Frequently Asked Questions about Seminars
Seminars, short courses and modular qualifications for busy professionals
Here are answers to some frequently asked questions about CSEM Seminars.
Q. What do we offer?
A. CSEM runs individual seminars, workshops and short courses that cover all aspects of
environmental and sustainability management. These courses can also be combined within
our MA/MSc in Integrated Sustainable Management for Business .
Q. Who is the Programme designed for?
A. Our programme of seminars and short courses focus
on managing business to reduce their environmental impact in line with corporate
policies, competitive pressures and in a sustainable fashion.
Its aim is to train professionals with environmental and sustainability
responsibilities across all business functions as well as Environmental and Sustainability Managers
and Directors. Participants should then have the ability to lead their organisation
in all areas of environmental and sustainability policy and practice.
Q. What are the benefits of the Programme?
A. The benefits of the programme are:
- A Balanced Professional Training in Environmental Management
- The seminars, workshops and courses benefit from collaboration with many practitioners
and consultants peer-rated as national leaders in their fields, allows growing
awareness of best practice. The following benefits are designed to create
rounded professionals in this new discipline of Environmental and Sustainability Management.
- Flexibility of Course Design and Learning at Work
- Seminars and short courses can be taken at your own pace and in an order
which meets your own needs. This also provides the advantage of short study
periods away from work.
- Valuable Organisation Oriented-Assignments for MA/MSc, Diploma or Certificate
- Assignments, a major part of module assessment, are designed to add value
directly for the sponsoring company and student. They provide a constructive
introduction to important management issues.
- Strategic Capability
- The programme acknowledges the absolutely critical importance of environmental
and sustainability strategy to the future and growth of an organisation. The strategy components
of the Programme provide essential inputs for strategic business thinking.
These include carrying capacity, cyclical operations, industrial ecology
and sustainable development.
- Growing Expertise/Problem Solving
- Organisations may sponsor students, dissertations or project work if
they need to tackle problems in environmental or sustainability management. This can provide
an impressive on-site resource.
- Networking
- Participation by organisations at the forefront of development of Environmental and Sustainability
Management enables students to make valuable continuing contacts.
Q. What does Integrated Sustainable Management Mean?
A. The CSEM Environmental and Sustainability Management Programme does not merely provide for
single functions separately but has an integrated approach addressing several
requirements:
- The Management Context:
- Environmental and Sustainability Management is an important development of management education.
It should be integrated not only with the systems for managing health, safety
or quality, but more fundamentally with human resource, financial control and
performance management.
- The Strategic Context:
- Environmental and Sustainability Management has to be understood in a strategic context and
integrated into corporate business strategy; it cannot be left to specialists
or to an accountable Environmental and Sustainability Manager alone.
- The Regulatory and Social Context:
- A practical knowledge of present and forthcoming regulations and societal
demands form an integral part of environmental and sustainability management.
- The Effectiveness Context:
- Environmental and Sustainability Management is about managing resources effectively. There
is a growing number of Environmental and Sustainability Management approaches, tools and techniques
which are fundamental to an organisation's effectiveness.
- International Context:
- Environmental and Sustainability Management is a wide-spread global concern and attention to international
developments in this field is seen as vital to effective management.
Q. Are the Seminars Academic?
A. Yes and no. Yes - they are rigorous, demanding and designed to give up to date information
from the relevant areas of knowledge and an academic qualification. No - they are
not purely 'theoretical' but draw on the experience of many of the leading experts
in the field and include practical work situations.
Q. What topics do you cover?
A. We provide seminars, workshops and short courses on the following topics:
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