Do you struggle to effectively connect with people across a wide spectrum of stakeholders?  Is your agency endorsing collaboration as a public involvement strategy, but finding it difficult to implement?  This track explores the opportunities and challenges inherent in collaborative processes.  You’ll be exposed to a variety of public involvement techniques and will practice choosing the right public involvement tools for your situation.  Expand your skills in framing and analyzing issues to determine goals, key players, and strategies for involvement.  Prework:  Bring an issue from your current work setting for a hands-on and project-oriented approach to learning.

This session takes a roll up your sleeves approach to provide participants with a greater understanding of what collaborative public involvement is, and isn’t.  Participants are engaged throughout the session with individual assignments, small and large group discussion, simulations, videos, and role playing.  Short facilitator presentations provide exposure to a large variety of tools and techniques that will assist you in developing a collaborative process that will work for your situation.  You will gain the most from this track if you bring an issue or project that needs a collaborative process developed so you can apply the content of the session to your needs.  

This session will cover:

v     The Cispus Definition of Collaboration

v     Where issues fall along the Public Participation Spectrum

v     Core Values necessary to make better decisions reflecting the interests of the public

v     The Keys to Successful Collaboration and the Limitations

v     Recognizing the tools that will work for you in the Public Participation Toolbox

v     The Planning Survival Guide, examining what causes good and bad decisions

v     Strategic Analysis Worksheet which helps identify key information you need to plan and execute a collaborative process

v     The difference between reaching Consent vs. Consensus

v     The Public Meeting Survival Guide, designed to lower the risk and raise the probability of success at your next public meeting

v     How to develop a public outreach plan using A Field Guide to Outreach

v     And much more!

Successful Teams   Meetings Management    Collaborative Public Involvement  Facilitative Skills and Techniques Group Decision Making Skills and Techniques
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