Resolving Public Disputes - 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, visit www.ncpdr.unc.edu.
Attendees
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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
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2 days |
Prerequisites
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Participation in Workshop I is helpful, but not required |
Certification |
PDH for professional engineers and licensed surveyors |
Faculty Coordinator
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John B.
Stephens |
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