Case Study

In addition to promoting the importance of our company values to colleagues on a daily basis, as a company we get together every three months away from the office to revisit our values. At our session in December 2007 we decided to change the format slightly to support Keycare’s improving green credentials.  We asked Adam Woodhall of PeopleProfitPlanet to give a presentation on climate change and why being green is important, not just to the environment but also to how Keycare as a business can contribute to protecting the environment and how this can have a positive impact on business performance.  This is because many of our values relate directly or indirectly to the core messages of PeopleProfitPlanet.

Adam gave an eye opening presentation on climate change and the effects this is having on the planet, such as the erratic weather we are experiencing and the increasing natural disasters that are occurring. With this in mind it is our own duty to take environmental action by becoming green by recycling, reducing and reusing. 

In this motivational workshop we understood that there are many simple actions we can take in the office to ‘do our bit’ for the environment.  The result of this interactive workshop was immediately noticeable back in the office.  Staff not only became more aware of being green, but also took more responsibility for cost saving generally.  For example we saw an immediate 64% reduction in paper usage.  Beyond the office, Keycare staff travelled 8,289 fewer miles by company car in one year, a truly impressive 37% cut.  Through mileage alone, we realised a saving of £3,315 and cut our CO2 emissions by 4.1 tonnes.

PeopleProfitPlanet sent us two emails after the workshop to remind us of our personal eco-commitments.  Two months after the original workshop, Adam worked with our Green Team to help them focus on what would be the best direction for Keycare in the short, medium and long term. 

The final part of this initial programme was a ‘Temperature Check’ where we looked at what we’d achieved over the previous three months.  One very interesting finding was that when Adam asked the team where we had been on a scale of 1 to 10 before the initial workshop, the consensus was an honest, but low “Three”.  He then asked where we were currently, and everybody agreed “Five”, and finally where we wanted to be in 1 year, and the consensus was an aspirational “Eight”. 

This clearly demonstrates to me that PeopleProfitPlanet has the ability to motivate and inspire my staff to green themselves and desire further change.

The work that we have done with PeopleProfitPlanet has also served as one of the foundations for establishing our own Corporate Social Responsibility policy which is being progressed by our own CSR team and which has been enthusiastically received by our customers, suppliers and staff.

I am very happy to recommend PeopleProfitPlanet to any organisation."

David Ross, Managing Director, Keycare Ltd

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