6 What are the best ways of engaging employees?

Engaging employees in climate change is just like any other management initiative. Key actions to engage employees in any initiative include:

• Full senior management commitment and leading by example;
• SMART objectives;
• Access to information and training if required;
• Employee support;
• Good communication throughout business, covering aims and objectives, status of plan, benchmarking with other businesses, reward;
• Encouragement to form individual action plans.

More information is available on these websites:

• Business Green advice on engaging employees in green initiative [Tip: hold Ctrl and click a link to open it in a new tab. (Hide tip)] ;
• CSR case study EDF energy;
• Energy Savings Trust - A personalised action plan to cut CO2 emissions;
• Do the Green thing Network