Does my company need Chronos?
"Chronos is an excellent and engaging
learning tool providing a cost-effective way to disseminate these
vital ideas to our staff."
Mark Wade, Royal Dutch/Shell Group of
Companies.
Take a look at the following questions to
decide how your company would benefit from Chronos.
Who receives sustainable development training in your
organisation?
The usual targets for sustainable development training
are staff in specialist environmental roles, senior decision makers
and new employees, yet in reality the ideas affect everybody's
work. The challenge is to move sustainable development out of its
specialist box into the mainstream – to make it relevant
and meaningful to a much larger number of employees. This is where
Chronos fits in. Accessible on the Internet or
CD-ROM, Chronos can be deployed at all levels
across your organisation at low cost.
What does your current sustainable development training
look like?
Many training programmes on sustainable
development focus on particular parts of the debate – sometimes
very well. But dealing separately with issues like environmental
management, employee welfare and innovation misses the opportunity
to present an integrated strategy. Oversimplifying the issues
should also be avoided as this can lead to poor strategies or
complacency. Preparing employees for complexity should be a goal of
any training course on sustainable development. Chronos takes full
account of this.
Does your training help to produce sustainable
development leaders?
Sustainable development looks easy on
paper – the integration of social, economic and
environmental performance. In reality the line between sustainable
and unsustainable business performance is often blurred, with each
stakeholder taking a different view. Experience and judgement are
key factors in decision-making, and neither is a guaranteed outcome
of conventional training. That is why Chronos encourages learners
to reflect on personal experiences and experiment with decisions to
prepare themselves for real situations.