BIZZ Transition Workshops
BIZZ Transition Workshops are tailor made participative in-company training workshops. They are especially designed to strengthening the capacities of companies for enhancing social innovations which are needed for a transition towards human-centred sustainable development.
The objectives of a BIZZ Transition workshop are:
The exchange of expertise on socially, ecologically and economically sound and sustainable business processes among the participants of the workshop
Knowledge building on policies, strategies and tools for ethical entrepreneurship and good corporate governance
Development of skills for transition management.
The target groups for BIZZ Transition Workshops are higher and middle management staff of business, members of worker’s councils and trade union groups in companies, directors, shareholders and other key stakeholders of companies. The ideal workshops is gender balanced. In case of male-dominated companies, a solution has to be found to ensure that at least 30% of the participants are knowledgeable women.
Through this workshop the participants will obtain:
Knowledge and insight on:
The causes of the global social crisis (poverty and gender gap), the care crisis, the financial crisis, the climate change, the ‘Peak Oil’ crisis and the long term challenges of this multiple crisis for business
the historical origins and paradigms of the current economic model and its advantages and disadvantages for business
international treaties, political commitments and indicators for globalizing human-centered sustainable development and their relevance for business.
Skills and tools for transition management at company level
Attitudes that enable them
To explore their role and responsibilities in the process of transition towards multi-dimensional business processes based on a people-planet-profit approach
To share their own opinions and visions on what it means to take consciously part in a process of transition towards a new historic era.
BIZZ Transition Workshops are participative and help companies to define their vision, strategy and goals for ethical entrepreneurship and corporate governance that fits in the new economic era of human-centered sustainable development.
The outcome of a BIZZ Transition Workshop is a company-owned transition plan, which may include:
A strategic vision and new goals for the future
A Performance Assessment Framework (PAF) with feasible company targets and indicators
A plan for a people-planet-profit budgeting process
A benchmark for relevant labels or social-ecological indicators to be included in the Annual Accounts of the company.
Companies who implement the Transition Plan will contribute to the eradication of poverty, to the promotion of the quality of life for all, and ecological sustainability; they will establish equitable and sustainable economic, financial, social en environmental relations among employees, clients, directors, shareholders, suppliers, banks, competitors and other stakeholders.
BIZZ Transition is a fascinating challenge for companies who are ready to convert their short term profit thinking into long term strategic thinking about how to contribute to human sustainable development. BIZZ Transition is a process of smart business, as it enhances the internal motivation and ‘good feelings’ of the employees, and generates goodwill among clients, suppliers, governments, and trade unions.
Transition management will increase the chances of companies to survive the current multiple crisis and will increase their opportunities in the new economic era of globalization of human-centered sustainable development.
Is your company ready for a BIZZ Transition Workshop? Please contact us!
