Verité Lead Auditor Training: Advanced Assessment Skills

Our highly interactive five-day workshop (formerly RAISE 1500) builds on the experiences of participants to strengthen their skills in identifying, validating, analyzing and addressing workplace conditions. The course cuts across sectors and regions by focusing on how rather than what to look for in assessing management systems and performance gaps at the facility level. Learning objectives: ►Assess level of conformance to standards, ►Establish the direct causes of performance gaps, ►Understand and communicate steps needed to close gaps, ►Develop a corrective action plan.

EICC-GeSI Labor & Ethics Lead Auditor Training

This course will provide the knowledge and skills for lead social auditors to effectively conduct and report EICC/GeSI social audits. Please watch for updates and additional information. Register for a session here.

Analysis & Problem Solving: Lead Auditor as Change Agent

Our APS course introduces the knowledge and skills auditors need to help factory managers analyze performance gaps and their root causes and to identify solutions that are not only the right thing to do, but the best possible option given a factory’s unique business and social considerations. Learning objectives: ►Understanding and evaluating management systems, ►problem analysis, problem solving and decision making, ►performance improvement planning, implementing solutions and systems improvements and ►group facilitation skills.

Supplier Development: Assessing and Building Socially Responsible Management Systems

Traditional SR programs fall short of creating real change for factories and their workers if they are brand-driven, top-down, problem-finding, perceived as policing, reactive and costly. Verité’s Supplier Development course for lead auditors and factory management is designed to bridge these pitfalls by focusing on the need to: ►Understand how suppliers and factories operate and why problems happen ►Support suppliers in problem-solving ►Find solutions that are doable and durable ►Bring better alignment for better Code performance.

Buyers & Designers Courses on Socially Responsible Decision-Making

Designers, buyers, merchandisers and product/category managers are sensitized to the potential impacts of their decisions on working conditions in producing facilities. The modules draw on customized research into the life cycle of iconic brand products with the focus on risks to labor, ethics and environmental conditions and options for lessening negative impacts.

Red Flagging for Quality Assurance & Buyers

This workshop series deepens the understanding of QA, Procurement and other non-CSR staff of the company Code, high-risk workplace issues and models for identifying and reporting red flags. Participants develop a clear sense of the ways in which they, often as the “front line” of supply chain management, can support their company’s CSR program goals.

Social Responsibility and the Code of Conduct Orientation Seminars

Suppliers come to understand a brand’s Code standards and expectations proactively, before a potentially costly audit cycle begins. The course translates the Code into concrete benchmarks, common obstacles to compliance, how to self-assess and address gaps for a successful business partnership.

Code of Conduct: Issues-Focused Workshops

Our capacity-building workshops for management, supervisors and workers build on understanding of the Code to introduce specific knowledge and skills needed to address specific areas of concern identified in audits and to achieve social and environmental compliance standards on a sustainable basis. Topics include: Wages & Benefits, Overtime, Freedom of Association, Building a Positive Work Environment, Health & Safety

Analysis & Problem Solving For Factory Managers and CSR Staff

Our APS course introduces the knowledge and skills factory managers and internal CSR staff need to analyze performance gaps and their root causes and to identify solutions that are not only the right thing to do, but the best possible option given a factory’s unique business and social considerations. Learning objectives: ►Understanding and evaluating management systems, ►problem analysis, problem solving and decision making, ► performance improvement planning, implementing solutions and systems improvements and ►group facilitation skills.

Supplier Development for Factories: Assessing and Building Socially Responsible Management Systems

Traditional SR programs fall short of creating real change for factories and their workers if they are brand-driven, top-down, problem-finding, perceived as policing, reactive and costly. Verité’s Supplier Development workshops for factory management are designed to bridge these pitfalls by focusing on the need to: ►Understand how the enterprise operates and why problems happen ►Find solutions that are doable and durable ►Bring better alignment for better Code performance.

Performance Improvement Program

This program is a flexible and cost-effective assessment, consultation and capability building engagement based on a continuous improvement model. The customized nine- to twelve-month programs are designed to develop understanding of standards and effective management systems and build the analysis and problem solving skills to close compliance gaps and strengthen factory functions to maintain improvements over time.

Mobile Training Program: Worker Engagement for Social Responsibility

Verité’s Mobile Van program helps workers develop the understanding and skills to participate in improving labor protections in their workplaces. Each course series provides essential information, new perspectives and practical tools for personal and professional development. We’ve engaged 120,000 workers in the last decade on such topics as ►Code and labor law, ►avoiding injury, ►health and nutrition, ►personal finance, ►harassment, ►grievance systems, ►conflict, ►communication and ►leadership. In response to factory requests, we’ve added workshops for managers that complement and magnify the impact of our worker courses.

Training of Supplier Trainers: Vendor Ownership of Internal CSR Training

Verité helps Suppliers internalize their customer’s SR values by providing training on SR curriculum development and delivery for their employees. Our program also works with suppliers to strengthen the management systems of their internal training programs. We have run the course for groups of suppliers. Learning objectives: ►Building the technical capacity of trainers, designers and training program managers ►Introduce state-of-the-art SR training design, curriculum and methodologies ►Integrate customers’ Code into curriculum ►Best Action plan for next steps

Worker Participation in Problem Solving

Sustained change requires that workers be full partners in assessing, improving and maintaining just, legal and safe employment practices. We provide training and education programs that provide workers with the knowledge, skills and opportunities to become effective participants in positive change in the workplace. We provide technical training for management and workers and facilitate the creation of participatory structures and systems that integrate workers into facility monitoring. Training workshops include Code standards, communication, team building, conflict resolution, factory monitoring, reporting and problem solving.