Collaboration Skills for Environmental Professionals

401: Collaboration Skills for Environmental Professionals

Why take this training?

To work more effectively and efficiently, federal agencies and others recognize the need to develop collaboration competencies at all levels. This training facilitates staff in acquiring advanced skills in collaboration; multi-party negotiation; conflict prevention, management and resolution; meeting facilitation; and alternative dispute resolution.

What will you learn?

This workshop will help participants:

Foster productive working relationships
Analyze diverse viewpoints
Develop comfort in communicating effectively with people at all levels
Use team building to achieve 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

101: Introduction to Managing Environmental Conflict (recommended, but not required)
110: Negotiating Environmental Solutions (recommended, but not required)
301: Facilitation Fundamentals (recommended, but not required)

Pre-Course Assignment

Collaborative Capabilities - reading assignment
CollaborativeCapabilities.pdf

Speaker and Presenter Information

Joan Calcagno joined the Institute's staff in September 1999 as the manager of the Roster of ECR Practitioners, which included assisting people seeking to engage a neutral dispute resolution professional by providing referrals and advice regarding the process of selecting an appropriate neutral. She also participated as part of the Native Dispute Resolution Network team. Currently, Joan�s ECR project development and management work focuses on collaborative problem-solving and dispute resolution processes involving transportation planning and project development, as well as transportation agency/tribal consultation issues and agreements. Projects span specific conflict resolution cases, inter-agency and multi-stakeholder workshops, and collaboration skill-building. Joan provides mediation and facilitation services as needed on a variety of projects. Joan is part of the Institute�s training team and is the lead trainer for Introduction to Managing ECR and co-leads other Institute trainings. Before joining the U.S. Institute's staff, Joan was a professional mediator and trainer. She served on the board of directors of the Arizona Dispute Resolution Association, chaired its membership committee, and served on the credentialing committee. She was also an Adjunct Assistant Professor in mediation and public policy conflict resolution at the University of Arizona and its law school, Settlement Judge Pro Tem, arbitrator, and administrative law judge and co-hosted a local call-in radio program "What's Your Problem?: Creative Conflict Resolution." She practiced law for eleven years before beginning her mediation/ADR career. Joan has a broad range of other work and life experience, including retail business and community organizing as a VISTA volunteer.

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