Best Practices in CSR Standards, Reporting, and Performance
Case Studies from the Future 500
- Drive excellence in corporate ethics, accountability, sustainability, and responsibility
- Eliminate "survey fatigue" and manage multiple standards
- Earn top ratings by SRI and CSR agencies
- World-class measurement and reporting systems
- The "CAP Gap" process used by Future 500 companies
- Real-world examples from Coca-Cola, Nike and others
Global companies are expected to meet global standards of corporate accountability, responsibility, and sustainability. Yet those standards are complex and contradictory, and despite best efforts to create order amidst this chaos, they continue to proliferate.
Environmental standards, like GRI, FTSE4Good, and Dow Jones Sustainability Index. Marketplace standards, like the Baldrige quality criteria. Community standards, like the Smart Growth Network and Business in the Community. Workplace standards, like SA 8000. Shareholder standards, like those of Sarbanes Oxley and the New York Stock Exchange, and many more.
How can companies master the standards marketplace, and manage their assessment and reporting functions even amidst the array of contending standards?
Available in keynote, workshop, or other formats, Best Practices in CSR Standards, Reporting, and Performance presents case studies and methods used by Future 500 companies to avoid “survey fatigue,” overcome “headline headache,” and produce world class reports on corporate accountability, responsibility, and sustainability. The presentation features real-world examples of how companies:
- Drive excellence in corporate ethics, accountability, sustainability, and responsibility.
- Eliminate “survey fatigue” and manage multiple standards.
- Earn top ratings by SRI and CSR agencies
- Develop world-class measurement and reporting systems, as rated by globally respected agencies
- Create repositories to store, access, and report their SRI and CSR performance.
We relate the fundamentals using examples from leadership companies like Coca-Cola,
Coors, Dow, Dupont, ERM, General Motors, Matsushita, Mitsubishi Electric, WSP,
and Weyerhaeuser, and others.
BENEFITS
- Learn best practices in SRI and CSR measurement, management, and reporting
- Hear how companies create sustainability reports rated among the world’s ten best
- Overcome “survey fatigue” and respond quickly and effectively to inquiries
- Avoid “headline headache” and keep yourself off the “Ten Worst” lists
- Learn how to manage standards like a marketplace, not a regulatory regimen
- Create a “dream team” and achieve excellence in SRI and CSR performance
- Save time and money, enhance reputation, and build stakeholder capital
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
Board of Director members and Investor Relations staff
Corporation Communications vice presidents and directors
Environmental and Community Affairs representatives
To read some of our sample speeches, click here.
