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• Overview of relevant sustainability tools: double materiality analysis, stakeholder engagement, ecosystem analysis.
• Introduction to Life Cycle Assessments and Cradle-to-Cradle Principles.
• Side Note: Understanding the circular economy and applying it throughout the value chain.
• Side Note: Understanding the circular economy and applying it throughout the value chain.

Self-Study Module: Identifying Stakeholders as Allies in Sustainability Efforts.

• Structure and apply ESG instruments.
• Effectively plan and implement stakeholder involvement.
• Carry out a double materiality analysis (impact & financial materiality).
• Key Topics in the Sustainability Strategy.
• Side Note: Profit-Orientation vs. Impact — New Ways of Thinking in Management.
• Side Note: Innovation, Transformation, and Resilience.

Self-Study Module:Analyze ESG tools along your own roadmap and apply them to your own company.

• Integrate ESG into existing management systems (e.g., ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 45001, EMAS).
• Anchoring sustainability in the organization in the long term through process management.
• ESG controlling: Understanding key figures, indicators and data basis.
• Side Note: Establishing Links Between the Sustainability Strategy and Reporting.
• Side Note: Value Chains and Management Systems.

Self-Study Module: Reflection on One’s Own Role as an ESG Manager in the Company.

• Define and strengthen your own role and mandate in sustainability management.
• Self-Coaching: Staying Motivated—Even When the Going Gets Tough.
• Positive Psychology & Systemic Thinking in the ESG Context.
• Lead, motivate and support ESG teams.
• Tools for team moderation and co-creative work.
• Dealing with Resistance: The Basics of Change Management.

Self-Study Module: Building an ESG Network and Preparing Credible Sustainability Communications.

• Fostering collaboration and partnerships for sustainable impact.
• Building Trust Through Credible Sustainability Communication
• Differences between voluntary and mandatory reporting (e.g., CSRD/ESRS, VS, DNK, GRI, ISSB/IFRS S2).
• Preparing for the final presentation.

Examination requirements:

The prerequisite is the completion of all training modules as well as the completion of the self-study units. Four weeks before the examination date, a presentation on a current or upcoming project in your own organization on the topic of "ESG" is submitted to the Haufe Akademie .

Duration of the examination:

Depending on the number of participants, the final module is scheduled to last one or two days. Approximately 60 minutes per participant are allocated for each individual final presentation, peer feedback, and feedback from the trainers.

Examination content:

Presentation of a current or upcoming project from your own organization.

Focus of the presentation:

• Initial situation & project objective.
• Reflection on your own role in the project.
• Reflection on the approach and selection of methods, tools, etc.
• Presentation of the learning process within the project.

Examination procedure:

every participant presents the submitted project in a plenary presentation. This is followed by a brief discussion with the other participants and the experts. You will answer the questions of the other participants and can ask your own questions in order to gain valuable input for the successful implementation of your project.