Navigating Stakeholder Dynamics in Youth-Serving Systems
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New Virtual Workshop Giving Participants Practical Tools for Cross-System Collaboration
Join us on May 6th and 7th for a new virtual interactive workshop designed to help youth‑serving professionals address one of the most persistent challenges in system change: building and sustaining collaboration among partners operating under different mandates, priorities, and infrastructures.
Participants will learn to diagnose stakeholder dynamics and power relationships, identify the incentives and burdens shaping engagement, and apply structured toolssuch as stakeholder mapping and system incentive profiling to clarify roles, responsibilities, and decision‑making authority.
The focus of this workshop is on real‑world application. Participants will analyze root causes of their own partnership challenges and develop concrete strategies to align diverse stakeholders around shared goals that promote youth well-being and long-term success.
What You’ll Learn:
- Diagnose stakeholder dynamics and power relationships using structured analytical tools.
- Identify incentives, benefits, and burdens shaping partner engagement across youth-serving systems.
- Design strategies to build and sustain cross-system collaboration, even in environments with competing mandates, timelines, and accountability structures.
- Clarify roles, responsibilities, and decision-making authority to reduce friction and increase follow-through.
- Apply stakeholder engagement tools and concepts to current initiatives.