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Sophie LambinOct 25, 2024 6:08:23 PM1 min read

This means us | The upskilling elephant in the room

Training employees on sustainability topics can be hard.

We get this and we want to help. 

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We’re excited to tell you about the amazing new courses we’ve developed. But before we do, we thought we should first acknowledge the elephant in the room – that sustainable transformation is hard. Engaging employees on learning and development is challenging – even if it’s good for them and for your company. 

What does this resistance sound like?

  • “I know this training is important, but I just don’t have capacity right now,” they might say. 
  • Or, “I’m trying to earn enough to be financially stable, support my family, and pay off my education loans. I don’t have the space to take on sustainability initiatives at work”.
  • Or, “I don’t really believe my company is serious about climate action, and I think my climate energy is better spent elsewhere – like my local community”.

 

What’s the secret ingredient
to fostering action?

Taking small actions and seeing others take action on climate helps us develop collective agency, suggests King’s College London neuroscientist Kris de Meyer.

At Kite, we took those lessons to heart when we designed our new e-learning courses.

  • Graphic-novel storytelling and real-world case studies enable learners to envision themselves as employees trying to bring about change.
  • Scenario-based questions based on real problems raise the emotional stakes and help people retain what they’ve learned.
  • Function-specific actions guide teams to act in their day-to-day roles, giving them a sense of hope, agency and purpose.

Our new courses

We’re offering three courses, each comprising two hours of e-learning:

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Tailored learning =
enhanced business performance

Each of these courses can be customised with case studies and examples from your industry or sector, to make them even more relevant and resonant to your people.

We’ve also partnered with our friends at Change by Degrees to offer a course that helps employees understand, comply with, and see fresh opportunities in the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive, or CSRD.

These are complemented by our signature Kite Impact course (6h of e-learning on sustainability foundations) and Kite Compact course (1.5h of e-learning).

How can we help design a learning package
that’s right for your organisation?

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