SUSE840 Sustainability and Change

Requirements

    

Leadership for Change: who are YOU to successfully lead a sustainability change initiative? Why should employees or managers positively respond to you or follow you?

Please read the article “The ant who lives forever” which you can find online under course assessment. I will also upload a few other articles in this section about the psychology of sustainability leadership. These articles talk about how those who make true inroads into sustainability problems and opportunities, also require a new mindset. This reflection is aimed at you analysing and understanding your own mindset.

The following questions may assist you in preparing/crafting your reflection, but a good reflection assignment would go significantly beyond you answering questions that a third party has set:

1. What is your association with sustainability? Why that one and not another?

2. How do you speak about sustainability in class, in your organisation, in your private life?

3. Do you feel hopeful or hopeless when you engage in discussions about environmental or social problems in the world?

4. What words, sentences, ideas, opinions and knowledge do you contribute to the small group and class/work debates? On the basis of these examples, how effective are you in influencing others towards sustainability?

5. Note some of the sustainability words/sentences/responses and ideas of others in your class/work: What words of others make you feel energised what type of contributions deplete your energy?

6. What is your current role (in all aspects of your life) in contributing to, and taking care of, the problems the planet is currently facing? If you/your family are changing your consumption and waste management patterns: what drives such change? If you are not, what makes you resistant to such changes?

7. How would you know you that in your professional role you had made enough changes to safeguard the environment for the next generations?

8. How would you know you had done enough in your working life to safeguard the environment for the next generations?

9. What are the sustainability organisational change initiatives in your immediate environment that work, don’t work. Why and what role do you play in this?