Leadership

Leading Sustainable Management of the Environment

B1 Promote behavioural and cultural change by influencing others to secure environmental improvements that go beyond statutory requirements.

1. Develop good practices that go beyond statutory requirements by learning from results.
2. Lead, advise and support others to improve their understanding of the wider environmental context.
3. Advocate sustainable management of the environment by identifying issues, potential risks, benefits and opportunities and influence others, in particular from other disciplines, to contribute to environmental protection and improvement.
    

B2 Develop and maintain a strategic environmental approach.

1. Develop innovative strategies for sustainable development and environmental improvement.
2. Promote inclusion and diversity and engage and collaborate with others to promote inter-disciplinary approaches to environmental challenges.
3. Evaluate constraints and exploit opportunities for the development and transfer of environmentally appropriate techniques, skills, methods, processes, and behaviours.
4. Identify and manage risks to the environment encompassing health and safety, technologies, business, and reputation.
    

B3 Demonstrate leadership and management skills.

1. Demonstrate autonomy and judgement in managing complex environmental and sustainability issues.
2. Lead, motivate and convince others to agree and deliver environmental and sustainability objectives.
3. Specify the objectives of a task, implement it and critically evaluate the outcome.
4. Plan and manage continuous environmental improvement.

Effective communication

Effective Communication and Interpersonal Skills

C1 Communicate the environmental case, confidently, clearly, autonomously and competently.

1. Deliver presentations to a diverse range of audiences.
2. Chair, lead and contribute to debates, meetings, and discussions.
3. Lead and promote stakeholder engagement.
    

C2 Ability to liaise with, negotiate with, handle conflict and advise others, in individual and/or group environments (either as a leader or member).

1. Build relationships to capture and incorporate the opinions and contributions of others.
2. Understand the motives and attitudes of others to reach agreement.
3. Lead decision-making and champion group decisions.
   Resolve conflict to achieve common goals within groups, and tasks.

Personal commitment

Personal Commitment to Professional Standards, Recognising Obligations to Society, the Profession and the Environment

D1 Plan, undertake and evaluate CPD activities to maintain and enhance competence in area of practice.

1. Plan, undertake, reflect on, and evaluate CPD activities.
    

D2 Assess and resolve environmental ethical issues.

1. Identify, assess, and resolve, and encourage others to resolve, environmental ethical issues.
2. Improve environmental practice by addressing complex ethical issues.
    

D3 Understand demonstrate and advocate compliance with relevant codes of conduct and practice.

1. Understand, comply, and advocate compliance with relevant codes of conduct and practice.