Understanding Sustainability in Management course

Shoestring is contributing a module towards the Norfolk & Suffolk ‘Skills for Life’ Understanding Sustainability in Management Bootcamp. Delivered via flexible sessions in-person and online between 2 October and 15 January 2025, we will be showing all participants how low-cost tech can provide a practical way to help your company meet sustainability goals.

Running over 12 weeks, including one day a week face-to-face teaching on site at West Suffolk College’s University and Professional Development Centre, the bootcamp offers the opportunity to build your sustainability knowledge alongside your leadership and technology skills. The programmes are designed so that you can demonstrate the impact your newly acquired knowledge and skills brings to your company.

Choose a bootcamp:

There are three Eastern Education Skills bootcamps on offer:

• Understanding Sustainability in Science, 17^th Sept 2024 – 10^th Dec 2024
• Understanding Sustainability in Engineering, 2^nd Oct 2024 – 15^thJan 2025
• Understanding Sustainability in Management, 14^th Oct 2024 – 27^thJan 2025

Each course will cover the essentials in sustainability and explore practical strategies to integrate them into business operations including:

• Introduction to Sustainability
• Waste and energy management
• Leadership and culture
• The power of AI
• Shoestring: digital solutions to enhance efficiency, productivity and quality.

What will I learn from the Shoestring Digital skills module?

The Shoestring module will demystify low-cost tech and equip participants with the knowledge and tools required to build and deploy their own digital solution in their company. In this way participants, and their companies, will experience first-hand the impact digitalisation could have on helping their company meet sustainability goals.

Shoestring supported activity will include:

• In-person workshop to help identify business needs and digital starter solutions to meet them
• The framework to help participants include colleagues in the selection of a business-relevant solution
• In-person ‘build a solution’ training session
• Online support, and weekly check-in calls to support deployment of the solution in the company.
• Impact workshop to help participants review the activity, lessons learnt and the tangible and intangible business impacts of the solution. Follow up support will help participants prepare a final impact presentation for their colleagues.

What is a Shoestring starter solution?

All Shoestring’s starter solutions are built using low-cost tech and have a business impact. The process of learning to build and deploy them helps companies to improve their digital skills and confidence. In addition, the experience enables them to discover how low risk solutions can contribute to improved productivity, quality and efficiency, can help reduce waste as well as save energy and money. Participants will choose from Shoestring’s range of starter solutions.

Who should attend?

The courses are suitable for employees within businesses of all sizes and industries, as well as professionals in managerial or decision-making roles who are interested in integrating sustainability principles into their organisation’s operations.

How much will the course cost?

The courses are subsidised by the Department for Education as part of the Skills for Life Programme. Cost of attendance ranges from £280 to £840 per person depending on the size of the business.

For more information visit the website to download the information packs on each course or email Skillsforemployment@easterneducationgroup.ac.uk.

Shoestring in the East of England

This Digital skills module is part of Shoestring’s East of England regional activity, run in association with Shoestring’s regional stakeholders who include: NAAME, West Suffolk College, Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Combined Authority, West Suffolk District Council, Invest in Huntingdonshire, Cambridgeshire Chamber of Commerce, and SpaceEast.