About this workshop
International standards and legislation require businesses to report their progress in addressing negative human rights impacts. To effectively demonstrate this progress, businesses must measure and assess the effectiveness of their due diligence actions. Simply implementing due diligence processes and measures is insufficient; companies must also show that these measures successfully achieve the desired outcomes. This workshop is designed to provide businesses with essential insights on measuring the effectiveness of their efforts to manage adverse human rights impacts. Participants will learn how to develop appropriate Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and discuss how to tackle common challenges.
Details
- Online only
- Intermediate
- Modules: 1
- Study: Online workshop
- Duration: 2.5 hours
- £545 (excl. VAT)
Features
- Interactive & practical
- Includes exercises
- Provides actionable advice
- Fosters peer-sharing knowledge
- Led by our CEO
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Enquire HereWho's it suitable for?
Sustainability managers:. This workshop will provide sustainability professionals with essential insights and guidelines on how to successfully measure the effectiveness of the measures they implement to address the business’s salient human rights impacts.
Legal/Compliance teams:. This workshop will help compliance teams and legal professionals who prepare the business’s annual progress reports understand how to measure effectiveness to enhance the quality of reporting.
Chief Financial Officers (CFOs). CFOs are increasingly getting involved in the measurement and reporting of the company’s sustainability activities. This workshop will provide them with key insights into how human rights due diligence efforts can be measured to inform the company’s report
Procurement professionals. This workshop will equip procurement professionals with valuable insights into building human rights-oriented KPIs and prompt them to consider whether existing KPIs render the business vulnerable to human rights violations.
Learning outcomes
01. Understand the importance of tracking implementation and effectiveness.
02. Explore how businesses can monitor implementation and results.
03. Identify which stakeholders should be involved in this process and what information should be tracked.
04. Discover the key steps to develop effective Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).
05. Gain insight into essential human rights due diligence and reporting legislation that mandates the use of KPIs in corporate reporting.
06. Understand the role of stakeholder engagement in creating KPIs.
07. Consider the challenges businesses encounter in measuring effectiveness and developing KPIs, as well as strategies to overcome these challenges.
Testimonials
‘Excellent course with relevant business-focused practical examples, I found the course very thought provoking and will apply in my work..’
– Neil la Croix, Director at Shaneni Consultants Ltd
‘Colleen is an exceptional expert who consistently delivers relevant and up-to-date training.’
– anonymous participant
About the Instructor
Colleen is a tri-qualified solicitor and founder of Ardea International, a specialist company that provides sustainability, business and human rights and modern slavery expertise to enable companies to meet both their legal obligations and develop voluntary best practice standards. She is a fellow of IEMA and a research fellow of the Bakhita Centre for Research on Slavery and Abuse and a lecturer at Birkbeck University, London on human rights and business. She has over 30 years of legal and commercial experience working with business, and organisations and provides training and online resources on human rights, modern slavery and sustainability issues. Her book ‘Strategic Sustainable Procurement: law and best practice‘ is published by Routledge. She recently published a chapter ‘Modern Slavery and Transparency in Supply Chains- the Role of Business’ in The Modern Slavery Agenda: Policy, Politics and Practice in the UK’. A more recent chapter is ‘The Role of Business in the Exploitationand Rehabilitation of victims of modern slavery’ – Policy Press 2023.
Why study with Ardea?
At Ardea, we pride ourselves on our teaching methods. We are an ISEP-accredited training centre (The Institute of Sustainability and Environmental Professionals), with years of experience in training organisations. Our workshops are interactive, providing a virtual space for constructive dialogue and peer-sharing knowledge. We share insights from real case studies, grounding learning in practical and applicable advice. Through our training, you will gain a deeper understanding of key human rights legislation, giving you confidence in applying it in practice. Our workshops are led by our CEO and tri-qualified lawyer, Colleen Theron, who leverages over 25 years of legal and commercial expertise to support you in meeting your legal obligations and developing best practice procedures.