JSW031 - Tools for Building Alliances
Tools for Building Alliances
Advancing economic and social policy requires effort to mobilize other people, organizations, and partners with different perspectives and needs. Leaders must secure a commitment to a mutual purpose and establish a strategy for achieving it. The most innovative public servants will tap into diverse perspectives to find new solutions. This workshop will offer an overview of the challenges leaders face in influencing change and mobilizing others to act. You will learn tactics, tools, and strategies for enhancing communication and problem solving to reach agreements. The session will be interactive and will include a number of exercises and role-play scenarios.
Delivery
Online curriculum and full day, in-person workshop
Core Competencies Explored
Connection & collaboration (engagement)
Course Outline
This course will explore the following topics:
- Challenges and policy implications
- Implications
- Tips & Tools for Building Alliances
- Communication
- Building an Organizational Community
- Exercise: Narrative Arc
- Strategic Orientation
- Exercise: Identifying Interests
Learner Outcomes
By the end of this workshop, you will be able to:
- analyze a policy problem and set goals;
- identify the competencies that will enable you to build alliances with a mutual purpose;
- utilize tools and tactics to shape mutually-satisfactory strategies;
- recognize opportunities in your daily work to further develop and enhance your communication skills; and,
- design and implement strategies so you can build alliances in your everyday work.
Applies Towards the Following Certificates
- Public Sector Workshop Series Certificate of Completion : Applicable Courses