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Enhanced Skills in Natural Resource Negotiation

This training course presents participants with advanced principles, skills, and techniques used in natural resource negotiation. The focus of the course is threefold: 1) strategy development, 2) personal skill enhancement, and 3) effective management of negotiating teams. Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to: Apply negotiation strategies to a variety of natural resource […]

Interest-Based Problem Solving

What is the difference between positions and interests? Positions are typically publicly stated outcomes that someone seeks and may be fairly extreme or absolute. Interests, by contrast, are reasons behind the positions, are initially not openly expressed, and may be far more nuanced than positions. Moving a dialogue beyond merely exchanging positions and into the […]

Negotiation Skills for Natural Resource Professionals: Building a Foundation

This online course will  help build knowledge and skills required to engage in negotiation processes with a diverse set of stakeholders. Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to: Identify and characterize a natural resource negotiation and compare natural resource negotiation with other types of negotiation. Identify and characterize the different mechanisms available […]