Responding to what organisations need
Employee engagement is no longer a ’nice-to-have’, it is a ’must have’ if everyone is to understand what our sustainability impacts are, and how our people are going to deliver our targets. This is something the head of ESG can’t do alone; it has to be a multidisciplinary effort."
Ethical trade controller, multinational fashion retailer
The challenge
Research shows that over 95% of business leaders believe employee involvement is important to improving the sustainability of their organisation and delivering their sustainability strategy; yet almost two-thirds of employees have little or no involvement in their employers’ sustainability efforts.
OckiPro’s response
OckiPro is a flexible service designed to help professionals embed sustainability throughout their organisations. It provides tools, insights and events to educate, inspire and engage colleagues to play their part in delivering sustainability strategies and commitments.
We work closely with organisations that want to pursue best practices in sustainability engagement. Each element of our service responds to the challenges and needs discussed in our market research and roundtables. How can we help you? Email info@ockisustainability.com.
How OckiPro Helps
Organisations have developed ambitious sustainability strategies, but success depends on transformation and culture change
Sustainability managers are unable to deliver ambitious plans on their own. They need to engage individuals across the organisation
They need…
- the skills, know-how and allies to drive engagement
- tools to help prioritise and develop engagement initiatives and track their success
- access to best practice and learning opportunities
Employees want purpose, but struggle to understand their role in delivering the organisation’s sustainability strategy
They need to…
- build knowledge of sustainability issues relevant to their role and organisation
- understand how sustainability aligns with their core responsibilities and priorities
- feel empowered to take action at work
OckiPro drives sustainability engagement so your organisation can meet its commitments
Why OckiPro?
Connect & share
Gain expert insight into successful engagement approaches by connecting with peers via OckiPro’s roundtables and reading our case studies
Prioritise effectively
Identify priority issues and target groups of employees using OckiPro’s diagnostics and surveys to help you focus on delivering your sustainability commitments
Save time
Draw on OckiPro’s library of tools and insights to plan and fast track your approach, saving time to focus on driving results from engagement
Break down silos
Cascade engagement throughout your organisation, with tools and insights that ensure everyone takes responsibility for delivery
Empower employees
Help employees understand their role and empower them to act with access to independent information on sustainability
Demonstrate progress
Monitor, analyse and demonstrate the effectiveness of your engagement activities with our employee engagement survey and diagnostic
OckiPro's Client Solutions
Sustainability engagement recommendations
- Using Ocki's Sustainability engagement diagnostic tool we can help you to identify and prioritise activities to boost employee engagement, and track and celebrate progress.
Benefits
- See at a glance where your organisation is on its sustainability transition, identify strengths, weakness and gaps
- Identify priority actions for growing employee engagement and delivering on company strategy
Engagement playbook
- A practical handbook setting out effective strategies to raise employee awareness about sustainability, advice on driving engagement, and case studies from successful engagement programmes. To download a concise version of the Playbook click here.
Benefits
- Explore best practice for driving employee engagement relating to sustainability
- Access detailed and practical advice on how to drive engagement across your business whatever stage of the journey you are at
Tools library
- Employee Engagement Survey template and advice on interpreting the results
- Employee Engagement Plan template with suggested actions for driving engagement
- New tools added as they are developed following roundtables and on the basis of member feedback
For more information on OckiPro tools click here.
Benefits
- Save time with access to the templates you need to assess engagement levels, plan initiatives and measure and track progress
- Gain access to OckiPro’s development pipeline, feeding in your needs and preferences as new tools are created
Insights
- Get the skills articles
- Making allies articles
- Get the knowledge articles
- Making business case for sustainability articles
- Action articles for different functions
- Case studies
For more details on OckiPro insights click here.
Benefits
- Ensure that your business has the skills needed for success
- Break down internal silos to gain buy in, expert input and fast track engagement
- Explore in detail the commercial rationale for sustainability
- Provide different functions with a list of potential actions they can take
- Get inspiration and learn from the experiences of other organisations
Ocki for non-experts
- 25x Get the knowledge articles
- Over 100 news and feature articles, plus a growing library of infographics
- New content added weekly
Benefits
- Access carefully researched content to raise awareness of sustainability
- Get the lowdown on key issues – from human rights, to resource scarcity, to climate – helping to explain why they are material to your business
- Enhance your intranet or corporate training programmes with independent, accessible, balanced and well-researched information
Roundtables & workshops
- Regular roundtables and workshops (around 10 each per year)
- Live train-the-trainer for engagement and bespoke training.
For more information see here.
Benefits
- Exchange experiences, swap ideas with sustainability champions in other organisations
- Learn from peers what works and doesn’t work to drive engagement
- Provide input and influence Ocki's new service component developments
Access services flexibly and at your own pace
Self- serve
- Full access to OckiPro's website for Tools and Insights to support your employee sustainability engagement activities
- Join our Events to network and benefit from peer-to-peer learning
Plus
- Employee Engagement Playbook
- Licence to use Ocki's Newsdesk content internally to engage employees.
Supported services
OckiPro will assess your needs and tailor a plan to deliver progress on sustainability over an agreed timeframe – we take the heavy lifting of employee engagement off your shoulders.
- Exploratory session(s), plus Diagnostic Tool and/or Employee Engagement Survey to propose and agree your plan
- Supported use of OckiPro Insights, Tools and new Checklists to implement your plan
- Regular catch-ups and workshops to embed engagement
- End of plan assessment and agreement of next steps
- Access to OckiPro website resources and events
- Bespoke add-ons, such as training
Project delivery
If you have a specific objective or challenge, get OckiPro to deliver results
- Employee Survey, results, recommendations and follow up actions
- Engagement Diagnostic, results, recommendations and follow up actions
- Project Planner, creating a plan
- Strategy development for SMEs
- Training packages and other employee engagement activities
Free access is available to Newsdesk, Get the knowledge content, Communities and the Sustainability engagement diagnostic tool and assessment. Contact us to get a quote for our Client Services info@ockisustainability.com.
What people want and Ocki’s response…
People-focused engagement
“Embedding sustainability requires a shift in culture. To achieve that, we need to get into the hearts and minds of people,” Facilities manager, insurance business
“We are doing a lot of work around improving the staff experience to enhance retention. Sustainability and diversity and inclusion are a strong part of that,” Head of responsible business, financial services
“A lot of what's available on sustainability is either quite broad or too technical. The people who develop this information are not at the coalface in the business. To keep grounded, there needs to be a connection with experts in the business, to give them a voice in sustainability impacts and actions,” ESG lead, financial information business
Service response – Insights
OckiPro’s Insights provide accessible and trusted information designed to break down silos (Making allies), raise levels of knowledge across all sustainability topics (Get the knowledge), help people relate their roles to sustainability actions (Actions) and improve the skills needed to tackle the issues faced (Get the skills).
An employee engagement partner
“Our ESG lead is missing an employee engagement partner. Not just to help educate and raise awareness, but to ensure engagement leads to results, that is, we achieve our targets and meet our commitments.To do this we need to identify and work with the specific cohorts of our employee population that are driving sustainability impacts, such as carbon and resource footprints, as well as social impacts,” Sustainability champion, global software company
“From our internal discussions we know pretty much all our employees want to see environment, sustainability and social impact as part of our business’s values. Getting employees engaged shouldn't be a challenge, but it is all about doing that at the right time, with the right information, and supporting them through change. That is the key challenge,” Sustainability lead, marketing business
“Identifying our priorities is key for a small business. There are so many areas of sustainability that you can look at and pour energy and time into; it is critical for an SME to know where to focus and get the first wins,” Sustainability lead, marketing business
Service response
The Playbook provides a step-by-step guide to help organisations accelerate their engagement activities with real-life insights into the strategies that work.
Tools include the Sustainability engagement diagnostic (prototype) which helps identify priorities and gaps in engagement capabilities across the stages of planning, preparation, acting, embedding and measurement.
There is also a template Employee engagement survey, to find out what employees know and want, and to track progress over time, and an Employee engagement planner, with suggested actions, to help organisations prioritise and save time.
Insights include guides to Making the business case for engagement itself, as well as for sustainability, nature, and societal issues.
Roundtables will keep driving best practice and networking forward.
Practical tools that evolve
“We have to keep striving and up-to-date with what is happening from a legal and technical perspective,” Facilities manager, insurance.
“Our sustainability obligations are mounting. We need to know who is responsible for making them happen, what training we need to do, and what are the absolute priority issues and people,” vice president marketing, international software company
“We'd appreciate ideas and tools around engagement, such as an idea for an event, with practical guidance on what people can get on with on day one, as well as how to keep making progress,” ESG lead at financial information business
Service response
OckiPro’s Roundtables and Workshops offer opportunities to exchange experiences and learn from peers on current challenges and what works and what doesn’t to drive engagement.
OckiPro’s engagement cycle - the foundation of the Diagnostic and described in detail in the Playbook - encourages continuous improvement.
Future developments include benchmarking, training courses and co-creation events for members.
Why is OckiPro different?
OckiPro is on a mission to help organisations engage key stakeholder groups to bridge the gap between intention and action on embedding sustainability throughout their operations. It aims to help organisations meet their targets and legal obligations, and deliver value to society in the long term. Initially, the service has a focus on employee engagement. Future developments will centre on supplier, consumer and customer engagement and advocacy.
The people behind Ocki have decades of experience providing information, insights and events to help businesses improve the safety and sustainability of their products. They have been researching the need for Ocki and the sustainability challenges faced by organisations for two years – translating what they’ve learned into a service that is designed to address those challenges.
They have a detailed knowledge of sustainability and business, and are using that expertise to collaborate with organisations to accelerate engagement in sustainability. They are supporting members to improve business outcomes linked to sustainability, including greater efficiency, improved customer relationships, new business opportunities, and better staff retention and recruitment.
The name Ocki came about from early thinking on a community service to raise awareness among the public on broad sustainability issues – Operation Consumer Knowledge and Information. We decided to use Ocki as a brand name that sounds positive and playful, which we believe is essential in engaging people in sustainability – which can often seem daunting and overly technical.
To discuss your needs and membership tiers, email info@ockisustainability.com.
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