An Intensive 10-day Training Course
Sustainable Finance & Leadership
Modules
This course is split in two modules:
Module 1: Sustainable Leadership
Module 2: Sustainable Finance
Each module is structured and can be taken as a stand-alone training course; however, delegates will maximise their benefits by taking Module 1 and 2 back-to-back as a 2-week training course.
Course Outline
Module 1: Sustainable Leadership
DAY1
Sustainable Leadership & the Triple Bottom Line
- What is a sustainable leader?
- Key competencies of sustainable leaders
- PPP - the triple bottom line: people, planet, profit
- Behaviours of sustainable leaders
- Engaging with and identifying stakeholders
Day 2
Responsibility & The New Normal
- Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
- Cultural Differences with CSR
- Leading by example
- Employer-supported volunteering (ESV)
Day 3
Communication Skills for Sustainable Leaders
- Identifying and removing the main barriers to communication
- Developing your Emotional Intelligence (EI)
- Active listening skills and asking the right questions
- SOLER Technique for interviewing and meetings
- Future Leaders – Generational Differences
Day 4
Mastering Problem-Solving & Decision Making
- Identify the cause(s) of a problem (CATWOE, repetitive why)
- Using cause-and-effect analysis
- Organise, analyse, and prioritise ideas (affinity diagram & PMI)
- The science of making the decision (Vroom-Jago Decision Model)
- Using force-field analysis to implement decisions
Day 5
Creativity, Innovation and Your Career
- Understanding creativity
- The science of innovation
- Disruptive innovation
- Your career – using the B-SWOT tool
- Your personal development plan
Module 2: Sustainable Finance
Day 6
Fundamentals of Sustainable Finance
- Principles and foundation of sustainable finance
- Environmental issues and concerns
- Social issues and concerns
- Governance issues and concerns
- Ethical issues and concerns
- Defining organisational scope for sustainable finance
Day 7
Sustainable Strategic Management
- Concepts of stakeholder value
- The purpose of competitive companies
- Principles and practice in corporate governance
- Redefining competitive business strategy
- Understanding business models and their disruption
- Identifying key success factors
- Using strategy maps to identify key performance indicators
Day 8
Accounting and Reporting Sustainable Finance
- The traditional financial analysis toolkit
- Conventional measures of stakeholder value
- Selecting the right key performance measures
- Designing internal reports on sustainable finance
- Principles of Integrated Reporting (IR)
Day 9
Business Investment and Sustainable Finance
- The challenges of sustainable investment
- Scenarios for business model reinvention
- Key decision factors for sustainable financial investment
- Traditional tools of investment appraisal
- Factoring in the environmental and social dimension
- Limitations of conventional investment appraisal methods
Day 10
Risk and Scope of Sustainable Finance
- Traditional approaches to understanding business risk
- Risk aspects from a sustainable finance perspective
- Sustainable finance developments in banking
- Sustainable finance developments in financial investments
- Financial modelling of risk under sustainable finance conditions
- The way forward in sustainable finance
Certificate
Oxford Management Centre Certificate will be provided to delegates who successfully completed the training course.
Accreditation
In association with
Duration
10 Days
Format
Classroom
Language
English
Certificate
Yes
