NCI Public Meeting Facilitation: Professional Skills and Techniques 1.5 Day Training

• Module Two of the NCI Public Meeting Facilitator™ Certificate Program

Just knowing how to plan a charrette and design a great plan may not be enough to assure a successful charrette. The complete charrette manager must know how to handle the most volatile public meetings. In just two days you will gain the lessons learned from some of the toughest charrettes and learn how so many potential problems can be defused by knowing how to properly set up and facilitate public meetings. You will finally be able to relax while conducting a large meeting, knowing that you have the most effective tools and preventions in place.

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Course Content:

Meeting planning:
• Meeting types: open houses, workshops, and forums
• Stakeholder analysis
• Decision making options
• Room arrangement and logistics
• Designing the agenda

Meeting facilitation:
• The theory and practice of facilitation
• The unique challenge of the charrette facilitator
• Techniques for dealing with difficult people: Rules of the microphone, dealing with determined obstructers, handling off-topic input
• Running hands-on workshops: Techniques for getting to shared values and vision quickly

Benefits:
	Decide what type of meeting is needed for a given situation
	Choose the right decision making process
	Plan and conduct the proper preparation to assure a successful meeting
	Learn how to handle the most difficult people

What you will be doing:
	You will learn by doing in a series of role-playing and hands-on exercises drawn from the most challenging real life situations as researched and tested by NCI.

Instructors:
Bill Lennertz, NCI’s Executive Director, will draw upon his experience from over 150 charrettes and hundreds of public meetings to teach participants important skills and techniques for meeting planning, preparation and facilitation.

Prerequisite:
There is a prerequisite requirement for all individuals wishing to attend "NCI Public Meeting Facilitation." The prerequisite can be satisfied by any one of the following:

	Introduction to NCI Dynamic Planning half-day (public or in-house)
	Previously offered "Charrettes 101" and "Dynamic Planning 101" one-day and half-day courses
	New Urbanism 202 on Charrettes at the 2003 CNU

Registration:
This two-day, intensive training is available in-house at your location. Please contact us for details and availability.

This course is accredited with the AIA for 9 continuing education system (CES) units and with the AICP for 6 certification maintenance (CM) credits.