Introduction to Community Engagement Planning

Course details

Taking time to plan your approach to Community Engagement and research your stakeholders is often the difference between a successful engagement experience or finding yourself with angry, frustrated stakeholders and project delays.

Why not give your career a competitive edge by investing in Community and Stakeholder Engagement training? 

Community Engagement is an emerging area, and it's not going anywhere, it is time to improve your skills so you can position yourself as an innovator and leader.

This course will help you lay the groundwork for more successful engagement experiences with community and stakeholders.  You don't need to be a community engagement specialist - these skills can be incorporated into the toolkit and applied to your current role and projects. 

This course will lead you through: 

• The mindset you should practice when working with your stakeholders.
• How to identify who your 'community' and 'stakeholders' actually are - to do this we'll look at how to analyse your stakeholder to apply the right approach. This includes how to lead your own stakeholder analysis session with other people on your team.
• What good engagement looks like as part of a project life-cycle.
• The elements you need to work through to plan a successful engagement approach.

Target Audience:

People who are expected to undertake community and stakeholder engagement tasks as part of their current role and/or projects but haven't had the opportunity to get practical training to help them.

• Engineers
• Project Managers 
• Policy Makers
• Site Operators (mining, construction, landfill, industry)
• Staff Managers and Leaders