Making Sustainability Stick: The Blueprint for Successful Implementation

8. Engaging Employees Around Sustainability

Employees are most effective at their job when they can engage their head, their heart, and their hands. This chapter is designed to help you understand the benefits of a fully engaged workforce, and why sustainability is one of the best ways to achieve that, and then to describe the various intricacies required for sustainability to be fully embedded in your workforce.

Engaged employees are more productive and enthusiastic and will carry the mission and goals of your company forward. The most productive employees have high job satisfaction and find purpose at work outside of financial gain. I emphasize this because although there are a number of technical aspects of sustainability implementation, it ...