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Climate Change for Champions

Giving champion teams the tools and skills for winning the argument and creating change.

Who is the workshop for?

This intensive course is designed to support and empower staff who have been appointed as climate or sustainability champions within a local authority or government department.

What happens in the workshop?

Through managed discussions the participants work together as a team to determine personal and team goals. They explore the challenges of generating change in large organisations and develop strategies to deal with the obstacles they will encounter.

The course also looks at the details of engagement and persuasion, including modules on confident public speaking, giving effective presentations and finding winning messages. Participants will leave with a personal plan and objectives, a new set of communication skills and messages, and a strengthened sense of team purpose.

Making Effective Climate Change Presentations

This new course is a personalised guide to creating oral, visual or aural communications, specialising in effective techniques, dos and don'ts.
 
Length: 4 hours (one facilitator)
Level: Beginner to Expert 

Who is this workshop for?

Individuals who will create any form of oral,visual, or aural communications will benefit from the course and learn to make effective and memorable presentations. These presentations could be for internal staff, community groups, SME businesses or other local associations.

What happens in the workshop?

Climate Change Speaker Training (for Local Authorities)

This intensive one-day course gives participants the text, information, skills and confidence to prepare and deliver a persuasive half hour talk on climate change.
‘Exceptionally useful training that gave me the structure, foundation and clarity to speak to groups’
Alexis Garnaut-Miller, Corporate Wellness
 

Who is the course for?

Speaker Training is commonly held by Local Authorities as an event for the public to increase the effectiveness of partners working on climate awareness-raising and mitigation efforts. Since 2005, over 1500 people have attended the Speaker Training Programme.

Past participants report that the course provides the skills, confidence and motivation to speak effectively about climate change. The highly interactive format of the training helps participants to meet, share ideas and form lasting contacts.

Climate Change Adaptation

A new course helping councils to identify the risks and plans needed for climate adaptation.

‘An invaluable tool for all of us involved, and to help us communicate to others.’

Cllr. Tim Harman, Gloucestershire County Council

Who is the workshop for? 

This event provides a motivational primer on adapting to climate change and is especially well suited for authorities implementing NI188. The primary objective is for participants to discover for themselves the planning implications of adaptation for all council activities.

Typically the course is made available to managers across all service delivery areas. The content can be adapted to the local context, using sources from DEFRA and regional government offices and by collaborating with the council to identify immediate, relevant examples.

Climate Change Condensed (for Local Authorities)

The only course in Britain to offer a fast-moving ‘all-you-need-to-know’ introduction to climate change in just three hours.

"I found this course engaging, fun and ultimately it left me feeling very positive about our collective capacity to tackle climate change."
Rachel Segal Hamilton, Project Coordinator at Envision
 

Who is the course for?

This course has been held for officers, elected members and the general public alike. For participants who are new to climate change it provides a solid grounding in the topic and the case for action. For those with more experience, the event offers fresh perspectives on climate change and a framework for sharing knowledge and experience.

Communicating Climate Change (for Local Authorities)

 A one-day course addressing the latest research on public attitudes and behaviour, providing a personalised toolkit for climate change communications: the winning arguments and the approaches to avoid.
‘The course made us ask a series of questions about what we’ve been doing on awareness-raising. It will certainly help us with our work in the future’

J Owens, Town Planner and Head of Service, Vale Royal Borough Council

Local Authorities

The Climate Outreach Information Network (COIN) is the UK’s leading provider of climate change training courses.  We have workshops for many sectors of the community including businesses, local authorities, community organisations, and trade unions. A suite of COIN’s courses have been designed to address the many new challenges facing local councils, including the advent of national climate indicators and a growing body of national policy and legislation.

What are the workshops like?
The workshops are interactive, combining formal presentations with group exercises and discussion. The mix is designed to give participants the tools and enthusiasm for individual and collective efforts to tackle climate change.

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