CUSTOM IN-HOUSE TRAINING AND SUPPORT SERVICES FOR PUBLIC AGENCIES
NCI will work with you to determine the right level of training or support services to meet the needs of your project and budget. Whether it is the full weeklong NCI Charrette System™ and NCI Charrette Management and Facilitation™ certificate trainings at your organization, or a one-day project assessment and organization meeting, or ongoing coaching on your project, NCI can provide the right services to help you be a catalyst for collaborative community transformation.
Project Assessment and Organization
Do you have a high profile project that requires intense public involvement?
If so, perhaps a NCI facilitated one-and-a-half-day project assessment
and organizational meeting is the right thing for you. The meeting results
in a Charrette Ready Plan and Stakeholder Analysis that sets the strategy
for organizing the information and people for your project.
The Charrette
Ready Plan will identify the major activities required to prepare for the
charrette. These activities include stakeholder outreach, engagement and
education, base data collection and analysis and charrette logistics. The
Stakeholder Analysis will identify all major viewpoints, people and organizations
that need to be involved in the project. It will also identify their major
issues, wins and the strategies for their involvement in the project. NCI
can then coach you through the preparation and management of your charrette.
Contact us (by email or at 503-233-8486 x 2#) to schedule a call to discuss your unique project needs.
Technical Assistance and Coaching
Sometimes a little professional support on your project process is all you need. NCI will work cooperatively with your core project team on the execution of your Charrette Ready Plan to identify the major activities required to prepare for a charrette. We will help make sure that nothing is left to chance in your charrette preparation.NCI can coach you through your charrette preparation phase from base research through stakeholder outreach. We can provide agenda reviews and strategy consultations prior to key meetings. We can also discuss and assist in the planning of your outreach strategy.
Contact us (by email or at 503-233-8486 x 2#) to schedule a call to discuss your unique project needs.
NCI Charrette System™ and NCI Charrette Management and Facilitation™ Certificate Trainings
Do you want to develop the capacity for your staff to conduct charrettes? An in-house training may be the way to go. An in-house training is all about your organization’s needs, allowing you to train your staff while planning your projects. Given tight budgets, more and more agencies are opting to plan and manage their own charrettes. NCI customizes the training to include up to four of your projects as case studies, which is unique to the in-house trainings.You can educate your entire agency and partners about charrettes and provide in-depth charrette planning and management training for your staff. Many agencies opt to train their staff with an in-house 3-day NCI Charrette System™ Certificate Training and then send one or two people to a public NCI Charrette Management and Facilitation™ Certificate Training in Portland or D.C. Your key staff will learn about the necessary ingredients for a successful charrette and relate each strategy to their current projects. They will learn by doing, through a series of hands-on exercises in small teams, using your organization’s projects as case studies.
The NCI Charrette System™ Certificate Training begins with a comprehensive overview of the entire NCI Charrette System™ including a day-by-day account of the process and products of a recent charrette. This first half-day of the training can be made open to a larger audience to educate stakeholders and project partners about the NCI Charrette System™ and prepare them for upcoming local projects.
See detailed pages, including agendas, for the NCI Charrette System™ Certificate and NCI Charrette Management and Facilitation™ Certificate Trainings. Email us or call 503-233-8486 x 2# for pricing and availability. Download an in-house training flyer (PDF).