Meaning
Workshop "Start with sustainability value" | Meaning: session 2/5 | How-to guides and features #2023-2
← Previous Workshop, intro: “Our purpose-driven mission | Get started with sustainability value: session 1/5.”
Hello,
This series is a 5-chapter workshop for people with massively varied skills, experiences, and interests but with a common mission of “building their own system based on sustainable value.”
Whether you’re an investor, a founder, a policymaker, a C-level executive, a professional, or a creator, we believe that we're living in times of unprecedented opportunity.
In this session, you’ll find a step-by-step framework that you can use to identify your purpose and develop a sustainability-driven plan to achieve concrete results.
We hope to encourage you to participate in this era of building resilient and responsive organizations with a growing community of sustainability leaders.
We've leveraged every single principle presented in each session—short, impactful guidelines that aim to create fundamental shifts in mindsets versus literal sets of instructions.
→ This chapter is part of the Sustainability Vault hybrid incubator. Premium members have access to the complete lesson.
Materials and resources
We recommend using the following features to help you understand the challenges and reinforce your learning.
1. Use this framework to help teams initiate sustainability conversations.
Explore the Framework for Sustainability Conversations.
→ Find explanations and details here.There are six dynamics in moving towards a sustainable enterprise.
→ Explore the dynamics here.Get the framework in its digital version to start practicing. (As a Premium member, the download of the digital version is included in your yearly subscription—see below this post.)
→ Download the Framework for Sustainability Conversations here (or get The Road to Sustainability training products bundle, including the Framework and the Canvas, for $29.00 only instead of$38.00).
2. The Sustainability Canvas will help you articulate eight issues for problem-solving templates.
Define your purpose, explain your mission, articulate your value, and explore your community.
→ Explore the canvas to help you visualize and map out new business ideas and concepts here.Get the Sustainability Canvas in its digital version. Download it here (or get The Road to Sustainability training products bundle, including the Framework and the Canvas, for $29.00 only instead of
$38.00).
3. Resources: things to read, listen to, and work on.
“Reviewing the world's top businesses' mission/ purpose statement, we will conclude that “in general, “purpose is good.” When we question “How” the purpose is implemented, we shine a light on the incentives, motivations, and methods.”
→ The gap between purpose and how is filled with paradox by Tony Fish.“Adapting to environmental change is a pressing issue for any business and the global population that will necessitate technological innovation to find new ways of living and working.”
→ Rethink perspectives on the leadership and sustainability commitments podcast.
“The most important days of your life are the day you were born, and the day you find out why.” — Mark Twain.
Meaning
The nature of purpose has changed.
To build a future of greater human connections and wellbeing to address the biggest challenges of our era, we need to invest in new ways of thinking, sharing and engaging with our peers.
Those building new purpose-driven enterprises or integrating sustainability into their businesses demonstrate success while navigating a complex, volatile, ambiguous world.
It starts with the power of conversations between leaders, team members, and overall people.
It requires empathy, emotional intelligence, and knowledge to determine the right path.
During those conversations, they leverage the right toolset for their systems, and there's nothing stopping you from doing it yourself.