Discover the Swivel Skills Core Sustainability Training Program
Activate your personal or company-wide capacity to address climate change and adapt to the circular economy.
Explore the 3-Part Learning Content
The Core Sustainability Program is based around a 3-part core learning experience that covers sustainability skills, climate literacy and the circular economy.
Encompassing 10 chapters and 34 modules, you can explore an overview of the program content below.
SUSTAINABILITY SKILLS
Gain the knowledge and tools that you need to implement sustainability into your workplace through the Sustainability Skills course.
By exploring a broad spectrum foundation of what sustainability is and how it applies to business decision-making, you will increase your core understanding of the contemporary approaches to sustainability, the science backing it up and the many reasons why it's now a critical part of society and business decision making.
It has been designed to increase your comprehension around common terms and concepts such as planetary boundaries, externalities, ecosystem services, and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, as well as equip you with the language and tools around environmental and social impact assessment.
You will learn to think critically about what sustainability is and how to integrate it into your business decisions, sift through green myths, understand how to prevent greenwashing and identify ways to validate sustainability claims and actions.
By the end of the Sustainability course, you will be able to confidently identify critical impact areas, understand how to measure and assess those impacts, and be ready to start taking tangible actions to activate sustainability within your organization.
Summary: In this course, there are 4 chapters made up of 15 modules and 35 quiz questions. Est: 2-3 hours to complete.
Sustainability Skills Course Chapter Breakdown
Chapter 1 —
Introduction to Sustainability
Increase your understanding of what contemporary sustainability is, why it's so critical to modern society, and how it impacts you in your workplace through this first chapter of the Sustainability training program. Here you'll examine the different dimensions of sustainability, begin recognizing impact areas, consider planetary boundaries and review sustainability actions through a global lens to expand your perspective and inform your activation plan.
Chapter 2 —
Sustainability Decision Making
Gain a deeper understanding of key terms and concepts related to environmental and business sustainability. The content will support your ability to apply sustainability in any professional context, ensure you are up-to-speed with the latest language and increase your ability to implement science-based sustainability, which also ensures that you don't perpetuate myths and superficial aspects discussed in the previous chapter.
Chapter 3 —
Sustainability Key Terms & Concepts
Tie all of your new knowledge from the sustainability training program together by taking the first steps in applying what you have learned. In this chapter, you will be practicing identifying the impact areas in your workplace, implementing useful assessment techniques that provide the data you need to improve, and creating change plans that make sustainability unboring and practical for everyone at your workplace.
Chapter 4 —
Applying Sustainability to Business
This chapter is designed to support your confidence in navigating the changing business and regulatory landscape. First, you will explore the framing of what sustainability is in relation to business and then identify the key drivers and stakeholders. You will be able to identify key social and environmental impact areas, increase your capacity to activate organizational change and maintain compliance while avoiding green myths and greenwashing.
“It was delightful to finally understand some of the terms used in sustainability that I usually felt lost about. I would recommend this because it really explains the technical terms that everyone seems to know yet cannot really explain. It explains the concept of sustainability in such a way that you do not need to have even heard about it before to understand what is being taught.”
– Praise Chioma Uma, Product Developer (Real Estate)
CLIMATE LITERACY
In this Climate Literacy course, you will level up your understanding of climate change and action by diving into the key terms and concepts.
Climate literacy is critical for companies of all sizes and within all industries, as the growing global demand for significant action is placing pressure on pubic and private organizations to take responsibility for their direct and indirect carbon contributions.
You will also attain the necessary tools for developing substantial actions within your organization, such as:
Carbon footprinting
GHG emissions
Impact measurement
The Greenhouse Gas Protocol
Scope 3 emissions
Target setting
Stand out as a climate leader after you've learned to distinguish what's most impactful for organizational and corporate climate strategy, and help ensure that your organization is taking accountability for its contribution to the climate crises on its way to becoming climate positive.
By the end of this Climate Literacy course, you will have a comprehensive understanding of what climate change is, the risks associated with inaction, how the global community is working to address climate change, and your role within this.
You will also be able to recognize the impacts of climate change on the Earth & society, identify the contribution of different industries to climate change, and begin formulating actions that your company can take now.
Summary: In this course, there are 3 chapters made up of 10 modules and 25 quiz questions. Est: 1.5-3 hours to complete.
Climate Literacy Course Chapter Breakdown
Chapter 1 —
Introduction to Climate Literacy
This chapter is all about creating a common climate understanding by addressing the basics with the most up-to-date, science-based information. This is critical for you and your team, as sharing common literacy skills and knowledge will be necessary in creating impactful climate strategy. Dive into the science of greenhouse gases, critically consider the processes that contribute to climate impacts, review the risks, opportunities, and impacts of climate action (and inaction), firm up your knowledge of key terms and concepts, and finally, counterbalance this by engaging with climate hope.
Chapter 2 —
Climate Impact Measurement
Complete the Climate Literacy training program by gaining the knowledge, skills, and confidence you need to position yourself as a leader in climate action. In this chapter, you will examine what business and climate leadership looks like, review key actions, and consider a climate action plan. You will also learn about key reporting frameworks and net zero standards, as well as receive a business actions checklist that helps you formulate a new climate strategy (or check your existing one) right away.
Chapter 3 —
Climate Action
Climate impact measurement is critical to any corporate climate strategy; as such, this chapter is wholly dedicated to equipping you with the necessary foundational skills for understanding how to measure climate impacts and create mitigation strategies. You'll explore a full suite of available resources for GHG accounting, carbon assessments, and product footprints. Regardless of where you are on your climate journey, this chapter will prepare you to move to the next level by growing your climate toolbox.
CIRCULAR ECONOMY
Embracing the shift to sustainability means embracing the circular economy, a movement away from a take, make, waste model of production and business, to one that is waste-free and regenerative.
As such, here you'll immerse yourself in understanding the shift to the Circular Economy, how it is affecting businesses, and what opportunities, issues and approaches for circular redesign and business development are available.
You will also walk through the key science that underpins the circular economy, get up to speed with critical circular concepts, and review circular business models that can help inform your own circular redesign strategy.
There are practical activities to complete, including a circular SWOT and redesign process to explore which circular business models fit your business case.
Summary: In this course, there are 3 chapters made up of 9 modules and 24 quiz questions. Est: 1.5-3 hours to complete.
Circular Economy Course Chapter Breakdown
Chapter 1 —
Intro to the Circular Economy
This chapter will strengthen your foundational knowledge and provide a solid support to build your comprehensive understanding of why the current linear economy endangers sustainability, what the circular economy is all about, and how both the opportunities and challenges alike may impact your business.
Chapter 2 —
From Linear to Circular
Gain the applicable skills needed to redesign businesses and products to fit within a circular model. This covers an overview of the main circular economy business models and design strategies; it then explores a redesign process and circular SWOT analysis. In completing these, you will be well-equipped to employ circularization actions at your workplace.
Chapter 3 —
Benefits & Opportunities
Walk through the key science that underpins the circular economy, as you examine concepts such as nutrient flows, metabolisms and inputs and outputs. With eliminating waste being one of the core goals of the circular economy, here you will be introduced to the specifics of what this means and how to achieve it. Round out the chapter by learning the critical concepts and terms such as product stewardship, industrial ecology and reverse logistics in order to grow your full-spectrum comprehension of what the circular economy means today.
AT YOUR OWN PACE
This program starts as soon as you sign up. You will receive access starting from the day you sign up for 12 months from that date.
There is an option to extend your access for a reduced rate if you need more time to complete the program and gain your certificate of completion.
DURATION
There are 10 chapters in total, and we recommend taking 45-120 minutes per chapter to reflect and read, respond to the prompts, answer the quiz questions and consider how the content applies to your role and business area.
PROGRAM FEE
To get started on the full 3 courses in the Core Sustainability Training program, we offer direct sign-up for individuals.
If you enroll with a team, we offer at-scale pricing through our enterprise package. Contact us to find out more.
Learning Format
Self-paced online learning
Engaging interactive graphics
Voiceovers and closed captions
80+ Interactive quizzes
Program Features
Scientifically validated resource links for further research
Certificate of Completion upon successful completion of the full 3 part program
12 months of access
Interconnected Learning Platform
The Swivel Skills Learning Platform offers an extensive learning library designed for integrating sustainability into business decision-making.
The Core Sustainability Training Program is the foundational content that we recommend everyone take, and you can build on your capacity through our dedicated action learning modules that are available inside the platform.
Enterprise packages can include the full library as open-access or choose curated learning programs. Specific capacity-building custom training can be built based on company and department needs.
Designed with Teams in Mind
The Swivel Skills sustainability training platform offers high-level foundational knowledge and capacity building for all team members. By training everyone in your team, you are ensuring alignment, literacy, competency and capacity.
Science-based Sustainability
Swivel Skills delivers comprehensive science-based sustainability training, which includes understanding impacts, using the right tools to measure and reduce impacts, reporting, and adapting as new technologies and corporate actions become available.
Scalable, Verifiable, Customizable
There is no one-size-fits-all sustainability solution. The Swivel Skills system is a scalable learning system that can be customized to your in-house learning needs. Our library of curated content is reliable and based on best practices.
“At its essence, sustainability means ensuring prosperity and environmental protection without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs. A sustainable world is one where people can escape poverty and enjoy decent work without harming the earth’s essential ecosystems and resources; where people can stay healthy and get the food and water they need; where everyone can access clean energy that doesn’t contribute to climate change; where women and girls are afforded equal rights and equal opportunities.”