Are you looking to improve your knowledge around your businesses impact on the environment, or allow your business to benefit from an enhanced carbon reduction strategy?
Sustainability for Senior Leaders holds a wealth of opportunities for businesses and the self-employed to improve the impact of a business and keep up with ever-changing trends, as well as providing unlimited career options for those who possess these increasingly in-demand skills.
What to Expect
Skills Bootcamps in Sustainability for Senior Leaders are free to the learner courses, masterclasses take place weekly over the course of ten weeks, giving people the opportunity to build up sector-specific skills.
The Skills Bootcamps are fully funded for learners and are part of the Government’s Lifetime Skills Guarantee, helping everyone gain skills for life. They are designed to help teach and strengthen skills for anyone who wants to increase their business activity or up-skill in their current role, and grow and develop their business.
Skills Bootcamps – Sustainability for Senior Leaders will cover:
- The Climate Emergency – The Science
- Measuring and Reducing Carbon
- The Greenhouse Gas Protocol
- Behaviour Change
- Leadership and Change Management
- Digital Emissions
- Communication and Marketing
- Sustainability Certifications
Who are Skills Bootcamps – Sustainability for Senior Leaders for?
This course is for anyone from any background and stage in their life who wants to improve their knowledge and skills in Organisational Sustainability. These courses are designed for employees of any sized organisation looking to progress in the next step in their career, the self-employed looking to grow and develop their business, or those looking to boost their CV to improve their employability.
“The Skills Bootcamps helped me to develop my own creative knowledge and provided me with really useful digital tips and techniques.” Eileen Unwin EIU International Gem
Eligibility
Learners must either currently work or intend to work within Devon on completion of the Skills Bootcamps. They must be 19 years or above and to have not completed any other Skills Bootcamps starting within the current financial year.
How are Skills Bootcamps funded?
The Skills Bootcamps are part of the UK Government’s Lifetime Skills Guarantee, helping everyone gain skills for life, and are funded and managed by Devon County Council and delivered by YTKO through Building Growth.
Sessions will be held mainly online but to help you get to know your tutors and fellow participants, we hold initial in-person sessions. If you are unable to make any of these sessions, we can provide hybrid learning and access to recordings.