Energize Your Partnerships and Networks
Collaboration Skills Program (Online)
The complexity of environmental and community issues often means you regularly work with others outside your team or organization. Whether formal or informal, you may be part of alliances, networks, coalitions, or other partnerships.
Collaborative work answers the question: “What can we do together that we cannot do alone?”
This three-part live training series will equip you with leadership skills and tools to help advance your group’s collaborative work, whether you’re leading or participating in a partnership, coalition, or network.
Do you wish your collaborative work could have a bigger impact? Do you have limited time or resources to make your collaborative work more effective?
Join this live training to develop skills and practical tools for engaging and energizing groups towards more effective collaboration. You will learn from ICL’s expertise facilitating hundreds of collaborations focused on protecting our air, land, water, and communities.
Who is this training for? What if I’m not the head of my collaborative group?
You can lead from any position, whether as a participant or a formal leader in a group. This live, online training will help you build skills to clarify direction, strengthen relationships, build shared infrastructure, and become comfortable with the complexity of working with a group of people.
Upcoming Dates
Fall 2025
Thursday, October 23rd
Thursday, October 30th
Thursday, November 6th
All sessions from 1:00 – 2:30 pm ET
Tuition Cost
Early Bird Pricing: $350
Regular Pricing: $375
Registration Deadlines
Early Bird: October 6th
Final Day to Register: October 20th
Outcomes
By the end of the training series, you will:
- Gain practical tools and approaches to help your collaborative groups achieve their goals and move their work forward.
- Build the core skills to support and effectively participate in partnerships, coalitions, or networks, which include how to:
- Develop trust-based relationships
- Share leadership and credit with peers
- Ensure group needs are being met
- Make decisions in groups
- Learn from ICL’s expertise in supporting collaborative work through real-world examples, strategies, and guidance.
- Tap the experience of peers in the training to gain fresh perspectives and inspiration for addressing challenges in your group’s collaborative work.
What you get from the program
- Three 90-minute, online live sessions led by ICL experts with an emphasis on skill-building
- Opportunities for peer learning through an interactive program with an emphasis on group engagement
- Assignments between sessions to deepen your learning
- Slides and all ICL handouts and worksheets from each session
- Recordings available for 60 days following the end of the program
Session Descriptions
Session 1 –
Focus: A foundational understanding of collaborative networks and their benefits. You will be able to shift your reference from working individually to effective methods to work with groups.
Session 2–
Focus: Practical tools and strategies to support work in groups–with a focus on relationship building. You will understand how to build relationships and ensure group needs are being met, no matter what stage of work your group is in.
Session 3 –
Focus: Practical tools and strategies on how to effectively participate in networks–with a focus on moving groups forward in their work. You will apply participatory decision making frameworks to support groups in their work and help them achieve their goals.
Additional Information
- Energize Your Partnerships and Networks is a three-part interactive training. Please come prepared to interact and contribute to the sessions.
- Please direct any questions about this training to Sarah Dietz at sarahd@icl.org.
- A calendar invitation and Zoom link will be shared with you before the workshop series begins.
- There are no refunds offered for this program. Registration transfers will be accepted on a case-by-case basis. Reach out to sarahd@icl.org with any questions.