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Increase sales and customer satisfaction
Attract and keep talented people
Reduce and costs and risks in operations
Increase share price and avoid exclusion
from responsible funds
Training Highlights:
Why Total Quality Management is the foundation for
green business
The four key TQM tools to improve processes and
profits
Why NOT to use payback for your investment decisions,
and the right approach to investments.
How do to effective risk analysis quickly.
Hot words that motivate your colleagues to get on
board
Purchasing vs supply chain management
The "code words" used by green business experts to
create and access a global network of technical solutions for every
industry
The best capital budgeting software you will ever
find for practical use AND making good clean investment decisions
The critical message about your responsible
performance: It's NOT just about the environment
10 rules for effective reporting on your performance,
internally and externally
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Since the 1980s,
innovative companies and experts have been adapting and
creating business tools to improve environmental and social
performance - profitably. Now the "green business
toolbox" includes Life Cycle Analysis, Total Quality
Environmental Management, Sustainable Supply Chain
Management, Environmental Management Accounting, Design for
Environment, Product Stewardship, Stakeholder
Communications, Sustainability Scorecards, and more.
For all of these tools there are guidance manuals, resource
organizations and a global network of experts. And it
is all focused on improved organization performance.
If you want your organization to be more green and
sustainable, these are the tools to use.
This "Boot Camp" is for
anyone who wants to really know how to get sustainable
practices into every aspect of an organization, and what are
the best references and guides to use. In three days
of interactive and fast paced activities you learn the principles, the practical implementation, and
how to get others on board. And hear many case studies
to illustrate the practical realities.
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Green Business Concepts and
Partners
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Your Balance Sheet and Income Statement:
How to show that green business really does pay off.
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The Global Green Business Network: Learn how
to find the specific info you need from around the world.
How to tap the Pollution Prevention and Cleaner Production
technical expert communities.
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The Sustainable Value Chain: How business
functions are being transformed by sustainable solutions.
Executive overview of key roles for every department in an
organization.
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Life Cycle Scoping: The executive approach to
managing life cycle risks and working with suppliers and
customers on sustainable product and service design.
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Support Your Balance Sheet with the
Sustainable Balanced Scorecard: A unique strategy that puts
the sustainable performance indicators you want into a
framework already widely known and supported.
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Stakeholder Communications: What stakeholders
really want to know and how they want to know it. What not
to say. Effective stakeholder engagement strategies.
Tools That Work
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Total Quality Environmental Management - the
key tools for process improvement towards zero emissions and
full employee participation. Lean and Green Manufacturing
and Service: Key principles and resources
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Sustainable Accounting: How sustainability
affects the balance sheet. Activity-Based Costing for
performance on environmental and social indicators. Simple but
effective risk analysis. Special capital investment software
provided.
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Environmentally Preferred Purchasing and
Sustainable Supply Chain Management. Effective purchasing
guidelines. Working with vendors. Managing supplier issues
overseas. Sustainable Product Design: Principles, tools, free
software.
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Green Building: Make your facilities part of
your sustainability plan. Learn critical energy and water
conservation methods and resources. Includes unique software for
reducing impacts in construction projects.
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Teamwork: How to build internal support for
sustainability. Successful dialogue techniques.
Sustainable Strategy
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"Competitive Strategy" in the Sustainability
Century: How classic strategy models have evolved to
successful and sustainable plans. New approaches to
low-cost, differentiation and niche marketing strategies.
How to build a strategy around your unique competence.
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Stakeholders and Visions: Who are your
stakeholders and how to enlist them in your vision.
Introduction to development organizations and their
resources. Which tools to use with which partners.
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Changing Behavior: How to get people in your
organization to do what you want! Introduction to
Community-Based Social Marketing to affect sustainable
behavior. Application to use of green business tools - how
to get that person to try it out.
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Your own sustainable business strategy:
Develop an outline with your classmates.
Back to the Sustainable Balanced Scorecard - your own.
Includes free sustainability planning software.
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 Learn to use
The marketing and internal dialogue words that
work
P2Finance capital investment analysis software
Fast process analysis for full cost assessment
The Lean and Green Toolkit
The Sustainability Reporting Guidelines
EHS Management for Suppliers and Contractors
Sustainable Development Planning Software
(included) A Partial
List of Past Participants:
Boeing
Albertson's
Clean Agency
UCLA
Santa Monica Green Business Program
Potlatch Corp.
King County Housing Authority
Washington Dept of Ecology
US EPA
Port of Seattle
Mithun Architects
SBS Engineers
Grays Harbor Paper Co.
Wells Fargo
Pacific Crest Bank
Whatcom Credit Union
University of Washington
Montana U Business School
Western Washington U
Bainbridge Graduate Inst |
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The Instructor: Burton Hamner, MBA,
MA, is an international consultant and trainer in
sustainable business and industrial pollution prevention. He
has been an MBA professor of operations, accounting and
environmental management at the Asian Institute of
Management in Manila, Philippines, and at the
Universidad del Pacifico in Lima, Peru. Burton has
conducted over 200 on-site green business consultations
in 15 countries. He has been consulting since 1992 for organizations such as Nike Inc., the City of
Seattle, the Washington Department of Ecology, Oregon
Natural Step Network, the US Agency for International
Development, the World Bank, the governments of Thailand and
Peru, and the United Nations. In October 2005 he chaired the
Clean Technology and Investment session at the
United
Nations Global Summit on Sustainable Finance, at UN HQ in
New York City.
More than 5000 industry and government managers around the
world have attended Burton's informative, interactive and
entertaining workshops and conference presentations on
sustainable business for practical people. Click
here
for more information, CV and publications.
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For your investment you get: Business and organization skills that
will last a lifetime and can be used in any industry; solutions
that have already saved other organizations thousands and even
millions of dollars and created new market segments; a reference
library worth thousands of dollars if you bought equivalent
publications (if you could even find them); a personal action
plan developed with the other participants; big satisfaction
that you really know how to put your values into practice; and a free personal
consulting session with the professor any time within a year
after the workshop. And the tuition is less or equal to
any standard continuing education course.
Who should attend this unique workshop?
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Managers and Entrepreneurs:
By far the most successful way to be a green and responsible
business is to design it right in from the start. Learn
how to grow a business the green and sustainable way.
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Environmental /
Sustainability Managers:
Use the right tools to make the business case for environmental
investment and improvement. How to work with each function
in your organization in the business languages they use (hint:
they DON'T want to talk about "sustainability" or being "green").
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Educators and consultants:
Broaden your skills quickly and learn new approaches and tools
for business education, consulting and business development.
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Economic development and
environmental / social regulation and advocacy:
Learn how to promote
responsible organizations in your community and get business
leaders to support your mission.
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Investor Relations:
Every day there are more responsible investment and clean
technology funds competing for market dollars. They are
asking detailed question about sustainability before they
invest. Learn what to expect from
responsible investors and what kind of performance your company must
show.
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Fund Management:
Pick long-term winners. Leading corporations are publishing
their sustainability and environmental strategies and programs.
What are they talking about and how does it affect their value?
Your satisfaction is
GUARANTEED.
We are totally
committed to ensuring you have a great experience. If you
are not satisfied with your investment, just tell us so in
writing (so we can know what to improve) and we will refund your
tuition within one month. If you enroll but suddenly
cannot attend, your tuition is refundable (minus a $25 handling
charge) up to 3 days before the event or you can send
someone in your place. Tuition will also be refunded, even
during the workshop (pro-rated), if you cannot attend due to
illness or family emergency.
Affordable Training:
The workshop is $750 or $650 with
early registration.
Enroll early and
save! Seats
are limited and we can take only 50 people per class maximum to
ensure we have good interactions. Save $100 - 18% - on early
registration.
SPECIAL OFFER: Many of our participants go on to make
big improvements in their businesses but they run into
challenges. If you enroll in this workshop you will also
receive FREE consulting time with Burton Hamner, the
workshop instructor. Up to four hours, either in person
(travel cost not included) or by phone or internet
videoconference, to be used any time within six months of the
seminar. Need advice? Research or analysis? A
speaker/trainer for your organization? Burton Hamner has
15 years experience helping organizations in over a dozen
countries - he will help you after the workshop to meet your
goals.
The Green Wave in business gets
bigger every day. This is a truly unique and effective
opportunity for you to learn the basic tools and strategies you
need to join the global community of organizations getter better
results through greener practices. Workshop seats
are reserved on a first-come, first-served basis and are limited
to 50 participants.
PS: If you don't want to enroll now
but
would like to receive information about future events,
send an email to us. We will not distribute your
information to any other organization and will use it only to
inform you about new training events and updates.
PPS: You can separately order the
Sustainable Business CD Library for only $45. This
is an incredible reference with over 500 of the best
publications on every aspect of sustainable business. Of
course you have to read them yourself; if you enroll in the
course you get the big picture how to use them most efficiently!
But for those who can't enroll, the CD Library is a fantastic
deal. Click to see the full
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