NEW! IAP2 Hosted - Transforming P2 and Engagement Culture

This is a course about growing, influencing, and building a culture of P2/engagement inside an organisation, for more effective and meaningful P2/engagement practice.

Practitioners who work in and with organisations will learn to identify and assess the attributes of an engaging organisation and develop a plan to act as change agents to undertake transformational leadership to grow and expand P2/engagement culture.

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Course Objectives: 

By the end of this course participants will be able to:

• Discover and apply the practice and commitments of an engagement-centered organisation
• Identify the steps on the development continuum for a culture of engagement and assess organisation(s) against those steps
• Identify and apply the factors of meaningful engagement in organisational culture
• Explain the necessary components to build organisational competence
• Apply a range of models and tools to assess an organisation’s capability and culture of engagement
• Discover the practitioner’s role in leading culture change in communities and organisations and practice skills and knowledge
• Consider and reflect on strategies for building an engaging organisation
• Build a plan for working with others to transform engagement culture

Target Audience: 

• Practitioners with some public participation and engagement practice experience who are looking to cement their knowledge and skills

Course Delivery:

Online and hosted by IAP2 Canada.

Prerequisite:

Fundamentals of P2 and Engagement or IAP2 Way in Challenging Contexts is a prerequisite for this course. 

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Our Licensed Trainers:

Tannis Topolnisky, CP3 has eighteen years of public engagement experience and has been a licensed trainer of the IAP2 Foundations and IAP2 for Decision Makers courses since 2011. She has worked in a variety of areas such as legislation, policy and program development, health, contaminated sites, heritage conservation, municipal budgeting, land use planning, affordable housing, education and more. Tannis has diverse experience engaging communities, interest groups, non-government organizations, professional and industry associations, academics, patient groups and Indigenous peoples. She often finds herself planning and facilitating projects where there are potential impacts to health, livelihood, relationships, community and quality of life.