Introduction

Global Action Plan has been working with large organisations for a decade, facilitating organisation wide focus on environmental and efficiency issues and enabling behaviour change.

Global Action Plan will run a 3-4 hour workshop to assist your ICT department to lead in:

• Assessing how to reduce the energy and resource consumption of ICT systems, software, hardware and procurement
• Devising a strategy for ICT to help improve the efficiency of all departments across the whole organisation, enabling all staff to reduce their environmental impacts

Workshop Objectives

The Workshop can be delivered in two ways – either as an internal ICT department session for 7 to 15 staff, or as a cross-departmental workshop to include 10 to 20 staff from all departments, with a healthy representation of ICT staff.

In either scenario, the workshop will:

• Provide staff with a greater understanding of climate change and environmental issues, clarifying the link between their activities and climate change;
• Arm ICT staff with the tools and the confidence to be the drivers of environmental change within their business;
• Assess the current performance of ICT systems, software, hardware and procurement and prioritise areas for improvement to reduce the environmental impact of IT;
• Create an action plan to explore ways in which the ICT department can use its knowledge and expertise to assist other staff and departments to improve their working efficiency and reduce wasteful activities.

Examples may include:

• Educating other departments in storing data and using equipment efficiently
• Introducing new technologies to the organisation
• Encouraging use of tools that are currently available
• Designing processes to be more electronic and less paper intensive

Process

The training day would be preceded by a conversation between Global Action Plan and the Head of your ICT department so that Global Action Plan can assess the likely topics to be discussed at the training event. During this conversation Global Action Plan may request certain high level information regarding the organisation’s ICT systems to inform the content of the training day.

The customer will also agree with Global Action Plan at this stage:

• whether the workshop will be for ICT staff only, or wider departments
• a venue and start time for the workshop
• content and running order for the workshop
• approximate number of attendees

At least three days before the workshop, the customer will provide Global Action Plan with a confirmed list of attendees, including job roles.

Further Information

If you would like more information about this workshop or working with Global Action Plan in other ways to green your organisation then please contact greenit@globalactionplan.org.uk