“If you are interested in learning how public agencies can get things done
(from siting a new dump to closing a library, to instituting a traffic calming policy) you might consider the Bleikers’ courses . . .
Theirs is the only course notebook I’ve received in 25 years that I still pull out and use on a regular basis.”
-Jim Schroll, Transportation Engineer, Anne Arundel County, MD
We teach management leadership courses primarily to public-sector professionals, such as engineers, scientists, planners, analysts, communications experts and managers. In our most popular and fundamental course, SDIC, we hand out a copy of our Citizen Participation Handbook.
This is an e-Book version of that CP Handbook, and as such, is slightly different from the original. The handbook, in its e-Book format, is for viewing strictly on a computer or some other e-Book reading device (PDA, etc.). It cannot be printed, copied, or transferred to other computers.
We have started to offer this e-Book version primarily for clients outside the United States. For years we have had occasional orders for our regular CP Handbook from Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Australia, India, Thailand, and other far away places. Postage for sending hard-copy books (the hard-copy three-ring binder version weighs several pounds) tends to be exorbitant. It is primarily to serve these far-away Consent-Building students better that we have developed the e-Book version.
This e-Book is priced to make it affordable for people in under-developed and developing countries. For those of you Consent-Building students in the USA and other developed countries, it makes sense to simply purchase and download another copy (a more current copy) when you have team members who need a copy, or when you upgrade your computer and, thus, lose your installed copy.
None of the handouts are included in the e-Book version because they can be downloaded directly from either of our websites.
In it you’ll find:
The main text for our CPO Consent-Building courses.
- the 60 CP Principles that govern how things work in the strange, sometimes counter-intuitive, world of Citizen Participation.
- the 15 CP Objectives that can make or break any proposal or recommendation
- the 70+ CP Techniques that you can have in your tool box. Tools you can use to fulfill your project’s CP Objectives.
What’s Different in the E-Book Version?
As an e-Book, this handbook is very inexpensive; but, it also has severe limitations:
- This e-Book is for one-time downloading on your computer or other e-Book device.
- It cannot be printed, copied, or transferred to other computers.
- None of the handouts are included in the e-Book version because nearly all of them can be downloaded directly from either of our websites.
Systematic Development of Informed Consent (SDIC)
Seattle, WA: October 12 - 14, 2010
Citizen Participation-by-Objectives (CPO)
Seattle, WA: October 26 - 28, 2010
Leadership Bootcamp
Available Soon as a Sequence of Online Modules
Monthly Brownbag Sessions
Why Implementations Geniuses are Respected, Not Maligned or Unappreciated
Using the Bleiker Life Preserver as a Quick-and-Dirty Consent Building Tactic
How to Maximize Input and Minimize Pseudo-Input
The Tactic of Fishbowl Planning
Understanding Higher Values versus Object-Related Values
How Mere Stagehands Can Expose Hidden Agendas
Why You Need to Focus on Consent Rather Than Consensus
Nurturing and Protecting Your (and Your Agency’s) Credibility