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Key Steps: Adopting a Sustainability Program
Step 3:
Engage Your Stakeholders and Employees
Try to meet with as many of your stakeholders (supply chain, customers, and investors) as possible to determine what environmental issues are important to them. Focus groups, Web or e-mail surveys, and open houses are easy ways to connect with your stakeholders and solicit their input. Answers to these questions can help determine your business strategies and define your sustainability program.
Consider looking to your employees to find ways to incorporate sustainability practices into product design, the supply chain, manufacturing, and the sales process. You can offer incentives to employees to bike or take alternative transportation to work or provide information on how to reduce their environmental impacts as individuals, as part of your company's sustainability initiatives.
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