7 Step Process

Our 7 Step Process

Each participant company shares its responsibility data through a managed, supported process. Responsible 100 uses this to create benchmarks to help all businesses to improve.

1. DETERMINE YOUR PRIORITY ISSUES

20 responsibility issues across 8 different categories are presented. Anyone can express a view as to whether, for their company or organisation, they consider the issue to be either:

>> CRITICAL - an urgent issue that we must attend to right now
>> IMPORTANT - any issue that we must tackle ASAP thereafter
>> A FACTOR - an issue that we should eventually respond to
>> NO IMPACT - an issue that doesn't materially affect our organisation

This exercise can be adapted in various ways. It can also be used as a focus for Responsible 100 led group workshops.

It brings employees together to consider and discuss the various, competing challenges that the organisation faces. Combining and comparing people’s views is an extremely good way to bring employees into the responsibility agenda from any part of the organisation, including those with no prior knowledge of or involvement in this agenda. It helps to illustrate employee roles and responsibilities in respect of how the organisation should respond.

This exercise is cost-free and without any further obligation.

2. DESCRIBE YOUR CURRENT PRACTICES

Working closely with our subject matter experts, Responsible 100 has developed a range of materials to help businesses learn more about the various issues we explore, apply that knowledge to their own organisations and circumstances, and then develop basic written accounts of what they do. They describe both the things they are doing now, and the things they plan to do or change in the future.

3. SCORE YOUR CURRENT PERFORMANCE

We support businesses in learning more about the challenges and opportunities they face, describing their practices and plans, and reflecting on how well they currently perform.

We then help companies to objectively categorise how they perform as either:

>> EXCELLENT
>> GOOD
>> OKAY
>> POOR

4. YOUR RESPONSIBILITY INDICATOR

Your Responsibility Indicator is a dashboard which combines your priorities, current performance, and links to your written case studies. It reveals the issues on which further effort and focus are needed most, e.g. where priority level is high but performance is poor. It enables businesses to map out their current performance and future plans. It underpins ongoing improvement.

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5. HELPING YOU IMPROVE WHAT YOU DO

In Steps 1-4 we enable businesses to better understand the 20 issues we explore, how these impact the business, and how well the business currently responds. We help tease out the right information, create live case studies and reports.

The next critical job is to identify where further attention is needed and where improvements can be made. We insure a focus on those issues on which improvement is both possible and advisable.

So we help companies to set goals and create the right action plans. Or, alternatively, to determine that no goals should currently be set because, on some issues, it really is okay to be OKAY and undertakings to improve should be focused on other issues instead.

We help businesses to learn and improve through workshops. On some, we partner with inspiring issue experts. These are consultants from business or civil society, subject matter experts and professionals. We partner people with real passion for their issue and the drive and skills to help a range of organisations truly understand it, learn what policies and practices they should discontinue, and which new ones they could perhaps adopt to improve their overall response.

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We also run our own workshops to bring your up to a minimum standard on any of the 20 issues we explore.

Using data collected from Steps 1-4, Responsible 100 will lead your organisation through a workshop discussing your current practices, sharing different ideas and possible future strategies or directions, and analyse your performance against our researched benchmarks.

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6. NETWORK AND LEARN THROUGH A SUPPORTIVE COHORT

Businesses and organisations that participate in Responsible 100 are networked together so that they may learn from one another, share success stories - and sometimes stories of failure too, offer up ideas, make suggestions, ask for and offer advice, and generally be supportive, 'critical friends'. All participants' accounts of the policies and practices they pursue, their reasons for adopting them, and their future plans etcetera, issue by issue, are networked in ever-growing, ever more valuable benchmarks as illustrated below. Participants' accounts - their live case studies of what they do - are valuable to them, to other participants, and to those yet to join.

7. SHARE LIVE CASE STUDIES

Businesses and organisations that participate in Responsible 100 are networked together so that they may learn from one another, share success stories - and sometimes stories of failure too, offer up ideas, make suggestions, ask for and offer advice, and generally be supportive, 'critical friends'. All participants' accounts of the policies and practices they pursue, their reasons for adopting them, and their future plans etcetera, issue by issue, are networked in ever-growing, ever more valuable benchmarks as illustrated below. Participants' accounts - their live case studies of what they do - are valuable to them, to other participants, and to those yet to join.

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