The ARL approach to Sustainability

LIM’s Sustainability: Doing Well by Doing Good Workshop provides your organization with a focused, swift and powerful process for identifying undetected savings or earnings opportunities within a team or unit, that can contribute to the bottom line while improving the environmental footprint of the organization. In addition, using our Action Reflection Learning™ approach known as Earning While Learning, the participants, organized in small task forces, will develop valuable competencies and tools. The best news is that you don’t need a special budget for this workshop. Our experience is that the savings generated by the proposed solutions more than cover the costs involved.

Key aspects of this workshop include:

• Generating objective assessment of the cause and effect of sustainability opportunities.

• Capturing the lessons learned during the process of assessment.

• Obtaining input from key stakeholders.

• Evaluating strategic and operational options.

• Selection of the best strategy and a detailed action plan.

This one-day workshop is facilitated by a LIM Learning Coach, who helps team members work on the task while learning key principles, tools and techniques for addressing similar challenges in the future.

 What are the workshop outcomes?

By the end of the workshop, the team or task force will have:

1. Identified some "low-hanging" saving/earning opportunities.

2. Worked on selected opportunities and established an action plan with clear next steps, and assigned responsibilities with a time line.

3. Demonstrated understanding and use of the Power Planning Process, a creative problem-solving tool.

4. Discovered more efficient ways of utilizing time that enhances innovation and ensures full engagement of all key stakeholders.

5. Learned new processes for effective team work.

6. Explored the potential of a new perspective that combines results on the triple bottom line: people, profits and Planet.

 How is the workshop designed?

The design of the Sustainability: Doing Well by Doing Good workshop focuses on the following elements:

• A summary of potential saving / earning opportunities collected through a survey of participants prior to the workshop.

• Each workshop is co-designed by the client and LIM to ensure a healthy mixture of knowledge, expertise and objectivity that will result in a solution based upon facts, innovative thinking (and solid ownership).

• Participants work in either intact teams or in a task force assembled for this purpose.

• LIM Coaches introduce the Power Planning Process and other practical concepts, tools and techniques that will help participants work on the challenge.

• Participants learn how to listen and respond to differing viewpoints while developing a mindset that sees challenges and problems as the inspiration for innovation.

• Participants establish clear next steps — who will do what by when.

• Participants evaluate the process and results of the workshop so that they can apply the principles, tools and techniques to other work situations.

Who will benefit?

• Members of the team

• Both internal and external customers

• The organization or unit affected

• The environment and/or the community.