Set your team up for success

A commitment to net zero must be embedded across your business. Success relies on commitment from your senior leadership, who will approve your net zero targets, all the way through to staff across your business, who will implement net zero actions.

Change management strategies can be utilised to embed the culture and processes needed to achieve net zero. Staff behaviour change programs will also be important to implement some pathway actions, like reducing waste. It takes engagement and good, clear, and consistent communication to set your team up for success.

 Top tips:

  •             Engage staff early and often in your net zero journey.
  •  Understand what ‘value’ and ‘impact’ mean for different teams.
  •  Use your baseline emissions footprint to identify some quick wins with high returns to motivate the team.
  •  Identify a senior level executive to sponsor the pathway.
  •  Update your company mission, policies and strategies to reflect the commitment and ensure longevity after champions move on.

Key resources

Beginner's Guide to Staff Engagement for Behavior Change

Beginner's Guide to Staff Engagement for Behavior Change

A number of efficiency measures rely on staff changing their habits and behaviours at work.

Introduction to vertical communities

A vertical community is formed when a whole commercial building, with different tenants on different floors, work together to achieve common sustainability goals that improve the occupants’ overall experience of the building.

Green office champions, campaigns & competitions

Green champions, switch-off campaigns and competitions are all ways to encourage green behaviour at work. They are all opportunities to communicate corporate values and create positive social outcomes.

Overview sustainable workplace behaviours

Overview sustainable workplace behaviours

Creating a corporate culture where staff feel empowered to take action is an essential part of any sustainability strategy. Engaging staff can take many forms. The term 'behaviour change' refers to all the workplace sustainability measures that rely on staff changing their habits, from switching off to recycling right.

Search resources

CitySwitch Signatory of the Year and New Signatory Awards - category judging criteria

  • Delivering outcomes as demonstrated by an improved or maintained current NABERS Energy rating and achieved energy savings* (up to 28 points)
  • Implementing one or more energy saving initiatives (up to 10 points)
  • Demonstrating leadership by undertaking innovative, creative or progressive office energy efficiency activities (up to 10 points)
  • Engagement of staff/ customers/suppliers and/or stakeholders to educate and create market transformation (up to 10 points)
  • Participation in CitySwitch local program activities (up to 10 points).
Note, new Signatories submitting for New Signatory of the Year Award need only complete an indicative rating – all other submissions must be accredited.

CitySwitch Partnership of the Year Award - category judging criteria

Eligibility Criteria

Submitted projects should:

  • Involve more than one registered company 
  • Demonstrate that they are  innovative and over and above “business as usual”
  • Demonstrate that they catalyse “market transformation” and or “address a market barrier”
  • Deliver a reduction in energy consumption and carbon emissions within the built environment 

Judging Criteria

  • Delivering outcomes as demonstrated by an improved or maintained current NABERS Energy rating and achieved energy savings* (up to 14 points)
  • Implementing one or more energy saving initiatives (up to 10 points)
  • Demonstrating leadership by undertaking innovative, creative or progressive office energy efficiency activities (up to 17 points)
  • Engagement of staff/ customers/suppliers and/or stakeholders to educate and create market transformation (up to 17 points)
  • Participation in CitySwitch local program activities (up to 10 points)
  • The submitting entity MUST be a CitySwitch Signatory
Note, Signatories submitting for the Partnership of the Year Award may submit an accredited NABERS tenancy, whole building or base building rating.

It’s easy and free to join the program. Your good-will commitment to the program is an acknowledgement of the business sector’s role in
contributing to environmental sustainability and your intention to reduce your own energy consumption and associated carbon emissions.

As part of this, Signatories to the program commit to achieve an accredited NABERS Energy tenancy rating (between 4 and 6 stars) and
work with CitySwitch to improve their tenancy’s environmental performance.

Find out more about how obtaining a NABERS Energy rating ensures you can benchmark your performance, better manage your progress
over time and promote your star rating achievement.