Planning and Facilitating Collaborative Meetings Workshop

This two-day (January 26-27, 2016) instructor-led course is designed to increase participants’ ability to plan and facilitate a meeting (or a series of meetings) that minimize conflict and enhance problem solving. Collaboration is often cited as a good way to address coastal resource management issues, but the collaborative process is complicated, requiring a systematic approach. This course provides the skills and tools to design and implement collaborative approaches. The skills will be useful even when attending, but not running, a collaborative meeting.

What You Will Learn

• Determine if a collaborative process is appropriate
• Select people with the skill sets needed to fill each meeting role
• Learn and practice facilitation skills
• Use appropriate process tools and techniques to address the meeting objectives
• Manage conflict in meetings by understanding group dynamics
• Identify disruptive behaviors in group processes and practice strategies to deal with them

 To Register go to http://www.gulfalliancetraining.org/detail.aspx?Id=107  Questions? Call Anita Grove at (850) 670-7708 or email Anita.Grove@dep.state.fl.us.