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Sustainability Drivers Template

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Sustainability Drivers Template

5th September 2012 Uncategorized 2 Comments

Here’s a simple graphical template I developed for brainstorming sustainability drivers and internal factors – effectively a SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats) analysis. Despite the crudeness of my artwork (despite a little help from clip art), I find the graphical approach gets people into a more creative mood. The analogy of the organisation as a yacht (inspired by Dame Ellen MacArthur) has a nice sustainability theme – limited resources, renewable energy powered, working with nature etc.

The four factors are:

  • Winds: external forces blowing you in the right direction (opportunities, threats of ‘do nothing’)
  • Choppy waters: external factors holding you back (threats)
  • Sails: internal ability to catch those winds (strengths, internal opportunities)
  • Anchor: internal factors holding you back (weaknesses, internal threats)

Typically, I will print this onto an A0 sheet and pin it to the wall. I ask participants to write their ideas individually on Post-Its then take it in turns to put them up, debating them as we go along. It helps to use different colour Post-Its for each of the four areas and have a fifth colour ready to record the other ideas and insights that inevitably tumble out as you go along.

Enjoy!

 

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  • Daniel O'Connor
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    September 5, 2012 at 12:28 PM

    This is excellent thanks very much. There is an iPad teaching app called ‘ScreenChomp’ where you can draw on screen, recording the screen as you go and audio- and tweet/broadcast the results. You could draw and talk through this blog post and tweet the recording.

  • Gareth
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    September 7, 2012 at 12:00 PM

    Sounds great Dan.

    By the way, lots of people have asked about using the template. I am happy for you to take single copies AS LONG as the copyright and web address are in place.

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