Programme description
Recipients have successfully completed the ‘Climate Pathway Two: Catalysing Change through Climate Conversations’, a 90-minute online Executive Education Programme developed in partnership between the University of Edinburgh Business School and NatWest Group. The learning consists of six modules including micro-lectures from University of Edinburgh faculty members, case studies (from NatWest Group subject matter experts, customers and external speakers) and further resources to support colleagues with putting the learning into practice.
Participants undertaking the 'Catalysing Change through Climate Conversations' Pathway can expect to learn:
- Explore and locate the importance of NWG in achieving change to address the climate crisis.
- Be able to identify how you can use your influence to achieve change, and align this with what concerns you and what you can control.
- Recognise the importance of preparation for climate conversations, and break this down into specific baselines.
- Be able to reframe climate to alternative framings for specific audiences and overcome common objectives.
- Appreciate different techniques of persuasion and how these can be used to catalyse change.
Earning criteria
This non-credit bearing online Executive Education Programme is completed in self-study over the course of 90 minutes. In order to receive a digital badge, participants are expected to have completed all of the Pathway's modules, including working through the pre-recorded lectures and reflection tasks. In order to access the digital badge, participants have to complete a mandatory post-programme survey. There are no graded assignments in this Programme, instead, reflective prompts are given so participants can consider what they have learnt in each module and how to put this learning into practice.
