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Learn how to engage communities through powerful storytelling, data visualization, and persuasive presence to motivate action on complex environmental projects.
Co-produce outcomes on your environmental projects by effectively engaging and motivating diverse communities to work towards a shared vision founded in environmental goals.
Lead teams on your complex, distributed environmental projects through modern leadership and agile execution to co-produce powerful and sustainable outcomes.
Syllabus
- Course 1: Environmental Project Management: Stakeholder Collaboration
- Course 2: Environmental Project Management: Stakeholder Outreach
- Course 3: Co-Production in Adaptive Environmental Management
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Build the communication and stakeholder engagement skills needed to address complex environmental challenges and inspire communities to take action. Explore how environmental project managers can use storytelling, active listening, clear communication, and compelling evidence to build support around problems worth solving. Apply storytelling frameworks to communicate complex environmental topics with clarity and purpose. Transform data into meaningful visualizations that help stakeholders interpret information, recognize patterns, and make informed decisions. Develop strategies for analyzing audiences, building trust and credibility, and communicating effectively with project teams, community members, customers, and other stakeholders. Strengthen your presence and presentation skills for in-person, virtual, and public-facing environments. Combine verbal and nonverbal communication, data visualization, and audience-centered storytelling to create presentations that clarify complex information and motivate stakeholder engagement. Designed for environmental professionals, project managers, sustainability practitioners, community leaders, and anyone involved in stakeholder or public outreach, this course provides practical communication tools for building collaboration, strengthening relationships, and advancing environmental projects.
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Build the stakeholder collaboration skills needed to address complex socio-environmental problems that no single person, organization, or discipline can solve alone. Explore how environmental project leaders bring diverse stakeholders, rights holders, disciplines, and organizations together to develop a shared understanding of complex challenges and work toward meaningful solutions. Examine why complex and “wicked” problems require collaboration across different perspectives and areas of expertise. Apply the concept of requisite variety to identify and engage the range of voices, knowledge, and experiences needed to understand a problem more completely. Explore transdisciplinary, cross-disciplinary, and cross-organizational approaches to collaborative problem solving. Develop strategies for organizing stakeholder groups, establishing productive collaboration, and integrating different perspectives when information and responsibilities are distributed across multiple parties. Learn how environmental project leaders can facilitate collaboration even when no formal organization or established structure exists among those affected by the problem. Developed through a collaboration between the University of Maryland Project Management Center for Excellence and the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, this course connects environmental science with practical project management approaches for tackling complex socio-environmental challenges.
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Unlock Your Potential in Environmental Project Management. Are you ready to excel in leading complex environmental projects and drive sustainable outcomes? This course is designed to equip you with cutting-edge adaptive management practices and leadership skills essential for navigating distributed environments and tackling intricate environmental challenges. Empowering Team Members and Stakeholders Through this course, you will learn how to empower team members closest to the work by fostering decision-making and ownership, ensuring every stakeholder plays a vital role in co-producing sustainable solutions. You will explore strategies to build and facilitate great partnerships, from assembling high-performing teams to establishing motivation, framing purpose, and creating psychological safety that amplifies collaboration and mitigates risks during project execution. Adaptive Management Across Environmental Sectors Whether your focus is on climate change, ecological systems, biodiversity, land management, international development, natural resource management, water resources, or wetland protection, adaptive management and stakeholder engagement are central to achieving impactful results. This course emphasizes trust-building across diverse teams and provides actionable insights into implementing interventions and iterative feedback loops to align efforts and achieve shared goals. Strategic Management Frameworks You will gain expertise in establishing clear management processes and strategic execution frameworks that enhance decision-making at all levels. Learn how to apply management strategies such as Objectives and Key Results (OKRs), agile team design, and adaptive execution frameworks to coordinate efforts effectively without dictating direction. These approaches foster feedback, strengthen partnerships, and encourage participatory adaptive management. Real-World Case Studies The course culminates with an in-depth case study on the Chesapeake Bay watershed and sustainability. Dive into real-world examples of adaptive management in action, including the Chesapeake fisheries, to understand water quality, regulatory impacts, and the success of active adaptive management. These lessons will empower you to model adaptive management practices for your own environmental projects, influencing future management, fostering healthy ecosystems, and driving sustainability. Join the Journey to Leadership in environmental project management and make a lasting impact on the world.
Taught by
John Johnson
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I must admit that, at the outset, I was somewhat doubtful about the potential outcomes of this course. However, upon beginning the first module, Stakeholders Collaboration, I quickly found myself fully engaged. The content was thoughtfully structured, clearly presented, and highly accessible—particularly for someone new to environmental project management. I extend my sincere appreciation to Mr. John Johnson, Dr. Bill Dennison, and the entire team for delivering such an engaging and well-prepared learning experience.