Skills Workshops
Skills Workshops
IGP helps prepare students for careers in policy through hands-on training sessions and Skills Workshops designed to build on essential practices seldom taught in the classroom, such as legislative negotiation, speechwriting, and campaign management.
Legislative Negotiation Skills Workshop
IGP and the Center for Legislative Negotiation (CLN) hosted a workshop led by facilitators with over three decades of experience working across government to achieve bipartisan policy goals. The workshop featured a mock-legislative negotiation designed to provide students with tools and techniques that can be utilized in a wide range of legislative negotiations.
Ghaith al-Olmari and Gideon “Gidi” Grinstein completed a unique two-day workshop that blended diplomatic history with present-day practical analysis.
Ghaith al-Omari and Gideon “Gidi” Grinstein, who served as the secretaries of the Palestinian and Israeli delegations, respectively, held a workshop on the permanent-status negotiations for Palestinian statehood that took place between Israeli and Palestinian representatives at the Camp David Summit in 2000
Zayn Siddique, former principal deputy director of the White House Domestic Policy Council, and Betsy Ankney, former political director of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, held a workshop focused on the ins and outs of political campaign work.
The award-winning journalist Kim Ghattas convened a workshop on April 26 to discuss the process of writing a book with students who aspire to do the same.
On March 27, the Institute of Global Politics (IGP) hosted a skills workshop with the World Bank’s Women, Business, and the Law team, giving students the opportunity to dive deeper into the process of developing indicators.
In today’s deeply polarized political climate, training policymakers in strategies and providing them tools to negotiate across the aisle is critical.
One speech can change a career — consider the unknown state senator from Chicago whose oratory at the 2004 Democratic National Convention set him on a glide path toward the Oval Office.