Advice and Consultancy for Individuals and Teams

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Advice and Consultancy

Our advice and consultancy programmes seek to address sustainability issues within organisations. They form the basis for organisational change programmes. Embedding sustainability processes within organisations creates powerful platforms that will maintain and create longevity for sustainability. This can be achieved through specific routes using process and systems that guide organisational and individual activities.

Our 7 STAR programme works with the key building blocks of organisational sustainability. It is a process based approach that provides frameworks for sustainability audit, training and management programmes. The key 7 STAR steps cover in outline:

1. Identification of sustainability issues within the organisation

2. Assessment of significance and trends

3. Systems linkages, drivers and key influences both internal and external

4. Value systems and growth pathways

5. Organisational processes, energisation and change

6. Vision and mission

7. Governance and imperatives

These programmes enable all individuals within the organisation to contribute to sustainability. BS 8900 Guidance for Managing Sustainable Development seeks to provide frameworks for sustainability thinking. ISO 14001 also seeks to provide a management systems approach. The 7 STAR approach can be fully integrated with BS 8900, ISO 14001 and SA 8000. All of these management system approaches are frameworks that can be employed to assist people achieve better performance and in doing so can be very simple.

Redditch Borough Council

This is a sustainability programme for the entire council, using all elements of the 7 STAR process. The programme began with a sustainability audit programme to evaluate the current mind set of the organisation and to identify the key strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. A sustainability management system has been designed that is in the process of being implemented. The system is designed to integrate with the Local Area Agreement and Local Strategic Partnership. Training and development programmes have been designed for professional staff and the elected representatives.

Southampton City Council

This project involved working with the Open Spaces team to develop a sustainability strategy for the Thornhill area of Southampton. This very successful project will now be extended to the whole of Southampton. The project involved consultations and workshops with a wide range of partnering organisations to develop an innovative strategy for bio diversity and open spaces.

Ceredigion County Council

Ceredigion County Council commissioned a sustainability programme for one of it’s largest departments. The programme began with an initial review and audit to establish performance and to identify opportunities for improvement. All of the sites that formed part of this department were examined. A sustainability policy was developed and an action programme put in place that resulted in significant cost savings.