Sustainable Employee Engagement Solutions

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1 Sustainable Employee Engagement Solutions

2 Sustainability Focused Employee Engagement SMS Plc offers the full range of environmental services to help organisations promote their own green agenda and engage with staff to encourage them to adopt more sustainable behaviours. The value and benefits of embracing environmental and sustainability employee engagement are great, nevertheless encouraging your workforce to think and behave differently can be a very big challenge. Why Employee Engagement? The business case for corporate sustainability has never been clearer and more widely accepted. To successfully embed sustainable thinking into any organisation you must understand the role that everyone plays and develop a strategy to engage with staff and encourage them to adopt new behaviours. Employee engagement is often overlooked when considering sustainability, but if utilised correctly it s possible to achieve fantastic results quickly and for far less capital expense in comparison to some alternatives. How Does SMS create meaningful engagement? SMS don t offer off the shelf engagement products instead our experienced Consultants work closely with our clients to develop bespoke campaigns and projects that deliver maximum value. The process cycle below highlights areas of typical activity during the development of an employee engagement program:

3 Sustainability Focused Employee Engagement SMS deliver all aspects of planning, delivery and on-going analysis of your program based on the issues you want to address, e.g. legal compliance; energy usage; travel; waste & resource management; or wider community engagement. SMS also has the ability to deliver meaningful campaign collateral and activities that include: Eye catching awareness posters and prompts Wide range of internal and external communications Interactive guides and information packs Engaging reporting mechanisms Campaign competitions Large scale interactive live events Business Area Environment & Sustainability HR Marketing & Business Development Finance Benefits Easier to reach saving targets with staff engaged and aware of their impact and role Staff ideally placed to identify improvements (often cheap and quick) for local inefficiencies and problems Staff feel prouder and more inclined to work for companies who promote and embrace sustainability Staff feel more positive leading to increased morale, loyalty and productivity Added assurances to both customers and stakeholders that sustainability is being addressed Provides PR opportunities if staff get involved in local environment and community schemes Considerable cost savings can be achieved in quick period from saving energy, resources, travel etc. Relatively low cost projects (minimal cap-ex) with often very high ROI

4 Client Case Study Santander UK Santander is one of the UK's leading financial services companies. SMS Plc was appointed by Santander in 2011 to develop and manage their Go Green employee engagement campaign. The objective of the programme was to raise awareness of environmental issues and encourage staff to adopt more sustainable behaviours at work. Our Story So Far SMS Consultants created dedicated sustainability campaigns such as Reduce your Carbon Footprint, which encouraged staff to save energy, recycle more and print less. Whilst the Sustainable Santander campaign focused on promoting best practice projects happening across the organisation to raise awareness of the bank s high level of commitment to the environment. SMS is responsible for the day-to-day development and management of all Go Green communications, activities, competitions, live events, and the Green Club. The Green Club network is comprised of bank staff who volunteer their time to support Go Green campaigns to help make Santander a greener and better place to work. Since 2011 the Green Club has grown from 100 people to over 1,500 members from around Santander s offices, banking centres and branches. SMS developed bespoke projects including the Kill-A-Watt energy challenge that saw every Santander branch in the UK compete against each other to reduce their energy usage. The branches with highest percentage reduction over a 4 week period were crowned the region s Energy Champion and won 250 to donate to a charity of their choice. The 18 month project was a fantastic success with every region achieving a 10% target reduction. Overall the branch network achieved a 15% average energy reduction with zero capital investment.

5 For more information on how SMS Plc can help your organisation achieve its sustainability goals please contact Paul Jarvis