This two-day 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.
After completing this course, participants will be able to:
• 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
Blaik Pulley Keppler, Reserve Manager
Phone: (843) 953-9024
kepplerb@dnr.sc.gov