Course Outline

Sustainability training course in London, UK

Sustainability training course agenda:

How CSR is Managed

• Understanding what companies want from CSR
• Qualities of good CSR management
• Structuring the CSR function
• CSR as strategy
• The business case for CSR

CSR and Governance

• Theories of corporate governance
• The ‘drivers’ of corporate governance reform
• International developments in corporate governance
• Commentary from a CSR perspective

CSR Reporting

• The nature, challenges and emergence of CSR reporting
• The upsurge in CSR reporting since the early 1990s
• Conventional financial reporting and CSR reporting
• Reporting issues for corporate management

Stakeholder Management and Engagement

• Meaning and origins of stakeholder
• CSR standards
• Stakeholder consensus: deviance and uniformity
• Government and governance

Socially Responsible Investment

• The origins and development of SRI
• Sustainable investing
• Types of SRI analysis and practice
• Engagement
• Other SRI approaches
• SRI performance
• SRI index performance
• SRI fund performance
• Market growth
• Trends in SRI

Sustainability training course – Target audience:

This Sustainability training course is suitable for:

• Heads of organisations, chief officers, chairpersons, board members and directors.
• Heads of departments, and senior managers & executives interested in a customized corporate social responsibility course specific to their business needs.
• Managers of tomorrow who wish to develop modern business practices and find ways to act in a truly responsible way.
• Those who see business as being increasingly central to addressing global concerns and society’s expectations of going beyond wealth creation, against a backdrop of financial crises, climate change, political shifts, and population growth.
• Those who want their business to maximise profits whilst also being publicly accountable for its social and environmental record.
• Those who are concerned about the role of business in modern society.

Sustainability training course – Learning outcomes

Upon completion of this Sustainability training course, you will be able to understand:

• The different goals that companies are trying to achieve.
• The types and levels of CSR that companies exhibit.
• The shared lessons and common elements of CSR management.
• How CSR is managed inside companies.
• The business case for CSR.
• What is meant by ‘corporate governance’.
• The theories and ‘drivers’ of corporate governance.
• International developments in corporate governance.
• The implications for CSR.
• The emergence and development of CSR reporting.
• The voluntary nature of the reports and the issues that surround this feature.
• The theories which might help explain the practice of CSR and CSR reporting.
• New forms of reporting in the coming decade.
• Stakeholders as a managerial concept.
• The different types of stakeholder and difficulties with the ‘stakeholder’ construct.
• The role of stakeholders in defining and implementing voluntary codes of CSR practice and standards.
• Stakeholder management.
• The evolution of socially responsible investment (SRI).
• The main approaches used in SRI decision-making.
• The performance of SRI funds.
• An overview of the international market for SRI and its development in different regional contexts.
• Emerging trends in SRI.

Also see

In addition to LBTC’s Sustainability training course, we also offer training in Corporate Governance. To explore this course, click the link below:

Corporate Governance course.