{"id":6799,"date":"2017-11-02T09:38:39","date_gmt":"2017-11-02T09:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbc.org.uk\/events\/?p=6799"},"modified":"2017-11-01T17:42:43","modified_gmt":"2017-11-01T17:42:43","slug":"training-course-communications-for-infrastructure-and-development-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/events2600.live-website.com\/?p=6799","title":{"rendered":"Training Course: Communications for Infrastructure and Development Projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>22 November 2017<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>London<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Getting your narrative right is vital if you want to engage public interest and secure stakeholder support for infrastructure and development projects \u2026 where the benefits of a proposal often seem fair away, but the impacts are often felt strongly and locally today.<\/p>\n<p>This advanced training course provides in-depth expertise on managing communications for infrastructure and development projects, including:<\/p>\n<p>\u25cf Building your communications strategy<br \/>\n\u25cf Harnessing the wider story \u2013 for example economic, employment, regeneration, or devolution angles \u2013 and linking to the national picture.<br \/>\n\u25cf Effective pre-consultation engagement.<br \/>\n\u25cf Researching and testing messages, including using polling and focus groups.<br \/>\n\u25cf Mapping and engaging with your stakeholders.<br \/>\n\u25cf From short-term tactics to long-term narrative.<br \/>\n\u25cf Managing high political and public interest, locally and nationally.<br \/>\n\u25cf Aligning stakeholder interests \u2013 from sponsor, to delivery body, to businesses, and the public.<\/p>\n<p>The course is taught by Paul Chapman: Paul was Managing Director of HS1, co-authored the DfT\u2019s Brown Review on rail franchising, was Interim Communications Director at HS2, and developed the transport strategy for the London 2012 bid.<\/p>\n<p>He therefore has first-hand experience of the techniques and approaches required to deliver effective infrastructure communications across high-profile public and private sector projects.<\/p>\n<p>\u25cf Date: Wednesday 22nd November<br \/>\n\u25cf Time: 9.30am to 12.30pm<br \/>\n\u25cf Location: Westbourne, 17 Carlton House Terrace, London, SW1Y 5AH<br \/>\n\u25cf Cost: \u00a3250+VAT. (Discounts are available for bookings of more than three delegates)<\/p>\n<p>To register, please <a href=\"http:\/\/www.westbournecoms.com\/training-communications-for-infrastructure-projects-22nd-november-2017\/\">book online<\/a>, email training@westbournecoms.com, or telephone 0203 397 0100.<br \/>\nRegister online<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>22 November 2017 London Getting your narrative right is vital if you want to engage public interest and secure stakeholder support for infrastructure and development projects \u2026 where the benefits &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/events2600.live-website.com\/?p=6799\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Training Course: Communications for Infrastructure and Development Projects<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-event","category-ihbc-areas-of-competence-professional"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/events2600.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/events2600.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/events2600.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/events2600.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/events2600.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6799"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/events2600.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6800,"href":"https:\/\/events2600.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6799\/revisions\/6800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/events2600.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/events2600.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/events2600.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}