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Module 5.3

Demonstrate leadership skills through collaborative decision-making, consultation, and conflict resolution

Module 5.3 will enhance students’ leadership skills through learning activities that focus on leadership skills, consultation and collaborative decision-making surrounding forest resource management issues. Key topics include organization and facilitation of decision-making processes, conflict resolution and negotiation skills to arrive at defensible positions when action is required.

Module Objectives

  • Describe how social, cultural, and geographical differences apply to this topic;
  • Facilitate collaborative decision-making; Apply conflict resolution skills;
  • Organize a group to achieve a goal; and
  • Defend a resulting plan of action.

Module Schedule

This course involves a combination of recorded lectures, readings, assignments and participation in semi-synchronous online discussion forums and synchronous tutorials with instructors and other participants over an 8-week period

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Course Content

Getting Started

  • Getting Started

    Welcome to Module 5.3

Week 1

  • Introductory Lecture

    Using knowledge elements 5.3.1 –5.3.5 as an organizational framework to introduce key concepts and related content

  • Readings

    Building bridges across agency boundaries 1997

Week 2

  • Core lecture 1: The Evolution of Forest Management in Ontario

    A retelling with emphasis on ethics and the profession of forestry.

  • Core lecture 2: Indigenous perspectives and traditional knowledge

    Ways of “misknowing”, myths surrounding traditional environmental knowledge, naturalized knowledge, concepts of time, our constitution and society

  • Supplementary Lectures (not mandatory)

    Ontario’s Far North – Part 1

  • Readings

    Old Growth Policy for Ontario’s Crown Forests, Old Forest Policy of Nova Scotia

  • Discussion Forum 5.3a

    Ontario’s Timber Class EA

Week 3

  • Online tutorial

    The online tutorial will give students the opportunity to connect with their instructors and peers to discuss content to-date, answer questions and foster conversations surrounding course materials, and discuss upcoming assignments.

  • Assignment #1

    Describe how social, cultural, and geographical differences apply to the demonstration of leadership skills through collaborative decision-making, consultation, and conflict resolution. Draw upon your own forestry related work/work planning/consultation experience to provide contrasting examples.

Week 4

  • Discussion Forum 5.3b

    Chapter 24 of Creating a Forestry for the 21st century

Week 5

  • Assignment #1 Submission

    Please submit Assignment #1

  • Assignment #2

    Provide a critical review of the Old Growth Policy for Ontario’s Crown Forests.

Week 6

  • Assignment #2 Proposal Submission

    Please submit your proposal for Assignment #2

Week 7

  • Online tutorial

    The online tutorial will give students the opportunity to connect with their instructors and peers to discuss content to-date, answer questions and foster conversations surrounding course materials, and discuss upcoming assignments.

Week 8

  • Assignment #2 Submission