Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship

Enhance Your Strategic Abilities and Skills in Stakeholder Engagement

October 28, 2006

Stakeholder Engagement and Dialogue

http://www.bcccc.net/stakeholder

December 6-8, 2006 Â• Miami

CHESTNUT HILL, MA – Are you looking for new ways to engage stakeholders to resolve complex issues? Do you want to convene broad-based networks to create more sustainable communities? Would you like to improve your skills in productive multi-stakeholder conversations and dialogue? In this program from the Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship, learn how to enhance your strategic abilities and skills in stakeholder engagement and master different approaches to managing stakeholder relations. You will learn to:

Understand the business case for co-creative stakeholder engagement

Build and use social capital

Produce a stakeholder network map to focus engagement activities

Prepare a stakeholder engagement plan

Develop new engagement strategies to minimize unproductive conflict

Use systems thinking to help identify interconnected issues and potential solutions

Know when to use dialogue, debate and discussion

Learn the fundamentals of stakeholder dialogue

For more information, go to http://www.bcccc.net/stakeholder

The Center’s executive education offerings cover planning, strategy, program development, implementation, communications, evaluation, leadership development and competency building, leading to a Certificate awarded by the Boston College Carroll School of Management.

The Center also offers courses at company sites on request, and can customize its offerings to address companies’ specific challenges and needs.

For more information, call The Center at 617.552.4545, or go to The Center’s web site at http://www.bcccc.net.

About The Center for Corporate Citizenship at Boston College

The Center for Corporate Citizenship at Boston College engages with companies to redefine business success as creating measurable gains for business and society. Our vision is that business will use its assets to help assure economic prosperity and a just and sustainable world. The Center achieves results through the power of research, education and member engagement. The Center offers publications including a newsletter, research reports, and white papers; executive education, including a Certificate program; events that include an annual conference, roundtables and regional meetings; and a corporate membership program.

For more information visit The Center’s web site at http://www.bcccc.net,

Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship

55 Lee Road

Chestnut Hill, MA 02467-3942

Tel. 617.552.4545

http://www.bcccc.net

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