Simple Supported Steps
Step 1: Decide which issues are highest priority
No single responsibility issue impacts any two businesses in exactly the same way. What is critical for one company may be immaterial for the next.
Which responsibility issues are the highest priority for your business? Are they environmental issues such as carbon footprint or biodiversity? Are they social concerns such as your impact on your local community or the health and happiness of your employees? Maybe it’s your governance or your relationships with your suppliers or customers that concern you most.
Taking our simple prioritisation exercise is the first step in your journey. It only takes five minutes or so. When you’ve completed it, you’ll receive an individual, honest and no-commitment assessment. Enjoy the process!
Step 2: Score your performance and explain your choice
Choose a high priority responsibility issue and share the story of how your company currently responds to or approaches it. What things have you stopped doing, started doing, or otherwise experimented with? Or what could you conceivably do or change? Your story is your account of what you do, how and why.
We ask that you estimate your current performance using a straightforward four point scale. On any given issue, your story explains and evidences why your organisation’s current performance is Poor, Okay, Good or Excellent. You may include previous history, future plans or any other relevant information in your written account. Please ensure all your submitted stories are in plain and simple language.
Step 3: Complete your Responsibility Indicator dashboard
To get a proper handle on your overall responsibility performance, and arrive at the right improvement plan for your organisation, we ask that you to do a little bit of work on all 24 issues. This enables us to then review and debate which issues are true priorities, how you currently perform, and where the opportunities to improve – and risks in failing to improve – lie.
We help identify what improvements to make, how and when. With support from us throughout, you’ll complete your Responsibility Indicator dashboard in no time. It’ll soon become a mine of valuable data, a map and an index. You’ll use it for internal and external reporting, for defining strategies and measuring your success in pursuit of your goals.
Step 4: Share to and borrow from our Library
Stories from participant companies are the lifeblood of Responsible 100.
Once your Responsibility Indicator dashboard is complete you’ll be to share your stories in our digital Library and explore those that other participant companies have shared. This feature helps to make Responsible 100 a vibrant, growing network through which you’ll be able to learn with – and from – other businesses and expert partner organisations.
No single company or expert partner has all the answers. By sharing your experiences, challenges, and successes, you help us collectively refine and improve our shared understanding of business responsibility, and the art of the possible.
Our Library has been designed in the knowledge that all stories from all participants are subject to constant evolution and development. As a participant, your priority issues and current performance will change and flux as your policies and practices mature, new information is gathered and events occur.
Further, and key to our model, other Responsible 100 participants and partners will be constant source of new ideas and innovations that you’ll be inspired to adopt to improve.
