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The second National Sustainability Conference (NSC) in Singapore took place from 29 to 30 July this year. Entitled “Environmental Up-Skilling and the Green Collar Economy”, the conference was co-organised by the Office of Environmental Sustainability (OES), NUS and the Workplace Research Centre, University of Sydney. It brought together policymakers, academics and members of the industry to explore key themes such as sustainable strategies to be pursued for Singapore and the Asia-Pacific, and the attendant implications that these strategies have on businesses in the environmental economy in terms of operations, management and hiring principles.

Nicholas Wyman, Chief Executive of WPC Group and Greenskills presented on how Green Apprenticeships integrate with Workforce Development. He covered how ?understanding the drivers and motivators of the next generation of employees and harnessing their interest in a sustainable economy is driving change through organizations.
Critical to an organisations success will be the ability to align the workforce to current and future service demands. Through the unique mentored apprenticeship model, employers can harness this engagement toward productivity.

Further information regarding the National Sustainability Conference 2010 is available to download.

Congatulations to Sensis and Connie Barbagallo for winning the ‘Greenskills for Sustainability’ Best Employee and Employer Green Initiative Award. The employer and employee Initiative was the successful launch of a book  on sustainable growth and how successful it was to engage a Trainee in the project from concept to implementation.       

Connie worked closely with her employer distributing the book ‘Small Business, Big Opportunity’.

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Congratulations to Sarah Derks for winning the GreenSkills Trainee of the Year! Sarah’s can do attitude, commitment and an all round sense of humor are just some of the characteristics to best describe her.

Sarah came to join WPC Group on the 27th of January where she commenced a traineeship in customer contact with her Host Employer VISY Recycling. Sarah was quick to convey her abilities in applying herself to any task at hand and committing herself 100% to both her position and studies. Her supervisor, Kate Cosford VISY Recycling’s Victorian Customer Service Manager, describes her as “an individual who provides the ultimate service for our customers and we are very proud to have her representing VISY Recycling”.

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At my first Group Training National Conference, I was delighted to be invited to chair a session titled ‘Greening Group Training’.Many organisations are interested in how they can become more sustainable and I was pleased to see Group Training Australia (GTA) demonstrating leadership by featuring a session on how group training organizations (GTOs) are responding to the needs of industry and apprentices, and also incorporating sustainability policies and practices into their own businesses.

The panel session featured excellent examples of leadership in fostering skills for sustainability and introducing sustainable business policies and practices across a range of metropolitan, regional and remote GTOs. It featured WPC Group (Nicholas Wyman), Central West Group Apprentices (Ben Bardon) and Group Training Northern Territory (Mike Harrison).

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