Responsible Business Management Training

Join our course and master the design and delivery of responsible business strategies and programmes

Developing Responsible Business Leaders and Programmes

Responsible Business Management Training from Business in the Community (BITC) is a six-module training programme for professionals designing and delivering responsible business strategies and corporate responsibility programmes.

The six modules focus on a different area of skill and knowledge required to develop and implement a responsible business strategy. Your organisation or sector may call this work corporate responsibility (CR), corporate social responsibility (CSR), sustainability or corporate citizenship but at Business in the Community (BITC) we call it responsible business. Irrespective of the name used, BITC can help you put creating healthy communities and a healthy environment at the centre of your strategy to achieve long-term financial value.

Elevate your operations

Key benefits to your organisation

Develop skills and tools to create and implement a responsible business strategy and implement your CR activities

Learn from responsible business experts at BITC and relevant membership organisations

Increase organisational buy-in for your responsible business ambitions

Gain confidence and enhance your influence outside your team

Receive a certificate in responsible business upon programme completion

Access to a network of peers on the course and join an active alumni network

Our training programme

Our Six Training Modules

Develop a strong understanding of the case for responsible business and the steps towards developing your organisation’s RB or CR strategy. Get to grips with the importance of having clear purpose, ambition and targets that have a clear link to the Global Goals. Gain insights into the sustainability challenge and how global megatrends are shaping business strategy and will impact your marketplace now and into the future.

Determine the best ways to identify, understand and engage with your stakeholders and why this is vital to delivering a successful responsible business strategy. You will learn techniques for mapping the most relevant groups and about when to use the different methods of engagement.

Using a risk framework and an impact and likelihood assessment tool we will show you how to get responsible business issues onto your organisation’s risk register. This will ensure that they are getting attention at the highest levels. Additionally, we will demonstrate the tools for you to build an accurate materiality matrix for your organisation that considers the opinions of your stakeholders and an assessment of the impact of the issues on your organisational strategic objectives

Explore the best methods and tools to identify and measure impact, testing them out on your current activities or strategies. Examine the five key markers of good corporate governance, from transparency to rewards.

Examine how wellbeing, diversity and inclusion, environment and community impact strategies can gain power from being integrated. While it is unlikely that one person is responsible for creating all of these strategies, in this session you will identify ways that your organisation’s responsible business ambitions can be accelerated by an interconnected approach.

Learn how to gain traction for your company’s responsible business programme. This module was developed in conjunction with Cranfield University and will give you the tools you need to identify changes you want to make and drive the process from wherever you sit in the organisation.

Who should take part in this programme?

This programme will be of most benefit to people who:

work for an organisation that is part of BITC’s network of responsible businesses or is looking to join the movement
have a role in development and delivery of responsible business strategies or programmes
have an intermediate level of knowledge about some aspects of responsible business and are ambitious to develop their skills and desire to drive a best practice approach.

Invest in Your Success

Course Pricing

BITC Member

£4,200 + VAT

25% discount to the cost for a second participant or included as the core element of BITC membership

Non-Member

£4,725+ VAT

Individual Module

BITC members:

£950 + VAT

Non-members:

£1,000 + VAT

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Our 2025 Schedule

22 May

29 May

05 June

12 June

19 June

26 June

Book your place today

Join the growing network of professionals shaping the future of responsible business. Signing up for BITC’s Responsible Business Management Training is a step toward leading with purpose and driving real impact.