CSR Strategy™

Why this course?

On completion of this CSR Strategy course, delegates will:

• Understand CSR – its history, interpretations and strategic implications
• Appreciate the drivers for CSR
• Understand the importance of key performance indicators
• Be able to identify their own key CSR stakeholders and devise strategies for working with them successfully
• Understand and be able to describe 3rd party and industry specific benchmarks
• Be able to create a program for delivering a CSR strategy within an organization

Agenda:

1) Strategic Alliances

• NGO’s
• IGO’s
• Corporations

2) Risk Mitigation

• Implementing Risk Mitigating in Strategy
• Added Value
• Human Capital Risk Mitigation
• Environmental Risk Mitigation

3) Value Added Strategic ROI

• Social Return on Investment (SROI)
• Planning Strategies around SROI
• Quantitative vs. Qualitative
• Systems Integration
• Creating Shared Value
• The Strategic Imperatives involved in CSR

4) Developing and implementing the CSR plan

• What should be in the CSR plan?
• Communicating the plan
• Piloting the plan
• Overcoming objections
• Measuring impact and results
• Auditing and reviewing CSR performance
• Reporting on CSR

5) Changing the Organization to include CSR

• Developing the CSR corporate vision
• Setting our CSR strategic SMART objectives
• Identifying and Managing affected stakeholders
• How leaders make CSR happen
• The key steps to make the CSR change effective

Suitability – Who should attend?

This training course is suitable for:

• Executives involved in strategic and operational functions, including finance, corporate strategy, human resources, supplier or community relations, and government affairs
• Senior managers involved in setting up corporate governance or CSR initiatives
• Corporate lawyers who wish to improve their understanding of new company law developments concerning corporate responsibility
• Stakeholder managers responsible for their organization’s dealings with the community, their employees and elsewhere
• Managers involved in developing, implementing and monitoring change programs to improve standards of corporate behavior and business conduct