Sustainability Competency & Opportunity Rating & Evaluation The SCORE sustainability assessment measures how well sustainability is integrated into your operations A powerful educational tool to help managers understand what sustainability means in their daily work

QuickLinks: What is SCORE • What's special about SCORE • SCORE assessment areas & sample items • How SCORE Works
• Licensed Assessors • Becoming Licensed • Pay for SCORE Report w/credit card

Becoming Licensed

Internal practitioners and sustainability consultants can both become licensed to use SCORE.

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"I'm very impressed with this course - didn't know distance learning could work so well." —Dawn Lesley, Kennedy Jenks

There are four ways to become licensed to implement SCORE:

• OPTION 1 — ATTEND A PUBLIC WORKSHOP On occasion, we offer public workshops. Contact us to be put on an invitation list. We offer both face-to-face one-day workshops (usually through associations who have a number of people who want the training) and a distance learning class that extends over one month (usually once a year).
• OPTION 2 — GROUP LICENSING. You can arrange for group training if you can pull together enough people for a class. This option is best when you have a number of people to train at one time.
• OPTION 3—PRIVATE CONSULTATION. In some cases, we are able to schedule a private training session.
• OPTION 4—SUBCONTRACT. If you have a client who wants SCORE, we can perform the work as a subcontractor and license you in the process.
• OPTION 5—SELF-STUDY. We are experimenting with having people go through the training on a self-study basis. This pilot should be done in March and we will evaluate its effectiveness then.

For option 1 and 2 above, the licensing fee is quite reasonable, now under $500, which you can easily earn back with your first SCORE client. Once you have completed the training, we will list you as a licensed SCORE assessor on the two SCORE websites (at the Zero Waste Alliance and also the creators of SCORE, AXIS Performance Advisors). Note that prospective assessors must possess a strong working knowledge of sustainability concepts and practices as this is necessary for proper use of SCORE.

We provide phone support to SCORE Licensees to help you be successful. This may include discussing how to implement SCORE in an unusual situation, explaining how to interpret SCORE items, or resolving difficulties with the files. We can also go with you the first time or two you use SCORE (although there is a fee for this service.) You will be provided updates and have input to future revisions. At our discretion, we will follow up with your SCORE clients to ensure quality control and will pass on any appropriate feedback or referrals.

Want to become a licensed SCORE assessor? Licensing is for internal sustainability professionals or external consultants, people already well-versed in sustainability concepts and practices. (Quick self-test—You should know what these abbreviations mean: GRI, TNS, ISO-14001, EMS, LEED, SA-8000). The class involves a weekly webinar and then a few hours of additional work each week for 4 weeks.

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Note: There is still a processing fee each time you administer SCORE as we (or our SCORE affiliates) analyze your data, benchmark your performance against other organizations, and produce a report. We plan to train affiliates in different parts of the world and perhaps in certain industry sectors so they can provide reports, recommendations and resources tailored to those areas.

"I recently conducted my first assessment.  It was great.  From a business standpoint, I more than made up for the training in the assessment fees to just one client alone, and I'm currently working on a proposal to help them follow through that could bring in thousands of dollars.  The results I got back from Darcy were super fast and the report was insightful and very useful in helping me frame the "next steps" part of my future contract.
 
 Besides the cash side, I'm really excited about SCORE.  Because of how it is structured it is easy to understand, and you get to "trick" clients into having a meaningful internal conversation about sustainability that probably wouldn't have happened on their own.  The hard data results are one thing (great metric to improve upon), but the energy and commitment that folks get from the process is the real value of SCORE.
 
 I would highly recommend SCORE to anyone who is serious about helping clients advance their sustainability goals.  Not only does it provide a benchmark of where they're at today, it is the catalyst for meaningful discussion about where they want to go tomorrow."

—Brad Baso, licensed SCORE assessor

For more information, contact Darcy Hitchcock.