Attracting Talent: Why you need to offer sustainability training

Employees are increasingly choosing their job based on how sustainable their employer is, with recent research showing that the majority of employees want to work for a business that is trying to have a positive impact and nearly half saying they would resign if they felt their employer wasn’t doing enough.

This extends to the L&D you’re offering, but what does a good programme look like?

How to get sustainability training wrong

Ignore sustainability as an L&D topic altogether
Trot out an off-the-shelf solution that has no relevance to your business
Make your employees sit through a training course so boring it makes them want to speed up planetary destruction rather than reverse it... you know the type we’re talking about
Provide one-off training that doesn’t leave the classroom or lead to any long-term behaviour change

How to get sustainability training right

Make it relevant to your business – effective L&D should be tailored to your business, how you operate and what you’re already doing on sustainability
Make it genuinely engaging – it can’t be a science lecture. It needs to be thought-provoking, engaging and fun
Make it long-term – any worthwhile L&D needs to have an effective way for employees to take what they learnt with them into their day jobs

How we can help

At Carbon Jacked, we combine genuine sustainability expertise with a background in science-based behavioural insights to provide training sessions that are genuinely tailored, engaging and relevant for your staff.

We speak to you to find out how your business operates and what you care about, which we use to design and deliver a training programme that will embed sustainability into the DNA of your people.

We can also help you build broader employee engagement programmes which you can read about here.