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ESG training for sustainable business practices
Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) training helps businesses create and maintain sustainable business practices and promote a culture of sustainability.
Our ESG training catalogue is created by experts and provides comprehensive learning for employees of all roles and seniority, ensuring the entire business is enabled to maintain and improve sustainability and meet ESG reporting standards.
This ESG training course equips your workforce with the knowledge to understand, implement, and champion environmental, social and governance practices that enhance business performance and reputation.
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About ESG training:
ESG is becoming increasingly important for all businesses in improving performance and investability. This training empowers employees to understand ESG principles and their practical application in modern business. The course covers the three core pillars (environmental responsibility, social impact, and governance structures) and why they matter to organisations of all sizes.
Learners will explore how ESG frameworks are assessed by investors and stakeholders, and understand the tangible benefits including improved reputation, enhanced cost efficiencies, stronger stakeholder relationships, and increased investability. The course demystifies ESG terminology and provides practical context for implementing these principles across various business functions.
Who is this course for?
This ESG certification course is designed for professionals at all levels who need to understand ESG principles and their impact on business operations. It's ideal for managers, team leaders, and employees involved in strategy, operations, compliance, or sustainability initiatives. The training is equally valuable for board members, executives, and decision-makers responsible for governance and strategic direction.
You can learn more about ESG practices in our guide to environmental compliance.
What are the learning objectives for this ESG training course?
By completing this ESG course, learners will be able to:
● Define what Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) means and explain its core components
● Understand why ESG has become critical to business success and how it influences investor decisions and competitive positioning
● Recognise the tangible benefits ESG brings including improved reputation, cost efficiencies, stakeholder relationships, and investability
● Identify practical applications of ESG principles within their own roles
● Apply ESG considerations to business decision-making processes
Course Content and Style
This eLearning course covers essential ESG topics through four comprehensive modules:
● Introduction to Sustainability: A comprehensive overview of the challenges we currently face in reducing our impact on the environment, including actionable practices to help employees reduce their own carbon footprint.
● Sustainable Business Management: Practical training and guidance on sustainable business management that helps learners to develop a sustainability strategy, stay compliant and measure and report on sustainability to meet ESG reporting standards.
● ESG for Senior Leaders: Providing vital ESG training for board members, this training helps enable leaders to implement effective sustainability practices, helping the business achieve its sustainability objectives while adopting a culture to facilitate ESG practices.
● Environmental Awareness: Enable your teams to identify environmental risks, understand regulatory requirements, and implement practical sustainability measures. Interactive content covering pollution types, waste management, and actionable steps for reducing environmental impact.
The training breaks down complex ESG concepts into digestible sections, ensuring learners can easily understand how environmental, social, and governance factors interconnect and influence business outcomes.
End of course assessments ensure knowledge retention and provide effective reporting, while the self-paced structure allows participants to learn flexibly and apply their understanding immediately to real workplace scenarios.
Unlock sustainable success for your organisation
These courses will help everyone, from senior leaders to individual contributors, by breaking down the issues into manageable chunks, and clearly explaining both the issues, and opportunities for action. It cuts through the ESG agenda, which can sometimes feel overwhelming and complex, making the content accessible, and making solutions feel attainable.
I wanted to be part of that because it's frustrating to see when it is not done well. We've taken the time to work through the complexity so that this is a clear and straightforward message, with clear recommendations for action.
Why deliver ESG training online?
Providing ESG courses online is an environmentally friendly and accessible way to deliver engaging training at scale to employees, whilst establishing a culture of sustainability.
ESG training courses can ultimately help the business achieve industry recognition for their sustainable business practices through ISO and B Corp Certification.
All training can be tracked, managed and assigned through our market-leading Learning Management System (LMS) or via your own Learning Solution.
Why use Access Learning for ESG training?
• Credible content – our courses are accredited, endorsed and designed in partnership with subject matter experts.
• Multi-platform learning - optimised for mobile and tablet, meaning less text and more engaging, easily accessible content.
• True ‘bitesize’ microlearning – making your learning experience more manageable, efficient and relevant.
• Learning pathways - split courses up into digestible topics to make it quicker and easier to find training in the flow of work.
• Accessible - we are working to make our content more accessible and are designing content with reference to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.
• Updated and refreshed – Access Learning courses are regularly updated ensuring the most up to date and compliant content.
What our customers say
The content that the Access Learning team create is video-led, human-centred, bitesize, engaging and covers all the technical requirements under the regulations in an informative way. So much so, that we use the eLearning courses internally. From a subject matter expert point of view, we also act as a reference point for the content, as well as recommend and supply it to our clients
From a compliance perspective, we were worried about how to deliver the necessary training to our care teams during the pandemic. But as soon as we launched Access Learning, our Home Managers were really invested, motivated and engaged with the software
Our favourite thing about working with The Access Group is how easy it is. They don’t make things difficult, and we’ve had a great connection and relationship with them since our initial meeting. The team go out of their way to support us in making positive changes for our people. They make things happen for us, and for that, we are incredibly grateful.
Part of our market-leading Governance, Risk and Compliance suite
Environmental, Social and Governance training is just one of many areas in which businesses must ensure compliance. Our comprehensive, accredited Governance, Risk and Compliance training covers a broad range of subjects to help businesses achieve and remain compliant, creating a great place to work for everyone.
This training enables employees to understand and adhere to relevant laws, regulations, and industry standards. This reduces the risk of legal repercussions and safeguards the reputation and financial stability of your organisation, while ensuring sustainable and responsible business practices.
● Over 40 multi-sector compliance training courses included spanning legal, financial services, care and more
● CPD accredited and produced and written by industry-specific subject matter experts
● Engaging and accessible content, including real-life scenarios and bitesize modules
● End of course assessments to ensure knowledge retention and provide effective reporting to governing bodies
● Robust reporting and powerful tracking to ensure compliance and peace of mind.
A holistic approach to governance and compliance, encompassing ESG training alongside a wide array of Governance, Risk and Compliance courses, is crucial for businesses in maintaining its reputation and building strong and successful teams.
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ESG training FAQs
What is an ESG strategy?
An ESG strategy is a strategy for implementing policies and practices that improve a business’ sustainability and social responsibility, relating to the three pillars of ESG: Environment, Social and Governance.
An ESG strategy might include how a business plans to reduce its carbon emissions output or even achieve net zero emissions, its plans around diversity and inclusion, fair labour practices, stakeholder interaction and integration and the business’ commitment to transparency.
Ultimately, an ESG strategy sets out a business’ ESG objectives and how it plans to achieve them.
What is ESG data?
ESG data includes metrics and information relating to Environmental, Social and Governance factors such as carbon emissions output or employee turnover rates.
Other ESG data could include diversity statistics, executive compensation structures or community engagement initiatives, for example.
ESG data is used to convey a business’ performance relating to ESG to investors, employees and other stakeholders.
What is ESG reporting?
ESG reporting is the disclosure of Environmental, Social and Governance data and presents the business’ ESG performance and its sustainable business practices and initiatives in line with ESG reporting standards.
An ESG report is often published publicly as part of ESG reporting by the organisation, ensuring transparency in its attempts to improve or maintain strong ESG practices, which in itself is a core component of the Governance pillar of the framework.
ESG reporting also helps the organisation form better relationships with stakeholders through this transparency and by highlighting the work being done by the business to improve its ESG performance.
How do I get my company ESG certified?
Organisations that are ESG certified typically adopt an appropriate ESG strategy, work to cut down their carbon footprint, invest in their community and maintain appropriate transparency with all stakeholders.
It’s particularly important for businesses looking to be ESG certified to report on their ESG metrics, KPIs and activities accurately, transparently and to ESG reporting standards.
Carrying out all these activities is no mean feat, which is why it’s important for businesses to provide effective ESG training that enables leaders to develop appropriate ESG strategies and gather the correct and required information to report on ESG activities effectively and transparently.
How do you involve employees in ESG?
Getting buy-in and establishing a culture of sustainability is crucial to any organisation achieving its ESG objectives.
Removing barriers to ESG initiatives, helping employees educate themselves about ESG and enabling employees to carry out ESG initiatives are all effective ways of involving employees in ESG.
Providing ESG training online and making education accessible for all is an extremely effective way to achieve all of the above and to help the business achieve its ESG targets.