Our purpose-driven mission
Workshop "Start with sustainability value" | Intro: session 1/5 | How-to guides and features #2023-1
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. Exceptionally, this part is open to the public. We look forward to counting you among our Premium Members soon.
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.
“When we encounter chaos, we look for ways to overview the situation, manage it or combine it with reality, see through it, or decomplexify it.”
→ Making decisions amid chaotic times on the leadership and sustainability commitments podcast.
How can an organization understand and integrate sustainability and enable progress after all?
Solving an issue in the sustainability arena, introducing a sustainable initiative, or building a purpose-driven product and reengineering the related process requires seeing the world in a new light and acting accordingly.
Energizing society through building, investing, and supporting purpose-driven projects requires deep understanding and knowledge to help fight climate change. Without tools and features, companies—and individuals—repeat old practices.
Most change remains cosmetic, and improvements are either fortuitous or short-lived. Yet, further boosting enterprises’ long-term opportunities will be its position as an alternative to uncertainty amid the shifting global situations.
As more companies seek to diversify their supply chains in production and manufacturing, consolidation will become a business priority.
Continuous improvement schedules are sprouting up as organizations strive to improve themselves and gain an edge. The topic list is long and varied; sometimes, it seems like a roadmap with a predefined mission that’s not necessarily purpose-driven.
Unfortunately, failed missions far outnumber successes, and improvement rates remain distressingly low. Why? Because most companies have been unable to grasp a fundamental truth: continuous improvement requires firm commitments to sustainability.
Three critical issues are left unresolved, yet each is essential to implement sustainability.
We will explore these issues over the following weeks:
First is the question of meaning.
We need a plausible, well-grounded definition of sustainable organizations; it must be actionable and realistic.
Second is the question of management.
We need precise guidelines for practice, filled with operational advice rather than high aspirations.
And third is the question of measurement.
We need better tools for assessing an organization’s rate and level of advancement to ensure that progress has been made.
Visualize the mission
We dedicate our mission to filling the gap between understanding and continuous improvement.
Here’s our purpose-mission in detail: you can start by crafting your own with these five axes.
The Road to Sustainability training products bundle to help you start
$29.00 Original Price:$38.00
This bundle includes both The Road to Sustainability training products:
The Framework for Sustainability Conversations:
To make better choices, judgments, and decisions (view product).
The Sustainability Canvas:
To visualize and map out new business ideas and concepts. (view product).
You'll receive access to both programs in the digital files delivered post-purchase.
Vote on this week's big question "What’s your word for the year starting?": https://sustainabilityinsights.substack.com/p/question-word-2023/comments.
Read and comment on our latest insights “If you have a lemon, make a lemonade”: https://sustainabilityinsights.substack.com/p/insights-02012023.