The IEMA Environmental Sustainability Skills for the Managers course is designed specifically to equip managers like you with the essential knowledge and skills to integrate environmental sustainability into your day-to-day operations. As sustainability becomes a driving force in corporate success, understanding how to manage environmental risks and opportunities is essential.
IEMA stands for the Institute of Environmental Management & Assessment. It is a global membership organization based in the United Kingdom (UK) that focuses on empowering professionals to transform the world into a more sustainable place.
This course will empower you to not only comply with environmental regulations but also to strategically lead sustainable change in your organization, regardless of industry or sector. By becoming an IEMA-certified professional, you’ll be recognized for your ability to align sustainability with business goals, driving long-term growth and corporate responsibility.
Whether you’re in charge of a team, department or large-scale projects, this course will provide you with a comprehensive toolkit for embedding sustainability into your management practices. You’ll gain an understanding of how to optimize resources, reduce environmental impacts, and create a sustainable future for your organization. The insights you will gain from this course will allow you to be an effective driver of environmental change, ensuring your company remains competitive, compliant, and environmentally responsible in today’s fast-evolving business landscape.
By enrolling in this course with Eduskills Training, you won’t just learn theoretical concepts — you’ll gain practical, actionable insights that you can apply immediately in your role. The course includes engaging activities and real-life case studies, ensuring that you leave with the confidence to lead sustainability projects, improve resource efficiency, and tackle environmental challenges head-on. You’ll understand how to align your sustainability goals with broader business objectives, driving both environmental and economic benefits for your organization.
By the end of this course, you will be equipped to make informed, strategic decisions that contribute to the success of your company. Whether it’s reducing waste, optimizing energy use, or ensuring compliance with evolving regulations, this course will help you turn sustainability challenges into opportunities that benefit both the environment and your business. You’ll also build the skills to inspire and lead your team in sustainable practices, fostering a culture of environmental responsibility throughout your organization.
The Environmental Sustainability Skills for the Managers course will require Learners to evaluate a wide range of environmental risks, factors, environmental policy, barriers, their effects and implement policies.
This qualification comes with structured learner workbooks, a trainer manual and an online assessment produced by IEMA. This course is an IEMA Certified course and certificates are provided by IEMA to learners who have successfully completed the course.
Unit Details: This concentrated two-day course provides learners with a practical introduction to environmental sustainability, ensuring they are equipped with the knowledge, understanding and motivation to make a positive difference within their organization.
Day 1:
Unit No. | Unit Name | Unit Description |
1 | Risks and Opportunities from Environmental Sustainability | The first part of this section will cover some key mega- trends and drivers for sustainability and how these distil into key environmental risks for organizations |
2 | Compliance obligations and business drivers for change | The second section will cover some key statutory and other compliance requirements like key environmental regulators, guidelines and agreements |
3 | Main potential impacts on environment and sustainability | The aim of this section will be to give a basic understanding of the key environmental sustainability impacts |
4 | How to improve environmental performance | This section focuses on implementing the information that the learner has gained from the day into the setting of their own organization |
Day 2:
Unit No. | Unit Name | Unit Description |
1 | Evaluate drivers for change and barriers | This section will evaluate the reasons for inertia/reasons for progress – in organizations making transformational change |
2 | Apply knowledge and understanding to baseline data to monitor and improve performance | Assessing environmental performance including commonly encountered environmental metrics; carbon footprinting, waste data, energy data and others |
3 | Apply knowledge of environmental sustainability across the value chain | This section focuses on how organizations can implement sustainability across different facets of their organization, through their supply chain and other linked stakeholders |
4 | Demonstrate the importance of implementing resource efficiency | This section focuses on minimising the use of resource including User Flows, Waste Hierarchy, Energy & Water Hierarchy, Circular Economy Principles |
5 | Demonstrate how employees can improve environmental performance | This section focuses on driving improvements in sustainability through influencing people within an organization |
This course is taught by IEMA-approved trainers and you will be assessed via online multiple-choice exam at the end of the day’s learning.
Here is how the Environmental Sustainability Skills for the Managers course is assessed for completion and validation:
2 Day
9 Modules
Online
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IEMA stands for the Institute of Environmental Management & Assessment. It is a global membership organization based in the United Kingdom (UK) that focuses on empowering professionals to transform the world into a more sustainable place.
The IEMA Environmental Sustainability Skills for the Managers course is designed to help you develop a comprehensive understanding of environmental sustainability in a managerial context. At Eduskills Training, we will equip you with the skills and knowledge necessary to lead your team or organization toward environmental sustainable practices, ensuring compliance with relevant regulations and driving measurable sustainability improvements.
The IEMA Environmental Sustainability Skills for the Managers course is perfect for managers and leaders who want to integrate sustainable practices into their organization and lead environmental initiatives. If you’re looking to improve your team’s sustainability efforts, ensure compliance, and drive measurable environmental impact, this course is for you.
The course is delivered in 2 day (14 guided learning hours) of interactive and engaging learning, including practical activities.
Upon completion, you will receive an official IEMA certificate for Environmental Sustainability Skills for Managers, recognized globally as proof of your knowledge and ability to lead sustainability initiatives within your organization.
After completing the course from Eduskills Training, you will be able to lead your organization’s sustainability initiatives by driving change, improving resource efficiency and ensuring compliance with environmental regulations. You’ll gain practical tools to influence decision-making, reduce energy consumption, and create measurable sustainability impacts within your organization.
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