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Course Description

Advanced Multi-Party Negotiation of Environmental Disputes

Why take this training?

Effective multi-party negotiation & conflict management require the ability to enter into, build, and foster collaborative relationships among people involved in a dispute; a process that takes time to cultivate and maintain. Building relationships is essential to building trust. Trust is essential to successful group efforts and underlies effective joint implementation of agreements.

This highly interactive workshop develops confidence and skill in negotiating in the complex context of multiple parties by building a practical set of skills and tools that agency staff can use to work more effectively in interagency settings, with stakeholders and the public at large. Environmental, public lands and natural resources issues involve multiple interests and parties, as well as complex issues. This workshop helps new and experienced resource managers engaged in environmental decision-making become more effective in environmental conflict negotiation, prevention and management.

What will you learn?

This highly interactive workshop will help you apply the basics of Interest-Based Negotiation to more complex multi-party negotiation:

• Increase self-awareness of strengths and areas for improvement in communication, relationship-building, and multi-party negotiation
• Distinguish between two-party and the complexities of multi-party interest-based negotiation
• Unpack complex psychological, procedural, and substantive issues inherent in multi-party negotiations
• Improve communication survival skills to build enduring working relationships
• Understand phenomena associated with individuals’ varying perception of conflict, conflict styles, and group dynamics
• Build a practical set of skills and tools to work more effectively in complex interagency settings with a variety of governmental and non-governmental stakeholders
• More effectively prevent, manage and negotiate agreements to resolve environmental conflict in ways that satisfy the most needs and maximize the chances of sustainable solutions

Pre-requisites

Interest-Based Negotiation training (preferred, but not required)
Pre-course assignment (required)

Pre-Course Assignment

Interest-Based Negotiation – reading assignment
IBN.pdf

Course Length

2.5 days

Format

Instructor-led

Level

Advanced

Price

$1245

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