The Feedback from people we serve
"If you need to improve process management in a multi-stakeholder setting between government, private sector and NGOs, the Collective Leadership Institute offers a unique combination of theoretical background, practical knowledge and case work that helps to increase result-orientation in stakeholder dialogues."
Jürgen Koch, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, Thailand
"The workshop "Working with Stakeholder Dialogues" was most useful for reflection about approaches I apply within my work context as well as those of the various stakeholders I encounter and work with. Everyone who plans to register for this course I highly recommend to bring local partners and other main stakeholders from the specific project context along - through participating together in this training, they can reflect their work from different perspectives and thereby foster the mutual understanding for prevailing perspectives towards enhanced true collaboration - Everyone working in multi-stakeholder setting knows how much easier that can make our work."
Melanie Lutz, Advisor - Health, Nutrition and Population Sector Programme, GIZ Bangladesh
"Although I have a number of years of dialogue facilitation and training experience, this program took my awareness, skills and confidence to another level and improved my ability to take on great levels of complexity. The Collective Leadership Institute has brought together a spirit of inquiry, development and collaboration which honors the best of theory, application and network in ways which truly make a powerful difference to the challenges of sustainability."
David Bond, Rotterdam School of Management, The Netherlands
"There is currently no better team on the market that is so aware of the complexity of partnerships and offers an innovative approach as well."
Albrecht Graf von Hardenberg, Global Exchange for Sustainable Investment (GEXSI), Germany
"If you are skeptical about the effectiveness of "multi-stakeholder dialogues", you should attend the CLI-seminar. There you can learn about the conditions of success of multi-stakeholder dialogues and come to understand why many of the so-called stakeholder dialogues do not have any impact or even cause frustration for the participants. The dialogic approach as taught and practiced by the CLI, however, offers a promising way of engaging different people for a common goal. The CLI is not teaching just another facilitation course. Far from that! The Facilitating Multi-Stakeholder Dialogues seminar conveys a rich understanding on how to get different stakeholders into a dialogue that brings them to results that none of them could achieve on their own/requiring the contribution of all parties."
Annette Ruef, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology Forum, Switzerland
"In my opinion, and speaking for the public sector, I made tremendously important experiences and got to know instruments to understand how dialogic processes actually work or should do. This is something that is still missing in most of the public sector, but that would make things a lot easier and put an advantage to our work in the end. For this reason, I can only hope that as many people as possible become acquainted with this way of dialogue or process management and actually use it as well."
Andrea Muck, Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), Germany
"The importance of Multi-Stakeholder Dialogues consists of direct communication between different stakeholders with specific interests, but with same goals. The CLI facilitates in a professional way the preparation and implementation of this direct communication in the frame of MSDs."
Octavian Pernevan, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, Romania
