Few business executives have the time and mental bandwidth to learn the intricacies of sustainability and corporate reporting in addition to their specific executive responsibilities.
We take the time to understand your business, its prospects and where you need it to go.
The Corporate Reporters (TCR) can then customise introductory or intense sustainability training coaching to take your executive and key individuals into uncovering your business journey and the reporting story that should accompany it.
This may be a testing and uncomfortable experience for new entrants into sustainability, but TCR is well-equipped to guide you through the unfamiliar early stages of this journey.
You really have no choice – the future is upon us – but astute leadership, courage and embracing change will bring you and your organisation through to your true north.
While we specialise in writing the content for annual, integrated and sustainability / ESG reports, our master wordsmiths can also breathe life into any of your corporate reports or bids and tenders. We also provide training, coaching and workshops to determine materiality, promote integrated thinking and instil ESG principles.
We are industry agnostic, having experience with top names in banking, hospitality, mining, and telecommunications, to name but a few.
Our approach to your integrated or ESG report depends on whether it has been published for years, or you are in the starting stages of your reporting journey.
Most corporate reporting projects have several clear phases and elements: the brief; discovery; strategy and theming; information gathering/collation; writing/editing; design and production.
We work with tried and tested specialists in each phase/element to produce reports you can stake your reputation on.
A typical reporting process will include the following:
Prior reports, presentations and company material
Stakeholder and analyst feedback
Competitor and industry reports
Media commentary
Current best reporting practices
In terms of the above, identifying reporting shortcomings and potential improvements, based on international frameworks and standards
Identify the company’s issues and gaps relating to ESG and sustainability reporting
Coach and guide, as necessary. This should include taking the board, executive and involved personnel through a process of addressing gaps, identifying opportunities and placing sustainability at the core of strategy
Propose new reporting angles and content
Establish the reporting path and theme to be followed
Identify material matters to be included in laser focused reporting
Engage with senior leadership around unpacking these important messages
Strategise on providing better – not more – reporting!
Establish the overarching reporting and messaging themes
Finalise the report logic flow and establish procedures for collaboration and gathering content
Evaluate material issues and sustainability disclosures to identify shortcomings and missing data
Circulate, track and collate questionnaires for divisional and sustainability reviews
Visualise infographics and graphical elements
Develop questionnaires for key personnel
Conduct in-person or online interviews
Craft leadership messages crafted to tell the company’s real story and avoid repetition
Deliver a compelling report on the activities and prospects of the business, a forward-looking perspective that lays out the analysis for readers.
Mustek’s reporting partnership with Clive Lotter over the past 15 years consistently delivers the goods in showing how the group is evolving as South Africa’s most recognised IT brand and distributor. His innovation and capacity to take our reports to the next level year-on-year is an influential contributor to our successful reporting.essentially had to be written and produced from scratch.
Although not yet listed, Lenmed took the decision four years ago to raise our shareholder and corporate governance reporting to best practice levels. Clive Lotter and his team have guided us through a reporting journey that is helping shape our growing healthcare group as well as keeping our key stakeholders well informed. Experts in their field, we have fostered a thoroughly beneficial working relationship with them. His attention to detail and going the extra mile to understand the complexities and matters affecting the healthcare industry and our group in particular has meant that the add-value we have obtained from Clive has been much more than we anticipated when we started working with him. Importantly, he is deadline driven and prepared to work the extra hours to complete the assignment on time and at the quality demanded of him.
Earlier this year I was tasked with producing an updated Social Impact Report for MultiChoice. Due to immovable deadlines, my project team had precious little time to create this new report which essentially had to be written and produced from scratch. My writing team - The Corporate Reporters - took to this challenge with energy, speed and logic, setting up a process that enabled writing and design to proceed in parallel, while meeting the exceptional standards that MultiChoice requires from its service providers. The Corporate Reporters wrote exactly the narrative we needed while resolving issues with our previous social impact report. Their content slotted perfectly into the design and our MultiChoice Social Report was produced within an exceptionally tight deadline. I look forward to my next project with Clive and Nalene - I’m confident in their ability to deliver exceptional work when the going gets tough.
Mustek’s reporting partnership with Clive Lotter over the past 15 years consistently delivers the goods in showing how the group is evolving as South Africa’s most recognised IT brand and distributor. His innovation and capacity to take our reports to the next level year-on-year is an influential contributor to our successful reporting.essentially had to be written and produced from scratch.
Although not yet listed, Lenmed took the decision four years ago to raise our shareholder and corporate governance reporting to best practice levels. Clive Lotter and his team have guided us through a reporting journey that is helping shape our growing healthcare group as well as keeping our key stakeholders well informed. Experts in their field, we have fostered a thoroughly beneficial working relationship with them. His attention to detail and going the extra mile to understand the complexities and matters affecting the healthcare industry and our group in particular has meant that the add-value we have obtained from Clive has been much more than we anticipated when we started working with him. Importantly, he is deadline driven and prepared to work the extra hours to complete the assignment on time and at the quality demanded of him.
