Centre d'apprentissage

Personal Development:

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• Work/Life Balance and Wellbeing: This course helps you prioritise self-care, reducing stress and improving your personal wellbeing, an often-overlooked aspect in conservation.
• Unconscious Bias: Understand and mitigate unconscious biases that affect your work, whether it’s related to gender, age, race, or other factors.
• Receiving and Seeking Feedback: Discover how to build a positive relationship with feedback, understand its significance, and overcome any apprehensions.
• Learning from Failure: Understand the importance of learning from failure and improve your team culture in recognizing and exploring failure.

Team and Leadership:

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• Team Development: Explore how teams evolve using Tuckman’s model, and learn techniques to advance your team’s growth.
• The Power of Support Networks: Learn the value of personal networks and how they can aid your development as a conservation leader.
• Managing Change: Explore your responses to change and develop strategies to lead your team effectively through transitions using Lewin’s change management model.
• Conflict Resolution: Develop conflict resolution strategies, understand sources of conflict, and learn principled negotiation.
• Motivating People: Discover strategies for motivating and energizing individuals in a conservation setting, even amidst its unique challenges.
• Giving Effective Feedback: Master the art of giving feedback with the CEDAR model, which provides a structured approach to constructive communication.
• Active Listening: Improve your listening skills and understand how active listening can enhance your effectiveness as a leader.

Project Management:

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• Good Fund Management: A comprehensive course covering contract and grant agreements, procurement, fund monitoring, and audit preparation.
• Persuading People: Gain the power of persuasion to influence donors, government officials, and other key stakeholders to support conservation initiatives.
• Outputs, Outcomes, Impacts, Oh My: Clarify project terminology and understand the differences between inputs, activities, outputs, outcomes, and impacts for effective proposal writing.
• Implication des parties prenantes: Learn why engaging with community stakeholders is crucial for equitable conservation, and how to do it effectively.
  (disponible en français)
• Grievance Mechanisms: Explore how grievance mechanisms can ensure fair and effective conservation activities.
• Social Safeguards: Gain insights into the role of social safeguards in biodiversity conservation and how they contribute to fair and effective practices.