Changing good intention into consistent behaviour

"More and more companies are waking up to the view that climate change can be a way of motivating and empowering employees by letting them know that they can make a difference."
Jim Haywood, Business in the Community director of environment.

NGL's unique approach places an emphasis on fun and the gently competitive involvement of the whole team to get them interested, motivated and taking part. This all helps to boost morale and make it worthwhile.

Workgreen's 'X' factor is its ability to change good intention into consistent behaviour using a carefully crafted, but simple process to get a conversation going and gently encourage people to be involved in doing their bit. The effect is to generate a positive peer pressure to improve green performance and keep in place good practices, leaving you free to concentrate on your priorities.

Workgreen^® Discussions

Workgreen puts your green message into four Discussions covering each of the key green topics, making it easy for your team to take part without being overloaded. Running these consistently with their simple follow up activity and displaying the Workgreen office materials gives you a steady "drip, drip" approach to raising awareness and influencing behaviour. This has been proven to have a far greater impact than the occasional training course - and it doesn't need time off or a training room!

Programme coverage

Workgreen's coverage of the key green topics:

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How green are we?

Measures current behaviour, identifies the areas to tackle and acts as a check on future progress.

Don't be a Waster!
Reduce your use

On minimising wasteful practices and using energy and office resources wisely.

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Don't be a Waster!
Switch off

Highlights equipment running costs and actions to 'switch off' and cut back on use.

Recycle and Reuse

Raises awareness of the types of materials that can be recycled and reused to help increase team participation.

Manageable bite-sized chunks

A typical Discussion takes about 20 minutes and places an emphasis on getting everyone involved. They cater for all learning styles and abilities, so no one will feel left out.

Facilitated by their supervisor or a 'green champion' a small group from your team would work in pairs to do a fun and engaging activity around one of the green topics. This leads into a short discussion about what they currently do and importantly, what they will now try to do to improve or change behaviour.

Afterwards there's a short piece of follow up by the 'green champion' to keep the conversation going and check on progress. This involvement builds credibility for your initiative and keeps it relevant to the team.

Complete green campaign

Workgreen gives you everything you need to run a year-round campaign to change your green performance.

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Training Pack
Set of Workgreen Discussion exercise packs customised to your branding and key messages…

Green Business Pack
To help you get the best out of your total campaign plus guidance on good 'green' business practice…

Office Pack
To help raise awareness and spread the word…

Getting policy into action

There are plenty of benefits in being greener, but getting people on board and strategies in place can be difficult - it's a struggle to turn policy into action!

Envirowise estimate that only a third of small firms are trying to reduce their environmental impact while a British Chambers of Commerce survey showed that just a third of businesses provide training on reducing emissions.

Workgreen, however, is an easy to do solution to all the usual concerns about finding the time and resource, or getting the team motivated and seeing results.

With Workgreen^® it's easy

A Workgreen programme can easily fit into your daily routine. At its heart are easy to run Discussions that take about 20 minutes to do with a small group around the desks, whenever time allows.

Each Discussion follows a standard pattern and doesn't require any 'trainer training', just good intention and enthusiasm. There's no specialist knowledge needed either as everything is provided on how to run a session and follow it up.

Clear briefs give you everything from preparing well, to hints and tips on getting a good response and even 'Green Knowledge' to give extra interest and back up.

Workgreen^® is cost effective

The reductions in energy and resource use that result, can save hundreds of pounds, per person per year - saving far more than the licence cost for the programme.

NGL offers a one year licence fee basis for Workgreen, so that you can fix your costs up front, leaving you free to get on with your green initiatives when it suits you.

Workgreen's licensed programme covers everything needed to run an interesting and fun campaign with a full business and training support package included.

Your message

Supplied as a CD for you to share and print from as you need, the licence includes customising by NGL to your branding and key messages as well as the use of the Workgreen 'approved' logo to place on your own material and show your green commitment to others.

To find out more contact sales@workgreen.co.uk.

Changing good intention into consistent behaviour

Workgreen® Discussions