How can Chronos help your company learn about sustainability
and corporate social responsibility using online training?
Chronos is the first ever generally applicable e-learning tool
for business education in sustainability literacy. Chronos is
already being used by almost 200
organisations across the world, many of them Fortune
500 companies, for sustainable development decisions ans
sustainability e-learning.
- Chronos can be made available quickly, widely and
cost-effectively in English, Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish and Portuguese and can be used by
itself or as a companion to other learning methods.
- Chronos is accompanied by simulations, which may be used in
addition to the tutorial as guides and materials.
- Chronos can also be customised to reflect the needs of
individual companies, for example to include a message from a
company executive, or to add information about the company's own
sustainable development strategy.
Examples of how Chronos is used in different
companies
Chronos has been designed to get as many people as possible
across a company thinking. Different companies have used
Chronos for sustainability e-learning, for:
- training new employees;
- specific project teams;
- middle management; or in some cases
- the whole organisation.
Over 15 companies have customised Chronos, adapting it
to their own needs and including some of their own material.
- In Shell and Banco Real, Chronos is provided as pre-work
for a range of courses, workshops and modules in order to
accelerate and enrich the learning process.
- Philips and Heineken have introduced Chronos into the
induction programme to ensure all new company entrants understand
basic sustainability principles.
- In Rio Tinto employees are asked to evaluate the company
sustainable development policies using a customised version
of Chronos.
The world is under increasing pressure
from threats like climate destabilisation, growing populations,
growing social inequality, terrorism, loss of biodiversity, and
HIV/AIDS. These issues present serious risks to our societies,
including our businesses. I believe that by increasing our
understanding of sustainable development through tools like
Chronos, and by firming our commitment to society’s transition to
sustainable development, Rio Tinto can be seen more as part of the
solution to these problems.
Preston Chiaro, Chief Executive of Rio
Tinto’s Energy Group
- Dow uses Chronos as a prerequisite on their management training
courses to avoid isolating sustainable development issues.
- PepsiCo and Alcan have used the tool to inform internal
sustainability management workshops.