Community Problem Solving and Collaboration

Resolving Public Disputes-Workshop II

Workshop II:  Collaboration and Tools for Handling Contentious Stakeholder Groups
This workshop is part two of a three-course sequence to improve individual negotiation skills and responses to conflict and to strengthen group facilitation, collaboration, and problem-solving abilities. This workshop examines the conditions for effective collaboration. Attendees practice meeting facilitation and apply negotiation skills to managing committees, stakeholder groups and task forces more effectively. The program includes an exercise of a simulated interagency collaboration. For more information.click here.

Attendees

Officials whose functions include any of the following: program planning or policy development; stakeholder input and support; interdepartmental, intergovernmental and/or government interaction with stakeholder representatives, and coordination of activities; including city and county managers, school district superintendents and administrators, state government agency leaders, top department officials, division and section directors, local government department directors, public information officers, regional planning and intergovernmental units, council of government directors and program managers, non-profit service providers under government contract, professional engineers and licensed surveyors, leaders of neighborhood groups and civic organizations, community and court mediators, and internal facilitators seeking public dispute understanding and practice

Duration

Two days

Prerequisites

Participation in Workshop I is helpful, but not required.

Certification

PDH for professional engineers and licensed surveyors.

Faculty
Coordinator

John B. Stephens

Cancellation
Policy

All cancellations must be submitted in writing, as outlined in the School's cancellation policy.