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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.

What is ESG and why is it important for your business?

Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) is a set of practices and metrics used to evaluate a company, often by investors and other stakeholders. These take into account its impact on the natural environment, interactions with stakeholders and local communities and the systems and structures that guide corporate behaviour and decision-making.

ESG is becoming increasingly important for all businesses in improving performance and investability. Research by PwC found that 92% of executives agree that companies with commitments to ESG policies will outlast competitors without.

Important for businesses of all sizes, ESG ensures organisations retain and improve their reputation, improve cost efficiencies, stakeholder relations and ultimately the investability, and therefore access to capital, of the business.

Our ESG training catalogue includes

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

How to choose the right ESG training for your businesses

There are key factors that may determine the right ESG training for your business.

Key considerations should include what your current sustainability targets are, the industry within which you operate, the location of your workforce and the current maturity of your sustainable business practices and culture.

Finding ESG training that can be accessed easily by a remote or dispersed workforce, is comprehensive enough to help meet your sustainability goals and broad enough to consider the nuances of your industry is crucial.

Our ESG training is split into two distinct areas Governance and Compliance and Environmental and Social. Both combine to comprehensively cover the topics of Compliance and ESG, providing effective guidance on each area regardless of your business’ current maturity or culture.

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.

Bob Gordon, Director of the Zero Carbon Forum

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.

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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

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Philippa Grocott - Head of Regulatory Sales and Apprenticeships

ZISHI

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

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Beth Coombs - Learning and Development Lead

Hamberley Care Homes

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.

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Laura Eaton - eLearning & Development Consultant

RAC

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.