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Make Sustainability Personal–and 12 Other Tactics To Engage Employees

By Olivia Khalili on December 2, 2010 2 Comments Adam Werbach, brainstorming sessions, communication style, company culture, cross-functional effort, employee interests, employee surveys, incentives for engagement, influencer engagement, localize, long-term goals, Michael Moore, momentum of the initiative, personal, Strategy for Sustainability, sustainability, sustainability efforts, sustainability goals, sustainability initiatives, voluntary

Make Sustainability Personal–and 12 Other Tactics To Engage Employees

Sustainability does not engage employees unless it first and foremost solves problems they experience in their lives. You make sustainability personal and create the best conditions and incentives for employee engagement by making it voluntary, localizing it, listening, demonstrating the effect of the action, making it cross-functional, solicit and respond to employee ideas, give employees as a way to take immediate action, give rewards for successes, make it regular, and build culture around sustainability goals.

A New Green Philosophy with the Glass Half Full: Interview with Yalmaz Siddiqui of Office Depot

By Olivia Khalili on September 23, 2009 Comments Off on A New Green Philosophy with the Glass Half Full: Interview with Yalmaz Siddiqui of Office Depot Be Green, Buy Green, carbon emissions, CO2, Copenhagen, cost-saving, dark green, director of environmental affairs, efficiency programs, energy, energy management systems, environmental community, environmental impact, environmental improvement, environmental performance improvement, environmental policy, environmental responsibility, environmental standards.supply chain, Environmental Strategy, fleet conversion, fleet transitions, fuel, green products, light green, lighting retrofits, Office Depot, recognition programs, Sell Green. waste, store retrofits, Yalmaz Siddiqui

Yalmaz Siddiqui, Office Depot’s Director of Environmental Strategy, shares his glass-half-full view of environmental policy, calls for a new definition of “green” and talks about the legacy he’d like to leave. Siddiqui joined Office Depot in 2006. He’s since developed programs that improve the environmental standards of Office Depot’s supply chain, its internal operations and the consumer market.