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Advantages and disadvantages of face to face sales
The costs and benefits associated with selling in person such as building personal relationships and persuasion.
Material efficiency and reducing waste in your hotel
How to reduce waste and use materials more efficiently in areas across your hotel including procurement and office, bedroom, kitchen and cleaning consumables
Save water in your hotel
Use water more efficiently in your hotel in guest rooms, catering, laundry, swimming pools and grounds maintenance, investigate alternative water sources
Ten top tips for resource efficiency in your hotel
Easy-to-follow tips for improving energy, water and materials efficiency and reducing waste in your hotel, from controlling bedroom temperatures to recycling
Energy efficiency in your hotel
Save money, enhance your reputation and help the environment by making your hotel more energy efficient through best practice environmental techniques
Negotiate and close the sale
How to manage a negotiation, and ways of getting the client to commit to your product or service
Life cycle assessment
How to assess the life cycle of your products and services to calculate the possible impact on the environment
Corporate ecosystem services assessment
How to assess how your business depends and impacts on natural resources and services
Setting environmental targets
Setting targets so that you can measure your business' improvements from the environmental baseline
Acting on your environmental review
An action plan provides the method through which environmental improvements are achieved
Establishing the baseline for an environmental review
How to assess the current environmental performance situation in your business to establish a baseline
Make the non-financial case for environmental improvements
The non-financial factors to consider when persuading management about the viability of environmental improvements.
What is an environmental review?
An environmental review is a three-stage process of assessing environmental performance and making improvements.
Why making environmental improvements is good for business
Environmental improvements can improve your business image to attract and retain good staff and generate good publicity.
Motivating staff to make environmental improvements
How to gauge company-wide interest, appoint environmental champions, delegate responsibilities and encourage initiative.
Environmental teams and champions
Advice on choosing the right person or team to co-ordinate and facilitate your business culture change.
Make the financial case for environmental improvements
Carrying out investment appraisals can help to convince management about the viability of environmental improvements.
Ongoing environmental improvement
Plan and collect feedback, set targets, monitor success, change, adapt and re-evaluate to keep on track.
Maintain communication about environmental improvements
Keep sharing ideas, train staff, take time out, be honest if things go wrong, encourage and incentivise.
Changing your organisation's environmental culture
Create a new working culture with shared vision, good teamwork and improved environmental awareness.