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Leading Sustainable Community Transformation

The ability to engage stakeholders is an increasingly important competency that requires tact, strategy, collaboration, and high quality communication skills. Solving complex problems effectively, appropriately, and in a timely manner requires a major shift in mindset, moving away from siloed, discipline-specific methods.The three courses in this specialization are designed to provide a foundation for approaching complex problems, engaging with stakeholders, and providing tools to collect and analyze data to solve community transformation challenges holistically.

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Three courses

Developing a Systems Mindset

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A Systems Mindset teaches learners how to interact effectively with communities and stakeholders to engage complex problems. This course provides the basic foundations for professionals to approach problems from different angles, scales, and perspectives. Students will learn how to use a systems mindset to understand scaled systems, nested hierarchies, and the interactions between social and environmental systems.

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Strategies for Effective Engagement

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Being a successful professional requires creative, innovative, and entrepreneurial thinking, and to continually have a problem-solving mindset. As a systems thinker, you are expected to engage complex problems from multiple perspectives and different angles, viewing them holistically. This course exposes the student to a variety of tools used to engage stakeholders, collect data, and more deeply understand the community.

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Transforming Communities

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This course focuses on communities and organizations in transition. We will discuss sustainability and resilience, and the essentials of being a change maker. We will go over asset mapping and needs assessments, and use a systems-based approach to change.

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Learning objectives

Learners will master techniques to collect data that can be used to inform your work and stakeholder interaction.
Learners will know how to develop a practical, place-based strategy for stakeholder engagement.

Learners will apply systems thinking for project management.
Learners will be able to explain how to build rapport and trust with stakeholders and how to work as a consultant in a team environment.

Learners will master techniques to collect data that can be used to inform your work and stakeholder interaction.
Learners will know how to develop a practical, place-based strategy for stakeholder engagement.
Learners will apply systems thinking for project management.
Learners will be able to explain how to build rapport and trust with stakeholders and how to work as a consultant in a team environment.

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Time

27 hours

Level

Introductory

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Coursera

Institution

University of Colorado Boulder

Instructor

Joel Hartter

Level

Introductory

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