Module 5.3 will enhance students’ leadership skills through learning activities that focus on leadership skills, consultation and collaborative decision-making surrounding forest resource management issues. Key topics include organization and facilitation of decision-making processes, conflict resolution and negotiation skills to arrive at defensible positions when action is required.

Specific objectives are to enable participants to: Describe how social, cultural, and geographical differences apply to this topic; Facilitate collaborative decision-making; Apply conflict resolution skills; Organize a group to achieve a goal; and Defend a resulting plan of action.

Course Schedule:

This course involves a combination of recorded lectures, readings, assignments and participation in semi-synchronous online discussion forums and synchronous tutorials with instructors and other participants over an 8-week period

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