Collaboration Skills for Environmental Leaders

501: Collaboration Skills for Environmental Leaders

Why take this training?

To work more effectively and efficiently, governmental agencies and other stakeholders recognize the need to develop collaboration skills at all levels. This course examines the knowledge, skills, attitudes and behaviors of highly effective individual collaborators and organizational and team leadership supporting collaborative efforts. Goals of this course include developing essential skills in communication, collaboration, negotiation, and conflict management of environmental and natural resource issues.

What will you learn?

This workshop will help participants:

Foster productive working relationships
Analyze diverse viewpoints
Communicate more effectively with people at all levels
Participate in collaborative solutions
Know when and how to use conflict management strategies, negotiation, and mediation tools to achieve results
Use stakeholder input for more sustainable results
Engage in effective alternative dispute resolution
Think creatively and strategically to innovate solutions
Manage conflict in a positive and constructive manner

Pre-requisites

All lower level training and/or leadership experience in environmental and natural resource issues

Pre-Course Assignment

Read "Getting to Yes" by Roger Fisher & William Ury

Speaker and Presenter Information

Cherie Shanteau-Wheeler is the Director of Programs for the U.S. Institute for Environmental Conflict Resolution. She is an attorney, mediator/facilitator, and her responsibilities at the U.S. Institute include collaborative process management, mediation and facilitation services, ADR and negotiation training relating to attorneys, the Courts, the Department of Justice and Attorneys General, and the corporate sector. Her areas of subject matter expertise include property and real estate law, environmental law, Superfund, Western public lands, wilderness issues, grazing and endangered species. She joined the U.S. Institute in June of 2001. Before joining the U.S. Institute, Cherie spent more than 17 years in private practice, including two and one-half years as in-house legal counsel and the Dispute Resolution Manager for a Fortune 500 company. She has successfully mediated numerous litigated and non-litigated matters, represented clients in mediation, and facilitated several large public disputes, including, Utah BLM Wilderness designation, a temporary siting of a high-level radioactive waste facility, and complex watershed and riparian management issues. Cherie is on the mediation panels of the American Arbitration Association, U.S. Federal District Court for the District of Utah, Utah State Courts Mediation Program and the U.S. Postal Service. She has taught mediation, negotiation, conflict resolution and communication skills to judges, lawyers, law students, and other individuals, corporations and organizations in the United States and Europe. Cherie received a B.S. in Anthropology from the University of Utah and a Juris Doctor degree from the University of San Francisco School of Law. She was admitted to the Utah State Bar in 1984. She is a member of the Association for Conflict Resolution, and the Association for Psychological Type. She is qualified to administer the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator�.

Expected Number of Attendees

Relevant Government Agencies

Air Force, Army, Navy & Marine Corps, DOD & Military, Dept of Agriculture, Dept of Commerce, Dept of Energy, Dept of Homeland Security, Dept of Housing & Urban Development, Dept of the Interior, Dept of Transportation, Dept of Veterans Affairs, EPA, State Government, County Government, City Government, Municipal Government, FEMA, Coast Guard, Environmental, Natural Resources, Leadership, ECR