1.- Listening actively and effective thinking:
- Think Small First
- Think Energy Efficiency First
- Scale-up; spread where ever responsibly possible; make it big-make it happen
2.- Questioning and probing ideas and situations to ensure better energy efficiency understanding:
- Lowering emissions does not necessarily mean more competitiveness
- Higher energy efficiency cannot happen without productivity raises
- Energy costs savings does not guarantee process, services and products quality improvement
3.- Educating to increase team knowledge on energy efficiency so that they can be more effective:
- Energy efficency operating units in industrial areas
- Strengthening core competences in public bodies and agencies
- Educational and awareness social programs
4.- Fact finding to identify and confirm energy efficiency related information:
- What are current energy consumption patterns
- Find out what are the real energy demand needs
- Current roadblocks for energy efficiency solutions deployment
5.- Setting and managing expectations:
- Balancing short term wins and long term structuring
- Opening the path to qualified professionals in the stakeholders community
- Delivering a vision for the whole economic sectors as well as specific expected impacts
6.- Persuade a person a team or an organisation to perform an improvement action:
- Energy efficiency plays an holistic and multidimensional role
- From complex and investment intensive initiatives ranging to quick thought & found solutions, pushing accross the full range
- Everybody counts, everyone enjoys the benefits of energy efficiency
7.- Motivating to provide encouragement or reasurance for the break-through:
- Business-as-usual schemes probably deliver poorly at this stage, yet you need to know the current stage
- Whatever your future vision is you need to addapt your energy scenario in a flexible way, for that purpose energy efficiency is a strong catalyzer
- Sustainable initiatives; clean transport, a more resilient energy mix and social welfare are strongly connected to energy efficiency initiatives and positively influenced by them
8.- Coaching to improve performane and achieve results:
- Train your teams
- Educate people
- Pull and push from newcomers
- Make the best out of Maturity
9.- Negotiating to find mutually acceptable agreement between parties:
- Less energy consumption means energy and resources availability for further initiatives
- There is a continuos transition within the overall energy system that needs to be defined, explained and actively managed
- Trade offs between traditional and new market players tackled from a win-win-win perspective
10.- Resolving conflict to prevent disruptive impacts in the system:
- At the moment of releasing energy resources the number of conflicts ought to be reduced if properly managed
- Alternative uses for traditional energy sources and economic sectors must be clearly focused and targetted
- Emerging solutions need to be appropriately frame in existing processes with flexibility mechanisms
- Innovative approachs lie very much in the nearby of energy efficiency methodologies
11.- Summarizing, recapping and identifying next steps:
- Your energy system cannot imitate any other (it can only be inspired by others), it is intimately connected to the whole of your processes of activity
- Energy efficiency delivers in more resilient energy systems: more productive; with higher quality standards; safer, social and environmental friendly
- Energy efficiency related new products, services and technologies are to be fine tunned with existing processes and adequately embedded in the evolving social structure
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