Faculty: Petra Kuenkel, David Bond

Tuition fee: € 1,480

Language: English

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Key Concepts and Competencies for Achieving Common goals

A skills development program for those who host, initiate and facilitate stakeholder engagement

Background
Well-structured Stakeholder Dialogues are increasingly used as an important tool for sustainable development initiatives, adaptation to climate change, strengthening economic development, social dialogue and efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Dialogue is often the right path to take to ensure that solutions are based on different perspectives and competencies.

Course outline
Our program "Working with Stakeholder Dialogues" is experience-based and focuses on understanding success factors in Stakeholder Dialogues. It also develops participant's competencies to assess the applicability of Stakeholder Dialogue approaches and enhances your skills to successfully initiate and implement such dialogue processes.

Your benefit
Our program "Working with Stakeholder Dialogues" is designed to help you build your strategic abilities and implementation skills in stakeholder engagement and dialogue. You will gain insights, exchange experiences, and build knowledge and facilitation skills to coordinate consensus-building stakeholder relationships, convene networks for high-impact solutions, and create the space for learning and collaboration with different stakeholders.

Methodological approach

• Conceptual inputs
• A needs based approach
• Self-assessment processes
• Action learning

Main objectives

• You will understand the concept of Stakeholder Dialogues and its function in societal change
• You will learn about the different forms of Stakeholder Dialogues and how to choose the right form
• You will understand the Dialogic Change Model as a pragmatic approach to successfully conducting Stakeholder Dialogues and can apply the model in their work
• You will learn how to communicate with different stakeholders within complex stakeholder settings
• You will understand when and how to monitor the quality of processes

Our professionals with international work experience and a great practical expertise on Stakeholder Dialogue processes will conduct the training courses.

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