Recognize and support positive behaviors and impactful involvement by aligning your compensation & benefits policies
Design sustainable compensation that promotes sustainable behaviours (balance between base / variable). This will ensure your compensation drives the right behaviors (long term development versus short term gains, collaboration versus individualistic behavior)
Define your compensation philosophy to ensure pay equity, especially for employees who might have interrupted their career (returning parents to the workforce), minorities (with less access to higher education grade). Take into account the skills needed to complete the job, rather than the years of experience or the diploma. Define a framework for your compensation to ensure correct mapping of your roles and employees, as per the skills and experience needed to perform each job.
Run audits on your compensation by gender to ensure gender pay equality and correct gaps.
If you feel comfortable, as a commitment to pay equality you can publish internally your salary ranges (minimum & maximum), so each employee knows they are fairly compensated for a given job.
If that is not already the case, automate all payment processes to allow for easy and swift payments.
See some examples of different companies' approches terms of compensation policies in this article: Corporate Citizenship.
Being clear on how your employees performance is assessed, ensures alignment, clarity and focus on deliverables.
You can add some sustainable goals that support your overall strategy as follows:
- Learn more about SMART Goals and SMART Method (Question Pro)
- Find some Employees Evaluation form templates
With the rising need to conserve and protect our environment, the first green store (TFGS) encourages individuals and enterprises to adopt environmentally responsible lifestyles, and advocate for Corporate Social Responsibility policies, through the products given away during various occasions and events. We work with partners who are certified for Ethical Practices in their manufacturing process, and our retail brands are very carefully chosen keeping in mind their design, environmental and social impacts.
Left-handesign is Singapore's 1st Plantable sustainable stationery & lifestyle brand playfully designed with light & love. We celebrate collections inspired by simple joys of travel, art, nature, food, impressions as seen in day to day life.
Under left-handesign we design all our ‘Plantable Series’ called BĪJ a Sanskrit word that means Seed. Our range of products includes Pencils, Pens and Notebooks, Gift tags which you can Plant into an herb like tomato, chili, marigold, tulsi (indian basil), spinach, okra, morning glory, mustard seeds.
Left-handesign was founded with a simple mission: put Nature back into peoples' lives. Through their "PLANT A TREE IN YOUR NAME” Program, they plant a tree for EVERY purchase.
Gift Empire offers generic and customised marketing & promotional products.
They are not specialised in sustainable products but have an eco-friendly range comprised of notebooks, pencils, bags...
Guardians of Mother Earth is a green initiative of The Golden Space. They aim to create more awareness about our impact on the planet through free talks, clean-up campaigns, workshops, art exhibitions, etc. They also provide services to corporate clients on how to build a sustainable green culture through various workshops, team building events, retreats and corporate social responsibility activities.
EcoMatcher plants trees and complete forests with vetted foundations from around the world specialized in tree planting.
Through technology, EcoMatcher knows everything of every tree planted. You can virtually travel to every tree and learn more.
Companies use EcoMatcher’s digital platform and the trees for meaningful corporate gifting -, rewards -, loyalty -, employee engagement -, and transparent carbon offset - programs.
EcoMatcher is a certified B Corporation.
Think sustainability in your recognition programs:
EcoMatcher plants trees and complete forests with vetted foundations from around the world specialized in tree planting.
Through technology, EcoMatcher knows everything of every tree planted. You can virtually travel to every tree and learn more.
Companies use EcoMatcher’s digital platform and the trees for meaningful corporate gifting -, rewards -, loyalty -, employee engagement -, and transparent carbon offset - programs.
EcoMatcher is a certified B Corporation.
Bamboo Straw Girl works directly with makers (fair-trade) and focuses on producing meaningful lifestyle products that are low-impact from production to delivery and usage.
The founder Melissa Lam aims at engaging eco conversations, starting with the simple bamboo straw. The novel item became a small ripple at the beginning of the growth of the zero-waste movement in Singapore. Melissa is a TedX speaker and actively promotes the environmental message through her school and corporate talks. With her team, she focuses on waste reduction and on impacting the communities of artisans they work with in South East Asia.
The company conducts corporate talks, lunchtime info sessions, educational workshops, and pop-up retail booths. The company also produces corporate gifts that are curated to suit the corporate theme and guide their clients in selecting the most relevant item to promote their green message.
Bloomback provides eco-friendly and everlasting preserved flowers from upcycled events flowers, for your:
They also empower marginalised communities, providing skills training and employment.
The Projector is the only indie cinema in Singapore. It hosts the Intermission Café and Bar serving F&B.
On Fridays and Saturdays, they offer live acoustic performances.
The Sustainability Project is a Singapore-based business which aims to encourage and inspire the adoption of low or zero waste lifestyle. This is done through 3 arms – Educate, Transform and Inspire.
Educate - Through their blog articles, they share our knowledge and passion towards sustainability. You can find tips on a sustainable lifestyle, chats with other green business owners and other related information to sustainability.
Transform - Through their store, they want to enable low or zero waste lifestyle by providing consumers a wide range of sustainable products that are of high quality and at affordable prices.
Inspire – Through planning events (e.g. talks, workshops, educational trips and more), they want to inspire the next generation to be a change-maker for Mother Earth.
Products: In their online store, they sell various sustainable lifestyle products; mainly bathroom and kitchen essentials such as cutlery set, shampoo bars and more. They also have a series of pre-loved and imperfect products for sale.
Corporate Events: They plan events for corporates and schools to share more about embarking on a sustainable journey e.g. talks, workshops, educational trips and more.
Your Sustainable Store is a Singapore-based online store created to make a wide range of curated, stylish and affordable sustainable products easily available. They are constantly on the look out for more amazing products to bring to you. They hope that by offering practical yet stylish alternatives, they can inspire more to lead an environmentally aware lifestyle.
Products range from cutlery, cups, to cosmetics and cleaning accessories.
The « green journey » may feel overwhelming sometimes, but you are not alone.
Our Buddies have tried, succeeded, failed to implement change in their companies. They share their experience so you can learn, take shortcuts, get inspired and ask questions.
Everybody can become a Buddy and give back to the community; if you are keen, get in touch with us.
Claire has spent more than 20 years in the HR field working in global environments, accompanying businesses in their development and transformation.
Working across teams and cultural boundaries, she became passionate about helping teams and leaders navigate through changes and make sustainable decisions for themselves and their teams, balancing the short-term and long-term impacts in organisations.
She moved to Singapore for a professional opportunity 9 years ago. Back in 2016, she added a coaching hat to her HR experience, got trained and certified with the idea that sometimes what employees and leaders are missing is to reconnect with what is really important for them, what makes them successful, or on the contrary slows them down.
In 2021, she launched her own business, combining her HR and professional coaching expertises to accompany individuals and organisations in their journey, with a focus on enabling sustainable People practices.
I have been working in Asia for the past 12 years (Shanghai, Hong Kong and Singapore since 2014) within the digital and technology space.
I have founded and run several companies in different sectors such as IT Consulting, Education, and the F&B business.
I am passionate about how to use technology as a force for good.
Most of my professional career was in Sales and Marketing for emissions-intensive sectors (automotive, telecom, oil and gas industries) to say the least…. But I always knew I had to look for a greater purpose. Covid19 slowed down my professional activities and helped me to follow my passion. I decided to open a new chapter and follow a new career path, but to do so, I had to study sustainability.
I particularly like innovation and tech, so I wish to pursue my career with a tech for good angle.
Carolin is a passionate and driven entrepreneur and sustainability advocate. She is involved in many projects and initiatives that contribute to reducing our environmental impact.
In 2020, Carolin founded the social enterprise susGain.
susGain is a rewards-based engagement app that focuses on driving behavioural change within communities (corporates, schools, NGOs etc.) whilst measuring ESG reportable data on the impact created. By better connecting the environmentally and socially conscious stakeholders, susGain hopes to accelerate the change towards more sustainable communities.
Prior to susGain, Carolin worked as Account & Project Manager in an HR consulting and change management firm, where she was responsible for business development and end-to-end project management of training and consulting projects across APAC.
In July 2021, Carolin won the Finder's Expatpreneur Sustainability Award. susGain has also been recognized by Global Initiatives at the Sustainable Business Awards Singapore 2020/21.
I run a business called Bright Green where I work with corporates to engage employees in impact projects in the areas of environmental and social impact. I also facilitate sustainability learning programs to educate employees on developing an eco-friendly mindset and high impact actions they can take in their homes and daily lives.
Before founding Bright Green in 2020, I have been working in Project Management, Change Management and Continuous Improvement roles within Human Resources and Recruitment. I love that I get to work with organisations that are making commitments to net-zero and inspire employees to make an impact!
I was born in Vietnam and grew up in France in Paris’ low income suburbs. My parents used to bring us to the park to have some outdoor activities and that’s where my father taught my siblings and I to observe, love and respect nature. He gave us perspective on our place in a much bigger ecosystem.
At that time, we didn’t describe our family as “sustainable”. It was very pragmatic, we didn’t waste anything, we mended everything, saved and reused, because we just couldn’t afford not to :)
In 2018 in Singapore, after what felt like a long, unfulfilling professional tunnel on autopilot, I was forced to make a pause and took the opportunity to consider what I really wanted to do with my life (I know this resonates with many!)
Then I really realised how passionate I was about sustainability and for the first time, I considered making it my job. Nothing is easy when you don’t hold the right degrees or the right amount of money, so I co-created The Matcha Initiative to jump into action instead of procrastinating. That’s how you start an amazing experience with amazing people :)
Cherry on the cake: TMI helped me land my current job at Handprint, where we help businesses embrace the next step - Regeneration.
