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Join a small number of fellow professionals to follow an intensive one-day agenda specially designed to equip practitioners with skills and knowledge to do their jobs better.

This is a very different type of experience. As with other Institute training courses, this is an opportunity to join a small number of fellow professionals to follow an intensive one-day agenda specially designed to equip practitioners with skills and knowledge to do their jobs better.

The focus of this course is on helping consultation co-ordinators and consultation project managers get fully to grips with the different requirements of hard-to-reach or seldom-heard communities. It covers recent must-know legislative and research developments, identification and profiling, how to work alongside "gatekeepers" and how to select consultation techniques that work for these groups. Laurence Chester, as principal Trainer uses his considerable experience to provide examples of successful engagement, and has devised special Group Exercises to help translate the theory into practice.

The course also covers important management issues likely to be of concern to those who oversee wider participation and consultation programmes. This includes the vital challenge of securing senior management support and the addressing the joined-up consultation agenda.

To book online go to our website www.consultationinstitute.org You can also telephone 01414 160 790 or 01767 689 600 or email  

Date: 28 March 2007

Location: London

Cost: Consultation Institute Members enjoy an attractive discounted price of ?179 + vat for the course; others pay ?235 + vat