Strategic Direction in a Competitive Environment

Format Option Examples

Half-Day Workshop

Two Day Workshop

Basic information with class discussion, one role-playing exercise and one breakout exercise

In-depth coverage of half-day topics, plus ten additional topics and activities, including a unique business simulation.

Topics and Activities

• The six major formative events

• Participant discussion

• Disconnects between EHS functions and business management philosophy; Role-play exercise
• Current trends in EHS organizations
• Conflicting motives and organizational change
  

• EHS as a means of adding value to the organization
• Leveraging the audit function for purpose and value
• Centralize or decentralize?: Bases for choosing and real world experience
• Participant discussion
  

• Emerging global trends and impacts on companies; Breakout exercise

• Sustainability and Sustainable Development: The Hype vs The Hope
• Organizational Learning: Basics, practices and experience
  

• Positioning EHS for competitive advantage
• EHS influence in the supply chain
• Strategic Advantage vs Cost Advantage
• Implications for EHS in the future
  
  

• Implications for EHS in the future; breakout exercise
• Environmental Issues, Events and Trends: Impacts on Future Markets and Products; presentation, discussion and a business simulation

• Ten established and emerging techniques for EHS strategy development
• What else is "hot"?; class discussion

• Cost/Benefit and Risk Assessment Tools: Summary of capabilities and cost; class discussion

Wrap-up, review and closing comments