CSRD (Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive) covers a wide range of topics, both in its content (environmental topics, social issues, governance issues) and in its methodology (analysis of double materiality, value chain...). In fact, he is It is wise to train project teams in all these challenges, to ensure that they get the most out of the exercise.

The CSRD is also a place to promote your actions in place to deal with the various subjects that impact you. One of the recurring and easily valued actions in your report is the training your teams, on all issues.

In this article, we are going to take a look at all the courses suggested directly or indirectly by the CSRD.

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What training course for my CSRD team?

The teams in charge of producing your CSRD report must master the concepts and understand their ins and outs. Training them before the exercise is one of the most effective ways to ensure this.

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What training courses are available to master CSRD concepts?

The teams in charge of the project are in most cases made up of people who do not usually manage CSR issues: it is one of the many advantages of CSRD to desegister teams.

CFO, operations managers, purchasing managers, IT department... All these people will have to intervene to produce your sustainability report. It is therefore necessary to make sure that they understand the importance of the exercise, and the topics covered..

For this, numerous training courses exist:

• ESG awareness webinar
• e-learning to understand what a double materiality analysis is
• training workshop on the impact of CSR on operational jobs...

In this way, all stakeholders will be fully involved in the project and will be strong supporters of it.

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What training courses for my management team?

Do you want to take advantage of CSRD as an opportunity to infuse CSR into your company? For that, your management team must be an unwavering supporter of the approach.

In addition, the CSRD requires describing the extent to which your management committees (board of directors, executive committees, etc.) are experts in sustainability topics that you have identified as material (GOV-1). Yes, for these most important issues for you, it is essential that your management bodies can make informed decisions thanks to increased knowledge of the subjects, otherwise you would lose all credibility.

In fact, if your management is not yet trained on these subjects, it is high time to do so!

Preferably select training courses specific to your material impacts or risks, then expand the topics covered by your training courses as needed.

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What training courses for my employees?

Influencing my CSR strategy at all levels is also the objective of CSRD. So you have plenty of free fields in your sustainability report for promote all the training actions you carry out with your operational teams.

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How do I train my employees on environmental issues?

Climate change has and will have greater or lesser consequences on all businesses and on all professions. The CSRD suggests that you train your employees to prepare them:

• At the same time to the direct consequences of climate change on their working conditions (e.g. working under heat peaks)
• And to indirect consequences that may occur on their daily lives and their ways of working (e.g. new skills to be developed to adapt production methods).

Experts indicate that all professions will be affected in the more or less long term, so we advise you to train your teams today to better anticipate tomorrow's conditions.

At Kiosk, we recommend training the jobs that are most at risk first, to explain the expected impacts to them.

For all environmental issues (water management, waste management, waste management, pollution, biodiversity), it is likely that you will have to adapt your processes in order to reduce your impacts. For a successful transition, don't overlook the importance ofEmbark all your operational jobs with the help of dedicated training courses.

Finally, the CSRD asks you to describe your policies related to climate change adaptation or mitigation (E1-2). If you have a training policy that covers these aspects for your teams, it can definitely be used for this purpose.

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How do I train my employees on social issues?

The social theme is the most obvious and the most explicit on the subject of training within CSRD. In fact, disclosure requirement (DR) S1-13 is directly dedicated to your training programs for the development of skills and the employability of your employees. In addition to CSR-oriented training, do not neglect the continuous training of your employees in their areas of expertise.

To complement these specific training courses for each profession, the CSRD suggests numerous training courses on social subjects to improve the sensitivity of your teams to these subjects:

• Program of discrimination awareness (S1-1) - in general for managers, this training aims to raise awareness and teach resolution strategies to prevent and deal with cases of discrimination (whether systemic or incidental).
• Preventing workplace harassment (S1-17) - both for employees with problem behaviors and for managers, in order to prevent these behaviors
• Training on diversity and inclusion (S1-4) - in general with a focus on ethnic dimensions
• Formation health and safety (S1-14) - mainly for employees in production

All these training courses are also necessary to allow a caring working environment in your teams.

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How do I train my employees on governance issues?

Based on the legal obligations of European companies to train their employees on the subjects of fight against corruption (Sapin II law in France), the CSRD asks companies to publish in their sustainability report theThe content and frequency of their mandatory training on these subjects. (G1-4)

It is therefore impossible to miss it, you must be completely transparent about the number of hours of training provided, especially for your categories of employees who are most at risk of being subject to incidents of corruption or bribery.

Finally, your complaints and alert management employees must be trained on the subject, including on the protection of whistle-blowers (G1-1). We therefore advise you – if not already the case, to train your employees accordingly.

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Leading the training for my CSRD report

Training for your teams is good – to manage these trainings so that they can be included in your report is better. Here are the things you need to know so that you can indicate them in your report.

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Propose appropriate content

First of all, your training must have a programme tailored to the objective you give them: if you want to reduce cases of harassment at work, opt for awareness-raising workshops on this subject, if you want to modify your industrial processes to adapt to climate change, prefer training sessions of the relevant teams that cover both theory and practice.

In any case, in order to enhance your sustainability report, you must be able to explain the content of the training provided.

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Knowing the typologies of trained employees

To better contextualize your training programmes, the CSRD offers you to detail the types of employees you have trained. Are they all your employees? Employees at a site subject to a particular risk? A team with a specific job? From your managers? From your technicians?

Each employee profile should undergo training tailored to the impacts and risks affecting him or her and his or her skills.

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Monitor the number of hours of training

The last thing you need to follow your training is the associated KPIs.

To give credibility to your training allegations, the CSRD asks you to indicate the total number of hours followed for each employee, by training, and to be able to compile these numbers by gender and category of employee.

For example, the CSRD offers you this table of response for anti-corruption training.

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Conclusion

Whether it's your CSRD project teams or your operational teams, training on ESG issues is an extremely valuable action within your sustainability report. It is up to you to select the best training courses, consistent with your material stakes, and to follow them rigorously so that they can be credibly described in your report.