Can Profitability & Sustainability be achieved together?
What is Celemi Sustainability™
Celemi Sustainability™ is a business simulation which allows participants to discover how a company can be profitable and sustainable. Participants working in teams need to drive a sustainability transformation for a fictional company, achieving success across a ‘Triple Bottom Line’ of People, Planet and Profit. The facilitated experience shrinks a 10-year timeframe into a 3-hour to 1-day session during which participants will:
- Learn to assess a company’s performance today by discovering the scope, people and measures that define sustainability
- Act as advisors to a fictional company transforming their sustainability performance in a simulated environment
- Learn together through the simulation feedback, each other’s experiences and facilitator debrief
During Celemi Sustainability™, participants get to experience the greatest challenge in business today by stepping into the driving seat of a sustainability transformation.
“Now I understand it’s much more complex and a much broader topic than what I thought at first.
The purpose of this training for me is to explain that this topic is related to people, planet, and profit, and not just climate change as you would think at first. The level of awareness of most participants is raised for sure.”
Experiential Learning via Business Simulations
In a business simulation, professionals work together to consider new information presented to them, then make decisions, plan strategies and take action. Participants get to control the outcome! They also gain instant feedback about their actions and are guided in meaningful assessments and analysis, thus learning from each other.
The challenge: teams start by exploring what sustainability is and why it is important, before taking on the role of advisors to a simulated company called Omnia, to execute a sustainability transformation.
During the simulation participants collaborate and take decisions to improve Omnia’s sustainability performance. Factors teams must consider include:
- Prioritizing change initiatives with a limited budget
- Impact on people, planet and profit – across the whole value chain
- Expectations of customers, employees and society
- Finding synergies to succeed against several measures
- Balancing short-term and long-term targets
- Risks with making the transformation – or delaying it
KEY CONCEPTS
Scope and language of sustainability
Sustainability change initiatives
Business value through sustainability
Success factors for long-term transformation
Risk and opportunities
How you, as an employee, can make a difference
Real-world Results
Effective business simulations build on the same business drivers that are relevant to your business or industry. “The win” in a business simulation should not come from a simple change in strategy (e.g., introducing a new advertising campaign), but rather from a series of decisions that consider all aspects of the operation-finance, marketing, production, and more.
A Range of Perspectives
Business simulations provide the ultimate arrangement for bringing together different skill sets and thus, different perspectives. An accountant might find himself on the same team as a marketing director and a quality control manager. Each brings a different point of view to the simulation and learns even more when taking a role outside of his or her comfort zone.
Factsheet
Download the Celemi™ Sustainability Factsheet here.
“Celemi Sustainability™ does an excellent job of simplifying complex topics, connecting to realistic business activities and demonstrating the interconnectedness of ESG strategies. I would recommend this experience to any leader that wants to build environmental, social and governance competencies within their organization.”
Dora Lutz, GivingSpring