We're excited to announce that the Get Sustainable Challenge (GSC) is now open for registration. This online system provides businesses with an entry point to the 2010 Sustainable Business Network Awards. It's now much faster and less expensive to undertake the Get Sustainable Challenge assessment - we have spent time working with key experts and streamlined the questions making it easier for you to work through. It is now a self-assessment which you can do at your own pace - stop, start, and save as you go.
The assessment is made up of the following ten sections; each section is made up of 'agree' or 'disagree' statements, followed by a series of questions requiring further information about your current sustainability policies, practices and behaviours. If you chose to enter the Sustainable Business Network Awards, you will be asked to supply evidence in the form of documentation or examples relating to the ten sections.
It is anticipated the Get Sustainable Challenge assessment will take you approximately 5 - 7 hours in total to complete, but each section can be worked on individually. The programme runs from April - November 2010. If you decide to enter the Sustainable Business Network Awards your completed assessment must be submitted to your Regional Manager no later than mid August for judging.
Click here for the link for the Get Sustainable Challenge fees.
The ten sections of the Get Sustainable Challenge assessment are:
1. Governance and Strategies
Vision, stakeholder engagement and policy development
2. Future Thinking
Key sector trends, risks and challenges
3. Management Commitment
Accountability, values and objectives
4. Staff
Behaviours, well being and incentives
5. Resources
Purchasing and suppliers
6. Business Systems
Measuring and monitoring
7. Products
Life Cycle thinking
8. Services
Upstream and downstream thinking
9. Relationships and Influence
Broad community awareness and development
10. Communications
Internal and external activity
Click here to register for the Get Sustainable Challenge!
