EKOS Global Benchmarking Study

The Leading Approaches and Best Practices for

Engaging Employees in Sustainability

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EKOS is excited to release our 2010 global benchmarking report,
"Igniting the Core: Employee Engagement & Sustainability." Based on a comprehensive review of professional literature and in-depth interviews with pioneering executives from many of the world's leading companies, "Igniting the Core" is designed to guide managers in accelerating organization-wide employee engagement as the platform for taking environmental and social sustainability to the next level of integration, impact, and scale.

The 92-page report goes far beyond "Green Teams," summarizing seven key approaches to engaging the contribution and creativity of employees in sustainability-driven business improvement and innovation, with specific illustrations from leaders including P&G, 3M, BT, Interface, Microsoft, Timberland, Eileen Fisher, Walmart, and SAP. The report highlights the strategic importance of engaging employees in sustainability and provides a snapshot summary of on-the-ground practices from more than 60 companies. Ignite the passion of your employees - in ways that will build an enduring foundation for world-class performance - as they create value through sustainability innovations and climate solutions!

Find Out How The Global Leaders Are:

  • Integrating Sustainability implementation & innovation into everyone's daily work
  • Promoting Sustainability-driven "intrapreneurship"
  • Accelerating product innovation through employee engagement in sustainability
  • Evolving from simple "Green Teams" to sophisticated Sustainability Networks
  • Capitalizing on and integrating with both social media and knowledge management systems
  • Engaging employees with strategically aligned skills-based community service and philanthropy to achieve step-leap breakthroughs for both companies and communities

From a strategic perspective, fully engaging the energy and creative contributions of all employees in sustainable business innovation is turning out to be one of the greatest leverage points for increasing financial performance and organizational effectiveness. The direct business benefits of straightforward employee engagement are well known. The synergistic combination of sustainability and employee engagement provides a powerful platform for building competitive advantage, adapting to emerging business conditions, and creating a continuous stream of differentiated value-added products and services that fit the needs of global customers.

And at the highest level, employee engagement integrated with sustainability is catalyzing and enabling the contribution of businesses in solving our most challenging societal problems.

Igniting the Core, 2010

"Today, no leader can afford to be indifferent to the challenge of engaging employees in the work of creating the future. Engagement may have been optional in the past, but it's pretty much the whole game today... Engagement is essential to the competitiveness of every company - and we need to be doing a whole lot better than we are. "
Gary Hamel


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*The report is $395 for an individual-use electronic copy. If you prefer to freely distribute the report more widely within your company, you can purchase a company license allowing unlimited distribution internally for $995.