challenge

challenge

You’ve successfully gained commitment, established a baseline and know where you stand regarding your legal and other compliance requirements. The challenge step will see you really identifying what you need to focus on, set meaningful objectives and set out your initial targets for the project. We’ll work with you through the points below so that you can be confident that you have a good understanding of how your firm interacts with the environment and what the resultant impacts are. Our experience will help you answer not just the ‘why do it’, but also the ‘how do we do that’ questions, enabling you to set challenging objectives and targets for your firm.

Significant impact

Identifying how your firm interacts with the environment, both directly and indirectly is vital in enabling you to distinguish where you need to concentrate your efforts. By knowing the significance of your environmental impacts, you can prioritize your activities and resources.

Revisit your intent

The challenge step is a great point at which to revisit your public commitment. It’s the right time to firm up the content of that statement having established what your significant issues are and set yourself goals to achieve.

Setting the challenge

As you know what your impacts are, it makes sense to do something about those that are most significant to you. Setting meaningful objectives and targets that relate to your impacts and publicly stated aspirations will help you deliver results that are actually important to your firm.

On target?

Having considered meaningful measures back in Step 1, this is the right time to check that those measures are going to help you track and report your progress. Remember you may need to present your progress in different ways for different audiences.

Planning progress

Part of any project, environmental or otherwise is some form of plan. A good plan of activities that includes personal responsibilities will provide you with a clear pathway to follow. Don’t forget that detailing how you manage your environmental issues will give your project a firm foundation as it will be obvious what’s expected to be achieved and by whom.

Who knows?

Spreading awareness of your aspirations and objectives across the firm will be central to the success of your project. You may also consider the value of communicating more with specific external agencies.

Commit Comply Challenge Chart Check

Why not contact us and arrange an initial complimentary consultation to find out how the GreenSkyThinking 5C program can help you achieve your green business goals.