quality management, process analysis/cause and effect, motivation tools, costs getting management support for strategic environmental management projects how I can reinforce our Pollution Control Officer in the strict implementation of our environmental projects doing step by step by planning all the necessary things and have more communication with our management management tools to convince managers to adopt a P2 program learned action plan for information dissemination implementation of P2 in different section of the local community total quality management on environment the art of motivating systematic evaluation/auditing to improve pollution prevention in industry to anticipate what would motivate the participation of members of P2 team

process mapping, communication tools tools to get what I wanted from my boss motivation under the role of management learned the role of management in implementation a new and systematic way of addressing wastage how to convince top management on waste reduction program why waste happens and prevention role of management for team building how to motivate people to get involved in program communication skills ability to share knowledge of what I have learned to other companies role of management for team building ways of convincing top management to implement the project to communicate to president and board members about pollution problem communication skills - to communicate from the management down to the lowest-level operator how to save time and materials in production

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