One of the fastest-acting and most cost-effective measures you can take to save energy is to motivate and educate staff and surveys show 60-80% of organisations are trying to do just that. Yours is probably one of them and maybe it is your job to make it happen.

However well you manage energy, however energy efficient your buildings and plant are, without the active involvement of staff at all levels valuable energy will be wasted – lights left on, windows and doors open, automatic controls over ridden. Good energy management is the job of every member of staff.

To achieve this it helps to know something about:

persuasion techniques
the psychology of the workplace
how to monitor results.

Why not spend a day improving your knowledge and skills with a small group of other like-minded people?

Topics covered

Establishing objectives for behavioural change
Finding out about current attitudes: questionnaires vs interviews
Communication: key principles
Institutional obstacles and opportunities
Coordination with other initiatives
What really motivates people?
Changing behaviours
Rewards (including the tax implications)
Unintended consequences
Training: identifying needs and running courses
Measuring the impact
Maintaining the impact
A role for top management

Format

You will receive two recommended textbooks in advance to read before the day. Workshop exercises and presentations will discuss specific ideas and insights provided by the books, and how they can be applied to the business of encouraging staff, contractors, and other target groups to work in a more energy-conscious way.

Your workshop co-leader, Vilnis Vesma MA CEng MEI

Widely recognised as a world class expert on M&T
Many years' experience of designing, installing, supporting and operating M&T schemes, and training users
Creator of spreadsheet-based tools for energy management
Presented first Energy Spreadsheet Masterclass in 1988
Supplied M&T tools and expertise to manufacturing industry, commercial and public sector organisations, for example: Aberystwyth University
Author of: Managing Energy with a Desktop Computer (1987), Energy Publications; the government advice booklet Fuel Efficiency Booklet 13: Waste Avoidance Measures (1995) and the Carbon Trust's CTG008: Monitoring and targeting (2008)
Specialist contributor on M&T to Croner's Energy Management and Gee Publishing's Energy Saver