ISEP Sustainability Skills for Managers Online Course

The Institute of Sustainability and Environmental Professionals (ISEP) is the leading professional body providing support and guidance to environment and sustainability professionals all over the world. If you're a manager, this ISEP Sustainability Skills for Managers Online Course gives you all the tools you need to raise awareness throughout your organisation, foster positive attitudes within your team, and help you implement sustainable practices that drive change.

You'll learn what your responsibilities are under UK legislation, how efficient resourcing and recycling can boost profits, and how to reduce pollution. Managers wanting to build wider workforce buy-in should also look at the ISEP Sustainability Skills for the Workforce Online Course, which extends similar principles to employees across the organisation.

This self-paced e-learning course can be completed in your own time and will take 15-20 hours to complete. Delegates wanting an even broader foundation before this course may find the ISEP Foundation Certificate in Environmental Management Online Course a useful starting point, covering core sustainability principles this managers' course then builds on.

Delegates must finish their training, including the exam, within 6 months of the commencement date. Results are received instantly on completion of the exam, and certification can take up to 4 weeks.

By the end of this online ISEP Sustainability Skills for Managers Online Course, you will:

• Recognise the economic risks associated with environmental issues
• Understand the opportunities that sustainable practices bring your business
• Explain your responsibilities under UK legislation and compliance
• Understand business drivers for change, and how to evaluate them
• Describe the barriers to drivers for change
• Know the impact that environment and sustainability can have on the economy
• Demonstrate how to improve the environmental performance of your business
• Analyse baseline data, monitoring progress and improving performance
• Manage environmental sustainability across the value chain
• Understand how well-managed resources impact your bottom line
• Inspire employees to actively improve environmental performance

This self-led e-learning ISEP Sustainability Skills for Managers Online Course covers the following topics:

1: Risks and opportunities from environmental sustainability, including what environmental sustainability is, what causes major environmental issues, and the benefits of good environmental performance

2: Laws and other compliance obligations, including environmental regulators, methods of enforcement, statutory requirements and international environmental agreements

3: Environmental sustainability issues, including pollution types and definitions, pollution prevention, and the key principles of environmental management systems

4: Improving environmental sustainability performance, including practical steps employees can take and organisational environmental management structure

5: Control of emissions to air, including how environmental sustainability impacts organisational growth

6: Control of environmental noise, including monitoring, analysing and improving business environmental performance

7: Control of contamination of water sources, including value creation and value chain evaluation

8: Control of waste and land use, including resource efficiency, resource consumption impact, and optimising efficiency

9: Sources and use of energy and energy efficiency, including communication channels, change management principles and engagement strategies

At the end of the ISEP Sustainability Skills for Managers Online Course, you'll take a multiple-choice test, with results issued instantly on completion. On successfully passing, you'll receive an ISEP Sustainability Skills for Managers certificate. Please note that certificates can take up to 4 weeks to be issued by the awarding body.