CSR: Creating Positive Results
Original Air Date: Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012 View this webinar online now! |
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Taking Responsibility
Groups are increasingly jumping on the corporate social responsibility bandwagon
By KATIE MORELL
Take yourself back about 10 years and imagine sitting in an event-planning meeting where someone brings up the term ‘corporate social responsibility.’ Chances are, that person would have been met with a boardroom full of blank stares. Instead, team building was all the rage—the more zip lines and ropes courses the better. But as the economy went south and public scrutiny around lavish corporate meetings intensified, companies looked for activity alternatives.
It’s not that socially responsible activities weren’t being done in concert with meetings more than a decade ago. They were—the buzz-phrase just hadn’t been invented yet. Today, corporations and associations are touting their community activities and often incorporating them as mandatory components in a meeting’s agenda.
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CSR: Creating Positive Results
Speaker: Paul Salinger
Wed., Jan. 25, 2012
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Regardless of how one views the scientific or political debates around climate change, there is no doubt that we are living in a world of increasing population and dwindling resources. As meeting and event planners, do we have a responsibility to integrate triple bottom line thinking and acting into our event process?
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
• Understand the lifecycle of sustainable event planning
• Be able to begin to articulate a business case for running events more sustainably
• Determine how to better engage stakeholders within the event supply chain to get better results
• Understand simple steps to get started on the path to a CSR plan and simple steps to greener meetings and events
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Contingency Planning: Preparation Pays
Speaker: Joan Eisentodt
Wed., Feb. 29, 2012
1:00 pm EST |
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Years after terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, and hurricanes Katrina and Rita and mere months since unprecedented droughts, hurricanes and flooding in the U.S. and a deadly outbreak of e-Coli in Europe, we still do little to protect meeting participants and property. The potential for weather interruptions, brown- and black-outs, food poisoning—even death—are real. Large or small—paper cuts or disasters—we are woefully unprepared for contingencies.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
• Think and act more critically about meeting and event contingency planning
• Determine how to (better) partner to provide necessary resources to anticipate and manage contingencies
• Prioritize actions to be taken immediately to protect people, places and things
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Paul Salinger
V.P. of Marketing, Oracle |
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| CSR Checklists! |
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1. Corporate Social Responsibility
2. Green Meetings
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CSR: Creating Positive Results
Available Online Now!
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| Take 5! |
I'd like to propose my organization start some CSR practices at our events. How should I begin?
This is a really common question I get. The basic answer is just start. Start doing something. It could be very simple things like putting in a recycling program or eliminating bottled water or reducing printing on paper or printing of signage. This would at least be doing something.
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