Publication date : 03/21/2024

Course : CSR communication: enhancing your company's image

Practical course - 2d - 14h00 - Ref. CSE
Price : 1410 € E.T.

CSR communication: enhancing your company's image



Required course

How to develop an effective CSR communications strategy? After discovering the challenges of this type of communication, you'll learn how to avoid the main pitfalls and implement the right approach and tools.


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Practical course in person or remote class
Available in English on request

Ref. CSE
  2d - 14h00
1410 € E.T.




How to develop an effective CSR communications strategy? After discovering the challenges of this type of communication, you'll learn how to avoid the main pitfalls and implement the right approach and tools.


Teaching objectives
At the end of the training, the participant will be able to:
Identify your role and limits in a CSR approach
Defining CSR communication objectives
Choosing the focus of your CSR communication
Selecting communication media

Intended audience
Communication managers and officers (companies, associations, NGOs, government agencies, local authorities, etc.).

Prerequisites
No special knowledge required.

Practical details
Case study
Case studies, experience sharing, group discussions.
Teaching methods
Active, participative teaching methods. Alternating theory/practice with application to the context and experience of participants.

Course schedule

1
Understanding the context of CSR and sustainable development (SD)

  • Definition and principles of SD, CSR and responsible communication.
  • Environmental awareness.
  • The influence of NGOs.
  • What are the consequences of this changing society for the company?
  • Why communicate on CSR?
Example
International benchmark.

2
Developing a responsible organization approach

  • What role does the communications department play in a CSR approach?
  • Knowledge of regulations and standards (ISO 26000, ISO 14001, ISO 20121).
  • Responsibility for message, medium and distribution.
  • Focus: how to avoid Greenwashing?
  • The 3 prerequisites and 3 steps method: message, support and control.
  • Organizational governance for a responsible communications strategy.
  • Assessment and control.
Exercise
Labels, product labels and claims... How do you recognize them? How do you perceive your company's CSR? What impact does it have in terms of communication? Diagnosis of practices.

3
Define your CSR communication objectives

  • What are the goals to be achieved? Analyze and define them.
  • Identify your stakeholders.
  • Build your positioning.
  • Choose coherent lines of communication.
  • More information, less dream.
Group discussion
Examples and discussion of good and bad practices.

4
Define what to communicate and on what media

  • Mobilize internal staff around the CSR approach.
  • Promote the company's commitment to its stakeholders, and its product and service offerings.
  • CSR content strategies On and Offline, the Web 2.0 opportunity.
  • Know the different elements of the CSR report.
  • Public relations: which angle of attack for which media? What distribution?
  • The case of CSR and sustainable development advertising.
  • Recommendations for eco-socially responsible media.
  • Lifecycle analysis tools. How to select partners and subcontractors for lasting relationships?
Case study
Case study based on participants' examples and communication actions resulting from the activity.


Customer reviews
4 / 5
Customer reviews are based on end-of-course evaluations. The score is calculated from all evaluations within the past year. Only reviews with a textual comment are displayed.
NATHALIE J.
11/09/25
4 / 5

Thank you for the links and examples of tools presented.
STÉPHANIE F.
11/09/25
4 / 5

Professional and attentive moderatorCould include business cases/examples of organisations with an effective CSR approach (or not)
AGATHE B.
11/09/25
3 / 5

As discussed, I was expecting more of a direct link with a communications strategy and concrete examples of things observed. The course is halfway between communication and CSR, so the roles are mixed. Some interesting things were mentioned but I wanted to go further on communication.



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REMOTE CLASS
2026 : 23 Mar., 15 June, 28 Sep., 23 Nov.

PARIS LA DÉFENSE
2026 : 15 June, 28 Sep., 23 Nov.