Becoming a B Corp – The Nuts and Bolts

Keep the team small

We typically love to get our whole team involved in something cool and exciting, but in this instance, more isn’t better. The B Corp process is full of cumbersome, nitty gritty details. You need a small, core team that should include at least one of the following; your organizational guru, financial person, human resources keeper, and your shareholders/owners. We saw the core benefits of becoming a B Corp early on as a team, but the average employee isn’t interested in crafting a Whistleblower policy or Babies in the Workplace policy. You’ll need everyone’s input and buy in, but a small group will be needed to make the decisions along with B Lab’s resources. Once you have the framework in place, then it’s time to share what it takes to get your company to 80 points and get full-team buy in. Trust us, all B Corp guidelines are powerful and impactful to overall health of your company. Your team won’t have a problem with any of them!

Just cause you say it doesn’t make it so

We’ve kinda sorta lived a B Corp life as a company since the beginning, but not consistently and not chiseled in stone. B Corp is all about proving you mean what you say. It’s not enough to say you value your employees. You have to prove it with thorough documentation of the benefits provided and a employee handbook anyone can read and immediately see why your a B Corp. Going forward the focus will be on being open to additional ways to add processes that support sustainability, local focus, mindfulness at work and inclusivity. Saying it out loud, proving it everyday to your employees and then providing metrics back to B Corp on an annual basis keeps everyone honest and innovative. B Labs have devised a smart process for keeping us accountable to our employees, other B Corps and to the world.

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*Big thank you to Amy Taylor for helping put this post together.

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Becoming a B Corp – The Nuts and Bolts