The Center Collaborators:

Focusing on:

• Ecosystem Health

• Climate Change and the Ocean

• The Land-Sea Interaction

• Fisheries and Ocean Education

Mission: The Center for Ocean Solutions works to solve the major problems facing the ocean and prepares leaders to take

on these challenges.

2) Communicate

and Engage

• Our Audiences

• Biophysical and Social Context

• Local, Regional Impacts

1) Understand

• Trainings, Workshops, Synthesis

• Practitioner, Academic Articles

• Easy to Understand Reports

3) Help Implement Solutions

• Condition the Decision Making Climate for Solution Uptake

• Help Implement Solutions

• Leverage Solutions

Innovate

•Generate creative ideas through effective brainstorming.•Develop a theory of change for a specific intervention.•Identify successful examples and critical behaviors for desired change •Identify key situations and habits that, once tweaked, will promote desired change

Collaborate

•Apply key persuasion techniques.•Recognize and practice specific behaviors for effective team work.•Apply the collective impact approach to collaboration.•Document lessons learned from at least three mentors.•Develop strong personal and professional connections with other course participants.

Communicate

•Describe, recognize, and use four different styles of thinking.•Create and articulate a project vision.•Design and deliver an effective presentation to decision-makers.•Apply effective listening skills.•Connect on an emotional level with people in a way that motivates desired change

Ocean Leadership Practicum