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Your team is divided on sustainable packaging choices. How can you unite everyone towards a common goal?

When your team is at odds over sustainable packaging, focus on aligning values and goals. To navigate this challenge:

- Host a workshop to discuss the benefits and drawbacks of various options, ensuring everyone's perspective is heard.

- Set clear sustainability targets that align with your company's values and mission, creating a unified direction.

- Encourage open dialogue and regular feedback sessions to monitor progress and adapt strategies as needed.

How have you successfully united a divided team? Share your strategies.

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Your team is divided on sustainable packaging choices. How can you unite everyone towards a common goal?

When your team is at odds over sustainable packaging, focus on aligning values and goals. To navigate this challenge:

- Host a workshop to discuss the benefits and drawbacks of various options, ensuring everyone's perspective is heard.

- Set clear sustainability targets that align with your company's values and mission, creating a unified direction.

- Encourage open dialogue and regular feedback sessions to monitor progress and adapt strategies as needed.

How have you successfully united a divided team? Share your strategies.

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    Aasim Hameed Khan عاصم حميد خان

    Sustainability Leadership | ESG Strategy | Carbon Reduction | Net Zero | Circular Economy | Climate Action | Regenerative Tourism | Destination Stewardship | Smart Assets | Systemic Thinking | Scalable Impact

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    When your team is at odds over sustainable packaging, focus on aligning values and goals by clarifying the shared commitment to reducing environmental impact. Foster open communication, allowing all perspectives to be heard, and use data on cost, environmental effects, and customer preferences to guide decisions. Encourage collaborative brainstorming to find innovative, practical solutions, and implement pilot projects to test and refine approaches. Most importantly, lead with a unified vision, ensuring all decisions align with the company’s long-term sustainability objectives. As Henry Ford said, “Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.”

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    Yubraj Banjade

    Environmental and Social Safeguard | Environmental Assessment | Social Impact Assessment | Disaster Risk Reduction | Climate Change Aadaptation

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    Uniting a divided team on sustainable packaging requires aligning on shared values, using data-driven insights, fostering cross-functional collaboration, and embracing innovation to find solutions that balance sustainability, cost, and functionality.

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    Roberta Pinheiro ॐ

    Analista Projetos & Processos Sr I PMO I Product Owner I com foco em melhoria contínua e inovação das esteiras Operacionais. 🥇 ✓Green Belt ✓LACP (agilista) ✓Metodologias Ágeis ✓Lider Kaizen ✓Scrum Master ✓Product Owner

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    O primeiro passo é partir das explicações básicas de onde estamos e onde queremos chegar, demonstrar que os valores dessas embalagens, tanto para a sociedade como para si próprio. As vezes a equipe fica dividida por falta de comunicação e entendimento do basico

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    Lucas Lanzoni

    CEO e Founder ALMA Verde Soluções em Sustentabilidade @avssambiental ♻️ | Energia Solar | Sustentabilidade | Eficiência Energética | Serviços Ambientais | Consultoria Estratégica

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    In Brazil, reverse logistics legislation allows compliance with environmental obligations without the need to modify production processes or packaging composition. By investing in initiatives that strengthen the recycling chain—such as purchasing reverse logistics credits, partnering with managing entities, and supporting waste picker cooperatives—I can ensure legal compliance while promoting a positive social and environmental impact. This approach allows me to maintain the current operational model while reinforcing my commitment to sustainability. In addition to meeting legal requirements, this initiative aligns with the principles of sustainability, such as shared responsibility and the circular economy.

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    Dr Prachi Jain

    Advocate Intern 🇮🇳🇮🇳 II PhD II Speaker II Strategist II Advisor II Sustainability subject matter expert

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    To unite your team around sustainable packaging, it's crucial to establish a clear roadmap with measurable goals. Define specific, achievable targets, such as reducing plastic use by 30% within the next year or transitioning to 100% recyclable packaging by a set date. Furthermore, these larger goals can be broken down into smaller milestones, like switching to compostable mailers or eliminating single-use plastic in product packaging. Track progress regularly using key performance indicators (KPIs) and share updates to keep everyone motivated and aligned. When the entire team understands the "what," "why," and "how" of the sustainability journey, it becomes easier to work together towards a common, impactful goal.

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    Alain Maroun

    On a mission to help 10,000 people implement sustainable practices | Sustainability Consultant | Aviation Specialist | Engineering Innovator

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    Aligning a team on sustainable packaging requires clear goals and collaboration. I’ve found that hosting open discussions where everyone can voice concerns helps create shared understanding. In one project, we set sustainability targets tied to both environmental impact and cost efficiency, which gained broader support. Regular check-ins kept us on track, and small wins built momentum. By focusing on common values, we turned division into a collective drive for better solutions.

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    Sachin Sharma

    ESG Enthusiast | ♻️ ESG & Corporate Sustainability | ♻️ CSR | 🏅 Top Corporate Sustainability Voice | 🏅 Sustainability Consulting | 🌏 Climate Action | ⏳ Lead Generation | Marketing & Sales | Communications Strategist |

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    Aligning your team on sustainable packaging starts with open dialogue and shared goals! 🌱📦 Host discussions, set clear targets, and encourage collaboration to drive meaningful change. How do you navigate sustainability challenges? #Sustainability #ESG #GreenPackaging #Collaboration

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    Aravindha Sekar Loganathan

    Environmental Specialist🌱 | Winner of Engineering Excellence Awards 2024 | Founder of @BirdboxDrones

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    To unite my team on sustainable packaging choices, I would first facilitate an open discussion to understand each person's concerns and preferences. By fostering a collaborative environment, I can help identify common goals and shared values, such as reducing environmental impact and enhancing brand reputation. I’d present data and case studies to demonstrate the long-term benefits of sustainable packaging, highlighting cost savings, consumer demand, and regulatory advantages. By focusing on the bigger picture and aligning everyone’s efforts with the company’s sustainability vision, I can guide the team towards a unified, informed decision that benefits both the organization and the environment.

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    Ricardo Chang

    Strategic Business Manager│Business Development │Sales & Commercial │ B2B & B2C │ Disruptive Innovator

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    Para unificar al equipo en torno a envases sostenibles: - Definir un objetivo claro que refleje valores y metas comunes. - Fomentar el diálogo abierto para escuchar todas las perspectivas. - Presentar datos y beneficios ambientales y comerciales. - Explorar opciones intermedias que integren distintos puntos de vista. - Realizar pruebas y evaluaciones para comparar impacto y viabilidad. - Crear un plan de acción conjunto basado en consenso.

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    Arvid Pedersen

    Vice Chairman | Passionate about creating wealth responsibly | Supporting businesses that achieve above market rate returns whilst delivering positively on the environmental and social aspects

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    To unite a team divided on sustainable packaging choices, you can: facilitate open communication, educate everyone on the latest research and options, involve the team in decision-making, highlight the business benefits of sustainability, and set clear, achievable goals with measurable metrics to track progress; this will help build consensus and align everyone towards a shared vision for sustainable packaging practices

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