April 30 - May 4, 2007 NCI Charrette Planner® Certificate Training - Updated and Expanded The NCI Charrette Planner® Certificate training has been revised to reflect the latest tools and techniques in The Charrette Handbook. An extra half-day has been added in order to accommodate more meeting planning and facilitation basics, a new kick-off meeting agenda exercise, and more stakeholder outreach and engagement tools. To receive the NCI Charrette Planner® certificate, you must complete both the half-day Introduction to Dynamic Planning and the two and a half-day Continuing Dynamic Planning.

Course Content

Introduction to Dynamic Planning (half-day)

This NCI workshop will provide a complete overview of the NCI Dynamic Planning process. This seminar forms the framework for the Continuing Dynamic Planning training. Participants include anyone who wants to know about this powerful collaborative planning process, from elected officials to planning staff, from developers to concerned citizens.

April 30, 9 AM - 12: 30 PM

Continuing Dynamic Planning (two and a half-days)

This course is geared toward public and private planning staff, development managers and advocacy group staff. This information is invaluable both for those who hire others to conduct charrettes and for those who will be conducting charrettes themselves. By the end of the program you will have practiced the complete process for planning a charrette. You will gain a practical, working knowledge of the most advanced tools and techniques used by the leaders of the field. Depending on your skill and experience level, upon completion of the course you will be able to host or conduct an NCI Charrette.

April 30, 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM
May 1, 9 AM - 4:30 PM
May 2, 9 AM - 4:30 PM

NCI Complete Charrette Manager^TM Certificate

Charrettes are dynamic with unique challenges. Charrette managers must be quick on their feet and have a large toolbox of processes and skills. The NCI Charrette Management training equips professionals with the necessary tools for managing large charrettes. This 1.5-day training is an in-depth study of the most challenging aspects of the multiple-day charrette.

To receive the NCI Complete Charrette Manager^TM Certificate, you must fulfill the following three training requirements:

1. Introduction to NCI Dynamic Planning .5-day
2. Continuing NCI Dynamic Planning 2.5-day
3. NCI Charrette Management 1.5-day

NCI Charrette Management

This new course is intended for professionals who will be running charrettes. Charrettes are dynamic events with unique challenges. Charrette managers must be quick on their feet and have a large toolbox of processes and skills. This advanced charrette management training will equip charrette managers with the essential tools and techniques required to handle unique, fast paced, and constantly changing, multiple-day charrettes.

May 3, 9am-4:30pm
May 4, 9am-1pm

Course Content:
The purpose of this training is to teach the most effective tools and techniques for managing a multiple-day charrette event. This is an advanced course for serious planning practitioners.

You will learn to:

• Assemble, schedule, and manage a charrette team
• Design and manage a charrette studio including equipment, layout and food
• Facilitate design decision-making during a charrette, including criteria based analysis using OSM (objectives, strategies, and measures)
• Manage the production process including information technology
• Manage the press

Using the Case Study Method, You Will Learn:

Charrette Facilitation:

Hands-on Workshop: learn how to run an interactive public workshop for creating a shared vision.

Charrette Preparation Exercises

Project Mission: write the element of the project mission that will serve as the guidepost for the project management team

Charrette Products List: develop the list of documents that dictate the charrette schedule and team make-up.

Stakeholder Analysis and Outreach (newly expanded): learn how to identify, qualify and connect with the people that will make or break your project.

Project Complexity Analysis: analyze your project's complexity level to help you decide the length of the charrette.

Dynamic Planning Roadmap: design an entire project process following the three phase Dynamic Planning Process

Charrette Ready Plan: develop the complete steps for becoming "charrette ready" and in doing so answer the question "when can we do the charrette?"

Charrette Schedule: create a day-by-day schedule for your charrette, including public meetings, open houses and stakeholder meetings.

Instructor

Bill Lennertz, AIA is NCI's Executive Director. Bill has trained top staff from federal and local planning agencies and national planning firms. Bill is a co-author of "The Charrette Handbook," published by the APA.

Sponsored by Urban Affairs & Planning at Virginia Tech

Additional course information available at www.charretteinstitute.org. For additional questions regarding registration, location and other details, please contact conference registration at at (540) 231-5182. For questions concerning training curriculum, please contact info@charretteinstitute.org or call (503) 233-8486

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