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workshop II
Collaboration and Tools for Handling
Contentious
Stakeholder Groups
This two-day workshop examines the conditions
for effective collaboration, provides practice
in public meeting facilitation, and prepares participants
to apply negotiation skills effectively to the
management of committees and task forces. The
workshop also includes a simulation exercise of
an interagency collaboration.
Workshop objectives:
- Acquire ability to use advanced methods of assessing
the opportunities and limitations of collaborative
approaches for addressing public issues
- Learn to enhance problem-solving by moving discussion
from disputants' initial positions and demands
to their underlying interests
- Become proficient at reframing disputants' needs
in terms of potentially shared or compatible underlying
interests
- Understand how to design problem-solving and
public dispute resolution processes appropriate
for the size of the group, complexity of the issue,
and the timeline for completion
- Learn when a government official can and cannot
act as a mediator or facilitator
- Analyze case studies of public dispute mediation
and facilitation of stakeholder groups
- Apply a checklist for selecting a mediator or
facilitator for a public dispute
Workshop II participants must have a basic
knowledge of interest-based negotiation and
analyzing conflicts in terms of stakeholders,
issues, resources, positions and interests.
If participants have not completed Workshop
I, recommended readings and a brief self-assessment
survey will be distributed in advance.
Participants who have taken or registered for
Workshop I will be given preference if Workshop
II sessions are oversubscribed.
John Stephens' Guidebook to Public Dispute
Resolution in North Carolina is included
in the registration fee for Workshop II.
Workshop II: Dates and Locations
Collaboration and Tools for Handling Contentious
Stakeholder Groups
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