Jump-start or advance your Sustainability, Climate Literacy & Circular Economy skill set
Start now as an in-house team or individual learner with our flexible and online training programs.
The Swivel Skills platform is based around topic specific courses dedicated to the Circular Economy, Climate Literacy Sustainability skills building.
Sustainability Skills
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Gain the knowledge and tools that you need to implement sustainability into your work through the Swivel Skills training programs. 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.
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.
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Chapter 1: Introduction to Sustainability
Chapter 2: Sustainability Decision Making
Chapter 3: Sustainability Key Concepts & Terms
Chapter 4: Applying Sustainability to Business
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By the end of the Sustainability program, you should 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 work.
Through 4 distinct, dedicated learning experiences, this course dives into ensuring your foundational understanding of what sustainability is and what it is not.
Content includes:
The four different dimensions of sustainability
Planetary boundaries
Externalities of pollution
Environmental, Social, Governance: ESG
Emerging global sustainability regulations
Green myths and greenwashing, and so much more
Climate Literacy
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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. In this Climate Literacy program, you will level up your understanding of climate change and action by diving into the key terms and concepts. 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, and 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 crisis on its way to becoming climate positive.
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Chapter 1: Introduction to Climate Literacy
Chapter 2: Climate Impact Measurement
Chapter 3: Climate Action
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By the end of this Climate Literacy course, you should:
Know what climate change is and the risks associated with inaction
Understand how the global community is working to address climate change and your role within this
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
Build knowledge to expand your climate literacy by immersing yourself in topics like climate risks and opportunities, along with climate leadership, in turn honing skills that you can integrate right away into your climate strategy
Circular Economy
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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 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.
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Chapter 1: Introduction to the Circular Economy
Chapter 2: Circular Economy Key Concepts & Terms
Chapter 3: Circular Business Approaches
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The circular economy course rounds out the core learning experience by detailing the global circular economy movement to eliminate waste, make things last longer and regenerate nature by design.
This content clearly demonstrates:
What the circular economy is and how it applies to businesses
Ways to implement circularization into business strategies
Circular design strategies
The benefits, opportunities and issues of transitioning to a circular economy, and much more
Sustainability Training for Everyone
Take the Circular Economy, Sustainability Skills and Climate Literacy core courses individually, as a 3-part package, or the Circular Economy Leadership Journey, which includes all 3 core courses plus an 4 additional Action Learning Modules.
Our platform is designed for at-scale training from 1-10,000 people, easily accommodating large groups, connecting to your in-house training system or providing a unique branded portal. Reach out for a call to find out about group rates and bulk access benefits.
Included in all courses:
12 months of access
An engaging and interactive experience with scientifically-validated content and supplementary resources to continue your learning journey
Quizzes and assessments to make sure you’re on the right path
Downloadable worksheets and templates
Certificate of completion
Action Learning Modules
Action Learning Modules provide industry-relevant deep-dives into a specific content area, with real-world case studies, examples, action prompts and downloadable worksheets to apply the content right away in your business context.
For Enterprise clients, Action Learning Modules can be integrated in any custom-built package and used to stack together industry-based learning journeys. They are also available for custom development.
“Green skills are the building blocks of the green transition and the key to unlocking the human capital that will power it… We have to upskill workers who currently lack those skills. And we need to ensure green skills are hardwired into the skillset of future generations.”
Program Features
Duration & Access
All three Sustainability, Climate Literacy and Circular Economy Programs can be completed in 4-10 hours.
All programs have a 12-month access, with the option to pay for extensions if required.
Access with ease from desktop, mobile or tablet.
Credentials
All Swivel Skills programs include a certificate of completion.
For corporate packages, we can customize the badges and certifications. Just reach out to find out more.
Enterprise clients have the option of a private dashboard to track progress and completion.
Flexible Learning
Programs are optimized for mobile viewing and provide a combination of written, verbal and graphic content.
Start and stop anytime, with an engaging short and easy to digest videos, written content and interactive quizzes to keep you moving forward.
“The largest perceived challenges to companies are a lack of organizational skills and processes to understand all of the implications of the Green Deal, quantify the costs of Green Deal levies, benefit from available incentives, and maximize the opportunities arising from the transition to more sustainable economies.”