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SUSTAINABILITY
Sustainability is increasingly associated with quality and integrity in policy and decision-making, and has an important contribution to make to a more cost efficient and resilient public sector.
Our work in this area is designed to help you acquire basic knowledge and skills for the nature of the contribution you may find yourself expected to make. Getting in Touch with the Future and Sustainability – Your Contribution in the Workplace are the programmes that lay the foundations for positive change in your organisation.
Although the scope of sustainability is broad we also work in areas that require expertise and focus. See box below.
Our sustainability programmes can also be delivered in your organisation and increasingly our clients prefer this. Give us a call to discuss your needs.
For further information Juliet Shaljean-Tilley 01344 634 318, gtn 3803 4318
juliet.shaljean-tilley@nationalschool.gsi.gov.uk
Getting in Touch with the Future
Spend a day discussing the scope and scale of challenges facing the public sector and the new spirit of service and leadership needed.
A friendly expert panel including scientists and economists answer your questions, and help you think how to make your own contribution to positive change.
Programme Directors Adrian Robertson and Charlotte Revely
Code Length Price
SDWK 1 day £375
Venue Dates
London 4 Jun 10, 11 Jan 11
For further information Barbara Thompson 01344 634 150, gtn 3803 4150
barbara.thompson@nationalschool.gsi.gov.uk nationalschool.gov.uk/sdwk
You may also be interested in High Performance Sustainable Development in Government see page 70.
Sustainability – Your Contribution in the Workplace
A day spent looking more specifically at how to make an effective contribution at work.
We focus on how an organisation uses finite resources and ways in which consumption and cost can be cut, with knock-on reductions in emissions.
You learn to look at everyday service as well as projects through a sustainability lens.
You look at procurement and learn the basics of whole life and life cycle costing.
We encourage you to bring your own questions and cases and work through them in safe learning environment.
Programme Directors Adrian Robertson and Charlotte Revely
Code Length Price
SDCW 1 day £375
Venue Dates
London 5 Nov 10
For further information Lucy Padfield 01344 634 619, gtn 3803 4619
lucy.padfield@nationalschool.gsi.gov.uk nationalschool.gov.uk/sdcw
Business Cases and Decision Making
You look at how sustainability works in the wider business case ‘green book’ environment. We aim to build the programme around cases you bring.
The programme is aimed at finance officers, accountants, risk managers, economists and senior responsible owners who want to apply robust finance and commercial performance criteria to projects and programmes that have a sustainability component.
We draw together experts, specialists and scrutineers from across government. We look at the issues, challenges, dilemmas and trade-offs and explore room for manoeuvre in a difficult investment environment.
Programme Directors Adrian Robertson and Charlotte Revely
Code Length Price
SDCC 11⁄2 days £650
Venue Dates
London 23-24 Sep 10
For further information Lucy Padfield 01344 634 619, gtn 3803 4619
lucy.padfield@nationalschool.gsi.gov.uk nationalschool.gov.uk/sdcc
Foundations for Sustainability – a Strategic Introduction
You see sustainability as a high priority leadership topic and want to know more.
You want to understand sustainability beyond ‘single issue’ topics such as carbon reduction.
You want something feistier and more strategic, and you want to explore tough questions about how ‘sustainability’ can work in a wider policy environment.
You will make connections between resilience, sustainability, economics, social psychology, systems thinking, cost efficiency, lean management, democratic renewal and social innovation.
Programme Directors Adrian Robertson and Charlotte Revely
Code Length Price
SDG2 3 days £1,250
Venue Dates
TBC 15-17 Feb 11
For further information Lucy Padfield 01344 634 619, gtn 3803 4619
lucy.padfield@nationalschool.gsi.gov.uk nationalschool.gov.uk/sdg2
Buying a Better Future – Purchasing as if the Planet Mattered
You want to dig a little further into sustainable procurement. You are quite new to the subject and you want to get a good grounding in what it is all about. Or you are an existing practitioner trying to apply sustainability principles to purchasing activity and running into obstacles.
Either way we aim to move you on during this two-day exercise (lunchtime to lunchtime) the next day.
We plan to encourage you by exposing you to examples across several sectors, and to create some ‘clinic space’ for people to bring casework for group discussion with friendly experts.
Programme Director Adrian Robertson
Code Length Price
SDPP 11⁄2 days £650
Venue Dates
London 30 Sep-1 Oct 10
For further information Lucy Padfield 01344 634 619, gtn 3803 4619
lucy.padfield@nationalschool.gsi.gov.uk nationalschool.gov.uk/sdpp
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