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environmental expert, but they don’t have to be. Look for employees who have proven to be engaged with their work and are always finding new ways to improve. Invite local experts to come speak to your group about key goals or areas you want them to focus on. Here’s an idea to get your group started: Food waste has a tremendous impact on the environment, and the reason starts all the way back on the farm. Our friends at Recycle Coach make this idea a little more digestible. Approximately 38% of land on Earth is used to produce food, but about 32% of all food that is produced is wasted. This means the cost — both monetarily and environmentally — that it took to produce, package, ship, purchase, and prepare that food has all gone to waste. All told, lost or wasted food accounts for 8% of greenhouse gas emissions, according to Recycle Coach. You can help eliminate these statistics in your employee kitchen. Inspect your kitchen’s food supply once per week to determine if items can be donated to local food pantries or services. (Your task force can determine the timeline and Continued on Page 6 ...
For eco-conscious programs, reward employees who recycle the most or carpool, bike, and walk to work. As this friendly competition fires up, your team will grow closer and become more dedicated to this cause. To build on the camaraderie, partner with your employees to volunteer at a cleanup or local conservation event. This creates meaningful change and builds strong employee relationships. Rethink your systems. Could you be doing more to protect the environment? The answer is probably yes, but do you know where to start? Begin by developing a task force of employees dedicated to examining the business processes and products; they can help determine how to improve your systems for a more sustainable framework. The tricky part about this is that not everyone who serves on the task force will be an
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environment to make good choices easier and bad choices harder. For example, if you want to foster better relationships with your employees, have open office hours daily and encourage them to drop in. Literally keep your door open during that time and don’t schedule other tasks. Optimize for the starting line, not the finish line. Make it as easy as possible to get started on your new habit, then focus on getting your reps in each day. Clear says the quality of the daily practice, whatever form it takes, doesn’t matter as much as the repetition.
Reward yourself in the present. We only repeat behaviors we enjoy, yet many things that are good for us in the long run don’t feel great in the short run. To circumvent this, track your habits on a calendar as a reward after doing your daily rep(s). Mark each day you do your new habit with an X, build a chain, and try not to ever miss two days in a row. Entrepreneurs tend to think big; that’s how you get a new company off the ground. But for long-term growth and success, get clear on the small actions you can repeat each day to strengthen your chops.
Job 14:7 — "For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease." Isaiah 44:3 — "For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground: I will pour my spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thine offspring." James 3:13 — "Who is wise and understanding among you? Let them show it by their good life, by deeds done in the humility that comes from wisdom."
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