In a world grappling with the escalating impacts of climate change, the role of businesses in mitigating their environmental footprint has become more crucial than ever. Companies are increasingly recognizing the urgency to address their carbon emissions and contribute to global efforts to limit global warming.

Raise your hand if you’ve been on an office sustainability committee. Keep your hand up if it made your office sustainability initiatives incredibly effective. That’s what I thought. 

Are you budgeting for sustainability in 2021? If not, you’re missing out on a significant competitive advantage.

With all investments, company leadership focuses on ROI. Luckily with sustainability, there is significant data to show ROI in crucial areas like employee engagement, profitability and customer satisfaction. Let’s review some of the returns you can expect to see from a sustainability investment for 2021.

Employee engagement is one of those areas that's never "done." It's relentless and an ongoing task for founders and HR teams. So what can companies do to help increase employee engagement? What's a strategy that aligns with current employee engagement tools and increases engagement? Sustainability.

Use the power of Triple Bottom Line to boost employee engagement. Finding and integrating “People” strategies are just as important in creating a sustainability framework. This blog will focus on important people actions you can take as a small business owner.

After you’ve created an effective initiative, you need to get employees on board. After all, as we’ve talked about numerous times, employees complete sustainability tasks. Not a committee, the employees.

You’ve got your initiative set and ready to distribute. You know who should be doing it, so now it’s time to bring those people on board.

Sustainability is a grand idea and often involves a grand plan. The question remains- how do you do it? How do you enact sustainability in your business on a daily basis so that you can hit your goals and collect your data? The same way you get all of your other work done. Hint: your employees. Assign tasks, encourage feedback and sharing goals and results are all part of engaging employees in your small business.