Understanding the challenge ahead: measuring, collecting and analyzing
Understanding the challenge ahead: measuring, collecting and analyzing
level 2 school workshop
Designed for: School CFOs, Business Managers, Bursars, Facility Managers, Maintenance Managers and their teams
Delivery: Live with workshop leader. Online
Dates: Flexible. Arranged with school
Prerequisites: Level 1 course completed
Length: 1 school day and follow up
Investment: US$1,750
About this workshop
In order to understand the action required, schools like yours need to take a good hard look at their current organization and infrastructure to deeply understand the state of play before moving forward. Ensuring the right data is collected and that it is correctly interpreted is critical and this forms the foundation of this essential workshop.
What this workshop covers
In this workshop we take an in-depth look at the process of selecting collecting and analysing the data required to make informed decisions around the best route forward. Together, we will build a concrete detailed picture of where your school current stands and identify the complete range of high impact actions that coule be undertanken in order to achieve improved operational efficiency, medium term cost reductions and carbon reduction.
What you’ll do and learn
Before the workshop begins
Your team will be asked to collect a range of critical raw data before the workshop begins. This data will be a core part of the workshop sessions. Data collected will come from the following realms:
- Finance & purchasing
- Transportation
- Facilities & maintenance
- Additional services
Session 1: Collecting the data that matters
Why sustainability is good for schools and the importance of clear leadership in achieving change.
- Discuss the sustainability-related risks and opportunities that schools are currently facing and the commercial imperative for sustainability
- Examine how finance and operations each individually, and in collaboration, have a role to play in delivering sustainable outcomes
- Investigate the cost of inaction specifically relate it to mission, finance and futures.
- Illustrate how sustainability initiatives act as a driver for innovation and competitive advantage
- Debate the role of schools in promoting sustainable development
- Create a business case for sustainability for your own organisation
Session 2: Assessing your school's carbon footprint
Understanding your current context and the measurement tools required to build data based models, generating picture of current organizational position.
- Explore the data required to build a clear picture of your organization’s current profile
- Explore how to collect actual and historical data and understand the limitations of both this data and the data collection process
- Use tools to build a detailed understanding of the major areas of organisational focus
- Understand the different modelling approaches & limitations of the modelling tools
Session 3: Interpreting & analyzing the data
Taking the data a building a picture of the way forward.
- Identify the range of potential levers of change that could be applied to achieve sustainability goals
- Recognise the range of different approaches to sustainable operations that schools can influence
- Discuss how schools can challenge current operational practices
- Identify the degree to which schools have a responsibility to educate and influence stakeholders on sustainable consumption to shape future consumption patterns
- Identify the possible road ahead that leads to systemic change
Session 4: Building a shared, communicable picture
How to effectively fund, communicate and achieve sustainability strategies and goals with internal and external stakeholders.
- Discuss the benefits of and challenges to effectively communicating a common narrative across the school and to its stakeholders to achieve its sustainability goals
- Identify the ways in which financing can be used a vehicle for mission driven operational change
- Discuss the behaviour changes required in order to make cahnge permanent
Next steps...
The possible action steps required to translate thinking and discussion into action.
- Identify the key stakeholders that need to be onboard
- Discuss the next steps to achieve positive action
- Identify individual, personal commitments
What concrete outcomes can you expect from this workshop
You can expect a range of positive outcome to result from this workshop including:
Quality Data Collected
A deeper understanding of the challenges and opportunities assocated with systemic change
Informed, Data Driven Dialog
Moving your team away from opinion and towards a data driven discussion
An Informed Picture Built
You team will build a clear and informed picture of the data collected & its implications
Clear Focus For Action Planning
The process of making change happen will be informed and shared
Who you will learn with
This subject matter expert from the CNSF Institute for Sustainability Leadership guides the course design and appears in a number of course videos, along with a variety of experts in the the associated fields.
Neil is the Executive Director at the Carbon Neutral School Foundation and is one of the world’s leading experts on efficiently decarbonization school operations.
He has extensive knowledge and experience in working with schools across the globe on sustainability opportunities and challenges, helping them to understand the power of putting a 21st century approach to seeing mission, vision, operational efficiency and sustainability at the heart educational their establishment.
This course is for you if you want to?
Drive positive change
Enhance your leadership skills and learn new tools to effectively argue the business case for sustainability.
Improve your school
Build a practical action plan for overcoming barriers and seizing the opportunities to embed sustainability in your school.
Build your team
Enhance your leadership skills and learn new tools to effectively argue the business case for sustainability.
About the certificate of participation
Upon successful completion of the course, you’ll earn a certificate of participation from a world-leading sustainability institution, the CNSF Institute for Sustainability Leadership.
Your certificate will be issued in your legal name and sent to you upon successful completion of the course, as per the stipulated requirements.
Technical Requirements
Basic requirements
In order to complete this course, you’ll need a current email account and access to a computer and the internet, as well as a PDF Reader. You may need to view Microsoft PowerPoint presentations, and read and create documents in Microsoft Word or Excel.
Browser requirements
We recommend that you use Google Chrome as your internet browser when accessing the Online Campus. Although this is not a requirement, we have found that this browser performs best for ease of access to course material. This browser can be downloaded here.
Additional requirements
Certain courses may require additional software and resources. These additional software and resource requirements will be communicated to you upon registration and/or at the beginning of the course. Please note that Google, Vimeo, and YouTube may be used in our course delivery, and if these services are blocked in your jurisdiction, you may have difficulty in accessing course content. Please check with an Enrolment Advisor before registering for this course if you have any concerns about this affecting your experience with the Online Campus.
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