Recommended Training

The Managing by Network course features the knowledge, skills, abilities and behaviors associated with 22 partnership and community collaboration competencies, as defined by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM). DOI Talent Reference: Partnership and Community Collaboration Academy: Managing by Network (USFWS: NCTC CLM 8123).

Explore the competency chart and course list below for additional training opportunities. 

NCTC offerings are linked to the NCTC course guide. Find by keyword or course number.

Partnering

• Inspiring Leadership through Emotional Intelligence  (USFWS NCTC: L ED5030)
• Recruit, Retain, Reactivate (R3) ( USFWS NCTC: OUT8072 )
• Reinvigorating Your Friends Partnership (USFWS NCTC: CLM8129)

Community Collaboration

• Collaboration and Conflict Transformation in Multi-party processes (USFWS NCTC: ALC3199)
• Collaborative Conservation: Partnerships in Practice (USFWS NCTC: CLM8124)
• Communicating Science - Distilling Your Message (USFWS NCTC: CLM8204)
• Crucial Conversations (USFWS NCTC: LED5153) or (Vital Smarts) or (BLM, Contact Toni Suminski)
• Facilitating Dynamic Meetings  (DOI Talent)
• Facilitator Trainings (Leadership Strategies)
• Foundations in Public Participation (USFWS NCTC: CLM8227) or (The Participation Company)
• Getting to the Core of Conflict and Communications (DOI CADR and Academy webinar series) (BLM, DOI Talent)
• Leadership Challenge (DOI Talent)
• Leadership Foundation (BLM, Contact Toni Suminski)
• National FWS Communications, Outreach and Visitor Services Workshop (USFWS NCTC: CLM8252)
• Public Facilitation Essentials: Public Facilitator Training (The Participation Company)
• Speed of Trust (USFWS NCTC: LED5029) or (Franklin Covey)
• Strategies for Dealing with Opposition and Outrage in Public Participation (International Association for Public Participation) or (The Participation Company)

Strategic Thinking

• Communicating Science – Distilling Your Message (USFWS NCTC: CLM8204)
• Congressional Operations Seminar (USFWS NCTC: CLM8190)
• Change Management  (USFWS NCTC: OLT-0015, online self study)
• Environmental Communication: Research into Practice (International Environmental Communication Association)
• Human Dimensions: Foundations of Natural Resource Conservation (USFWS NCTC: CLM8226)

Partnership Management

• Advanced Supervision: Building On Experience (USFWS NCTC: LED6166)
• Negotiation Skills for Conservation Professionals: Building a Foundation (USFWS NCTC: CLM8135)
• Project Management Essentialls (BLM Virtual Webinar, DOI Talent)
• Strategies and Tactics for the Experienced Conservation Negotiator (USFWS NCTC: CLM8136)

Accountability

• 5 Choices for Extraordinary Productivity (BLM webinar, DOI Talent)
• 7 Habits of Highliy Effective People - Foundations (BLM webinar, DOI Talent)
• Crucial Acco untability (Vital Smarts)
• Restoration Policy, Planning, and Partnering  (USFWS NCTC: CSP3133)

USDA Forest Service

• Leadership Development at Grey Towers in Milford, PA

• Continuing Education for Natural Resource Professionals

• Partnerships on Every Forest Course Catalog

US Fish and Wildlife Service

• NCTC Course Guide
• Human Dimensions Broadcasts
• Human Dimensions Podcasts (use Chrome for best results)

Self-Study 

Podcasts and Recorded Webinars are available from the Human Dimensions Branch, National Wildlife Refuge System. 

Here you will find a wide range of topics including:

• Commitment to Collaboration: Facilitating Working Groups of Tribes and Government Agencies

• Persuasive Communication for Behavior Change

• Identifying and Engaging Stakeholders

• Engaging with Urban Communities: Connecting People, Conservation & Public Agencies

• Randy Olson: Communicating a Message through Storytelling

• and much more.

These courses are recommended by: 

• USFWS, National Conservation Training Center
• BLM Division of Education, Interpretation and Partnerships
• BLM National Training Center
• USFS, National Partnership Office
• USACE, Institute for Water Resources, Collaboration and Public Participation Center of Expertise (CPCX)
• DOI Office of Collaborative Action and Dispute Resolution (CADR)
• Partnership and Community Collaboration Academy and Academy alumni