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An impactful talent management strategy relies on four core principles
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Set your baseline Calculate the carbon footprint of your business activities. For example, if working in a corporate office environment, you might establish the amount of carbon emitted because of the heating, lighting, ventilation and other equipment in the building. This gives you a baseline from which you can make demonstrable improvements.
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Consider procurement How we procure goods and services has a major impact on the success of a CSR programme. Engaging suppliers is the first step toward a more responsible supply chain. Create forums ROD GLENN is for your organisation health, safety, and suppliers to discuss environment, better ways of working quality and and share best practices. CSR director at CORP OR AT E S OCIA L RES P ON S IBIL I T Y SPIE UK This may feel like you’re giving away business secrets but meeting CSR goals needs a collaborative approach. Key to procurement is FM's corporate social responsiblity input may understanding the next need reassessment post-pandemic. Rod Glenn generation of sustainable and/or renewable energy breaks the basics down in this five point primer technologies. As technology advances, buildings will be able to produce renewable energy, hot desking arrangements, Consider how hybrid create healthier environments, accompanied by automated working may alter needs and help cool the atmosphere. light, heating and ventilation Reduced office occupancy FMs need to understand how controls. In doing so, FMs resulting from hybrid working these systems are operated and can have a profound impact creates potential for offices to maintained, and the benefits on returning offices to the be occupied inefficiently and they bring in a future where social, collaborative spaces for energy to be used when it the easy fixes are no longer we have missed whilst having doesn’t need to be. FMs can enough to meet stricter CSR and a significant bearing on add value by helping clients sustainable goals. energy expenditure. implement clean and safe
The ABC of CSR
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Act ethically People realise that good CSR practices are indicative of a well run and resilient business. Placing ethics at the core of your business practices is an opportunity for upstream and downstream value creation. For instance, collaborating with your supply chain to create more sustainable products for use across the estates that you manage helps customers meet their objectives, and positions you to attain higher value that has a positive impact on your bottom line. It also puts your supplier in a position where they have more valuable products for which they have a market – a win-win scenario.
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Work in partnership Achieving CSR goals involves many stakeholders, from senior managers and employees on the customer side, the broader supply chain of the organisation you’re working with, and everyone in your own organisation and supply chain. This is complex, but a fantastic opportunity for FMs to drive economic and social change. Never has there been greater awareness of our relationship with the environment, the impact the spaces we inhabit have on our health, and the positive effects of productive collaboration, whilst having time for ourselves. In many ways FMs find themselves at the confluence of many of these changes, and it’s up to the industry to play its part in overcoming these challenges.
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