POUSSEletter 5: green skills

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🥰 1 inspiring and positive news
🌱 A blog post
🎤 1 resource to progress
✍️ 1 quote that nourishes
❓ 1 question to think about

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Wellness tip of the week

Are you tired of meetings and extended points that immobilize you for hours in a windowless room?

We have what you need: co-walking.

The co-walking (or "walking meeting") was highlighted by the founder of Apple, Steve Jobs, but has its origins in thinkers such as Freud or Aristotle who praised the benefits of walking on thought .

This practice, also adopted by the Californian headquarters of LinkedIn or Mark Zuckerberg, is the ideal alternative to traditional meetings, promoting well-being, creativity and communication at the same time.

To your sneakers!

The theme of the week

FROM SOFT SKILLS TO "GREEN SKILLS"

In January 2022, the European Commission presented its new European framework of “green” competences, “the green comp”, where it urged teachers and trainers to place sustainability at the heart of the education system, and by extension, of the professional world .

🔎Green skills are the technical skills, knowledge, values ​​and attitudes needed to develop and support sustainable social, economic and environmental outcomes in business, industry and community.

They are more often understood, especially by young people, as simply the skills needed to live and work in an environmentally friendly way and try to contribute to the fight against climate change in everyday life and activities. .

Taking into account the ecological transition is no longer an option in business. To respond to the urgency of environmental sustainability, organizations rely on these "green skills" to recruit. What are we talking about exactly? We tell you everything!

It inspires us

According to a 2022 LinkedIn report, "green skills are those that ensure the environmental sustainability of economic activities."

The platform notes that the share of green jobs in recruitments has increased by almost 60% since 2016 , with a clear acceleration since 2019 (+30%). As for positions that require at least one green skill, they represented 53.5% of recruitments last year.

We have studied these "green skills" for you, here is what to remember:

👍 The 5 "green skills" to develop urgently:

• Adopt a systemic and holistic vision : you have to think about the overall structure of the company and understand the repercussions of a decision on all the stakeholders.
• Think long term .
• Work collectively and transversally.
• Be ethical and responsible : no more decisions taken without taking into account the social and environmental consequences!
• Become a driver of change : employees must be enabled to evolve in an agile way to promote transformation.

🌱 5 ways to make your business greener:

• Work out your carbon footprint. Even if it is only one indicator among others, it is increasingly requested, whether by customers or large banks.
• Involve all employees in the CSR policy, and be inspired by the new generations , who are very sensitive to climate issues.
• Communicate, communicate, communicate. The more we raise awareness, the more we educate, the better off the planet will be.
• Encourage digital sobriety. Do you remember our last POUSSEletter on AI? Well, we have a big ecological black spot right under our eyes: our mailbox, to begin with. This is the sign you've been waiting for to empty it!
• Green your offices.

🤝 What we remember:

• The craze for green skills is far from being a mere fad. Developing them is no longer an option, just like rethinking the entire operation of companies to face the climate challenge.
• The best way to develop your green skills is to train within your company via colleagues who inspire best practices, internal CSR projects and synergies with academia.
• Climate issues will require more transformations of existing professions than the creation of new ones.

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POUSSE talks about it

Attracting employees through a virtuous work environment: how greening offices can make a difference?

Companies are constantly looking to attract the best talent and retain their most talented employees.

Do you know that greening your offices can reduce turnover and strengthen your corporate culture?

Find out how to improve your employer brand while reconnecting your offices to nature on the POUSSE blog.

Read the article

In our ears

THE "GREENLETTER CLUB" PODCAST: peeling ecology

Should we eat less fish? Will we soon be able to fly an electric plane? What will France look like in 2050?
In the Greenletter Club, Maxime Thuillez gives the floor to hyper-specific personalities to dissect major ecological issues. From the captain of industry to the boss of NGOs, passing by the oil specialist, he enters for more than an hour in the intimacy of subjects that will change the world and our daily lives.

Listen to the podcast

The quote of the week

"If you think you're too small to change anything, then try sleeping with a mosquito in your room."
-Betty Reese

The question of the week

✍️ HOW DO YOU DEVELOP YOUR GREEN SKILLS?

To share your story, a thought, an advice, click on the "Reply" button. We will share our exchanges in the next POUSSEletter.

Can't wait to read you!

Answer to previous question

✍️ AND YOU, CHATGPT, WHAT DO YOU THINK?

Thank you for reading the fifth edition of POUSSEletter!
See you here for the next one: POUSSEletter n°6
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