Charting a path for your responsible business journey

Let’s help you identify, plan, implement, measure, communicate and continually improve your sustainability efforts

The road to corporate responsibility can seem complex and overwhelming. But making sense of emerging pressures and opportunities, and integrating sustainability into your business model is critical to your success. At RBC, we help you imagine and then build a clear pathway for your responsible business journey, partnering with you every step the way.

Identify your impacts

How does your business impact the environment and your community, employees, customers and suppliers? Where are the opportunities and risks? Where can you make a positive impact and where do you need to avoid making a negative one?

We help you identify your impacts across all or a selection of impact areas. This may be in the form of a risk assessment involving workshops with key employees, developing a detailed impacts register (see Environmental Management Systems) or engaging with internal and external stakeholders to identify material issues to disclose in your corporate sustainability report.

Though you know your business best, we help facilitate this assessment and formalise your approach. Our broad cross-sector experience gives us a unique perspective so we can challenge your assumptions and add rigour to your process.

Plan your approach

What will you do about the impacts you’ve identified? What’s your mission or goal? Do you have a strategy or management system to guide you? We help you set a direction that matches your brand, suits your culture and fits your business model. Whether you need an overarching policy or strategy, or a comprehensive environmental management system we make sure you set things up right from the start.

Implement your initiatives

It’s time to turn your words into action. What kinds of initiatives will help you achieve your identified goals? Have you allocated the financial and staff resources to implement your strategy? We help you develop tailored, impactful initiatives. Whether it be developing a long-term community investment program, a one-off stakeholder event or an energy audit to identify future savings, we draw on our knowledge of leading practice initiatives and industry tools to ensure your actions translate into positive impacts.

Measure your impact

How do you know if you’re on track with your goals and achieving what you set out to? Where are the gaps between your objectives and current performance and where should you focus your energy? Are you required to measure and report your impact or progress to authorities or membership organisations? We set up simple monitoring tools that put figures at your fingertips so you spend less time chasing data and more time weighing up decisions. We’re across the technical standards, guidelines and protocols so you can focus on what the numbers mean for your business.

Communicate your progress

Are you inspiring stakeholders with news of how your business is working to deliver on its promises? Do you know what information they need or expect? Don’t underestimate the importance of communicating your impact data and engaging with your stakeholders. We share insights gained from working with leading practice sustainability reporters and tailor an approach to your needs. These are based on where you are on your responsible business journey, your current engagement with stakeholders and your unique set of impacts.

Continuous improvement

It doesn’t stop there – it’s a continuous journey. As your organisation grows and community expectations change, there’ll always be new impacts to consider, new initiatives to implement, and it’s important to assess whether you’re still on the right track. We challenge and encourage you to keep up with leading practice – or even set a new benchmark amongst your peers.

Need help navigating your journey to more responsible business practices?