Performance yes, but sustainable!

Achieving lasting performance is neither a miracle nor magic, but relies on daily effort and commitment from all stakeholders.

Pillars of sustainability

To be sustainable, a high level of performance must be based on several pillars:

• Sustainable strategic planning: Strategic planning does not mean making decisions in the future, but making decisions today that will have consequences in the future (bottom-up and top-down, Hoshin Kanri ...).
• Reconfiguring operations and processes that promote sustainable stakeholder satisfaction.
• Performance management: How to set up a sustainable performance management system? How can crises (pandemics ...) best be organised and managed?
• Sustainable organization: Which operational organization promotes problem solving and continuous improvement?
• Resource management: empowerment, enabling, initiative, commitment, motivation, fulfilment at work (job satisfaction, prevention of burn-out and bore-out)
• Deployment of a sustainable performance culture: change management, learning through mistakes, participative management, training and communication.
• Corporate social responsibility and sustainable performance: the need to rapidly reduce the negative environmental and social impacts of business in the transition to a sustainable economy and society (Total Quality and Corporate Responsibility, B-Corp social certification, Environment, Lean&Green)

In short, sustainable performance is a constant search for a balance between economic, social and environmental aspects. It logically goes hand in hand with social responsibility, as it becomes increasingly important to rapidly reduce the negative environmental and social impacts of companies in the transition to a sustainable economy and society.

Program Highlights

The event is aimed in particular at industrial and service companies that want to adopt a sustainable approach. Here are the elements of the program known so far:

• The Ecoparc association and Eco Entreprise will present an overview of the approaches of more than 200 companies in the fields of sustainable development and social responsibility and trends. Speakers from CHUV, Polyval, TéléVerbier and eHnv will present their approaches.

The organizers are also pleased to have the following speakers:

• Thomas Wiesel, cabaret artist from French-speaking Switzerland. Behind his first-class mimicry, he fires off his chiselled punchlines with an authentic and minimalist style, sparing no one, especially himself.
• Jean-Pierre Egger, former top athlete and Olympic participant, elite trainer, coach and consultant for Swiss Olympic. He trains corporate executives on the path of excellence that he has developed.

Further information is available at www. forep.ch and will be updated continuously. It is also possible to attend the conference virtually, the conditions will be announced shortly. It goes without saying that the hygiene regulations in force at the time will be observed.