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How can you use critical thinking to identify messaging issues around sustainability for your organization?

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Sustainability is a buzzword that many organizations use to communicate their social and environmental responsibility. But how can you make sure that your sustainability messages are clear, consistent, and credible? How can you avoid greenwashing, backlash, or confusion among your stakeholders? In this article, you will learn how to use critical thinking to identify and address potential messaging issues around sustainability for your organization.

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Puneet Singh Singhal

Co-founder Billion Strong | Empowering Young Innovators with Disabilities | Curator, "Green Disability" | Exploring…
Serena Syed Hussain

Director of Think Tank, Systems Thinker, Rep Management, Chartered PR/Comms, Strategic Consulting

1 Define your sustainability goals

The first step to craft effective sustainability messages is to define your sustainability goals and align them with your organization's vision, mission, and values. What are the specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound (SMART) objectives that you want to achieve in terms of environmental, social, and economic impact? How do they support your overall organizational strategy and purpose? How do they benefit your stakeholders, such as customers, employees, investors, suppliers, and communities? By clarifying your sustainability goals, you can create a solid foundation for your messages and avoid vague or unrealistic claims.

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Puneet Singh Singhal

Co-founder Billion Strong | Empowering Young Innovators with Disabilities | Curator, "Green Disability" | Exploring Conscious AI for Social Change | Advaita Vedanta | SDGs 10 & 17 |
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Step-by-Step Guide to Defining Sustainability Goals Alignment with Mission and Values: The first step is to make sure that your sustainability objectives align with your organization's broader mission, vision, and values. Stakeholder Analysis: Identify and engage key stakeholders including customers, employees, suppliers, and communities to understand their concerns and expectations regarding sustainability. Environmental, Social, and Economic Impact: Break down your sustainability goals into these three main categories for a comprehensive approach. SMART Objectives: Frame your sustainability goals using the SMART criteria (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, Time-bound) to ensure they are actionable and accountable.

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Define the Problem: Clearly define the problem or challenge related to sustainability messaging. For example, it could be a lack of clarity in your messaging, inconsistency in your sustainability goals and actions, or a gap in addressing stakeholder concerns.

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2 Analyze your audience

The next step is to analyze your audience and understand their needs, expectations, and preferences. Who are the key stakeholders that you want to reach with your sustainability messages? What are their attitudes, values, and beliefs about sustainability? How do they perceive your organization and its sustainability efforts? How do they prefer to receive information and feedback? By analyzing your audience, you can tailor your messages to their interests, motivations, and concerns, and avoid irrelevant or insensitive content.

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Serena Syed Hussain

Director of Think Tank, Systems Thinker, Rep Management, Chartered PR/Comms, Strategic Consulting
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There are multiple ways you can begin to map your stakeholders. You can use fancy software, bring in consultants, or manually plot a spreadsheet with data you feel is most relevant. What is most relevant to you? Their organisation, sector, role, specialism? What are they saying externally on social media? What are their pain points? Software like Pulsar will even show you user behaviour (online). You decide what data you're after and begin to build a picture. This will help you to anticipate the evaluation too - the next step. If you're aligned to this piece of work then you will find you'll begin to look for these things instinctively without relying on software, which will only make your evaluation much more meaningful.

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3 Evaluate your sources

The third step is to evaluate your sources and ensure that your sustainability messages are based on credible, accurate, and transparent data and evidence. Where do you get your information and facts about your sustainability performance and impact? How do you measure, monitor, and report your sustainability outcomes and indicators? How do you verify, validate, and audit your sustainability data and claims? How do you disclose your sustainability methods, standards, and limitations? By evaluating your sources, you can strengthen your messages with reliable, consistent, and verifiable information, and avoid misleading or false statements.

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Rahul Mandal

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Gather Information: Collect all relevant information, including your current sustainability messaging, reports, feedback from stakeholders, and industry best practices. Consider both internal and external perspectives.

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4 Compare your competitors

The fourth step is to compare your competitors and identify your sustainability strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT). How do your sustainability goals, performance, and impact compare to those of your direct and indirect competitors? What are the best practices and benchmarks in your industry and sector? What are the gaps and challenges that you need to address or overcome? What are the trends and innovations that you need to follow or adopt? By comparing your competitors, you can position your messages with differentiation, value proposition, and competitive advantage, and avoid imitation or complacency.

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5 Test your messages

The final step is to test your messages and solicit feedback from your audience and other stakeholders. How do you communicate your sustainability messages through different channels, formats, and media? How do you engage your audience and encourage dialogue and action? How do you monitor and evaluate the effectiveness and impact of your messages? How do you incorporate feedback and suggestions into your messages and sustainability strategy? By testing your messages, you can improve your messages with clarity, relevance, and persuasiveness, and avoid confusion, backlash, or indifference.

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6 Here’s what else to consider

This is a space to share examples, stories, or insights that don’t fit into any of the previous sections. What else would you like to add?

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