Joan Roberts Consulting

A Teleclass is an interactive, teaching workshop. Organized through a scheduled telephone conference call and accessible from any phone, you are connected to a fully-interactive, telephone classroom with students from all over the world.

Classes generally run an hour in length and can be scheduled for your convenience.

Why you should take a Joan Roberts Teleclass

As an introduction to alliances, coalitions and partnerships, you will learn:

• How to solve complex organizational problems
• How to recognize organizational similarities and use them to build bridges
• Early Warning: The top five benefits and challenges you will encounter
• How to get the most from your stakeholders
• Increasing your success rate with value-added benefits
• Lateral leadership techniques
• The best techniques for establishing collaborative guidelines and exercising administrative authority
• Practical instruction and information from “on the ground” authorities
• Build on what you know. Ask specific questions you need answered in our highly participatory environment
• Scheduled to your convenience
• Attend from home or office
• Custom designed for any kind of organization and for local, provincial, national, international or global participation

Joan Robert’s 6-step framework for building successful alliances, coalitions and partnerships:

1. Identify problems
2. How to motivate for collaboration
3. How to identify and select the best partnerships
4. Collaborative planning
5. Build an organization to structure a unique trans-organizational system to forge productive links, and bridge boundaries and communication gaps
6. Evaluation

“Great ideas for social change need great organization to make them happen.”