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). 

Collaborative Conservation: Partnerships in Practice builds on the foundational skills taught Managing by Network. 

Below, you can explore other agency training resources, as well as the competency chart and specific courses grouped by core competency. 

Partnering

• Inspiring Leadership through Emotional Intelligence (USFWS NCTC)
• Introduction to the Nonprofit Sector, Nonprofit Organizations, Leadership and Governance (COURSERA)
• Networks and Partnerships (WashU at Brookings)
• Recruit, Retain, Reactivate (R3) (USFWS NCTC)
• Reinvigorating Your Friends Partnership (USFWS NCTC)

Community Collaboration

• Collaboration and Conflict Transformation in Multi-party processes (USACE, USFWS NCTC)
• Collaborative Conservation: Partnerships in Practice (USFWS NCTC)
• Communicating Science - Distilling Your Message (USFWS NCTC)
• Crucial Conversations (USFWS NCTC, Vital Smarts, or BLM, Contact Toni Suminski)
• Emotionally Intelligent Leadership (Management Concepts)
• Facilitating Dynamic Meetings  (DOI Talent)
• Facilitator Trainings (Leadership Strategies)
• Foundations in Public Participation (USFWS NCTC, The Participation Company)
• Getting to the Core of Conflict and Communications (BLM NTC, DOI Talent)
• Leadership Challenge (DOI Talent)
• Leadership Foundation (BLM, Contact Toni Suminski)
• National FWS Communications, Outreach and Visitor Services Workshop (USFWS NCTC)
• Public Facilitation Essentials: Public Facilitator Training (The Participation Company)
• Public Involvement and Team Building in Planning (USACE, Prospect Course #407)
• Relationship Management (USACE, PROSPECT #224)
• Risk Communication and Public Involvement (USACE PROSPECT Course #104)
• Speed of Trust (USFWS NCTC, Franklin Covey)
• Strategies for Dealing with Opposition and Outrage in Public Participation (International Association for Public Participation, The Participation Company)

Strategic Thinking

• Communicating Science – Distilling Your Message (USFWS NCTC)
• Change Management  (USFWS NCTC)
• Congressional Operations Seminar (USFWS NCTC)
• Environmental Communication: Research into Practice (International Environmental Communication Association)
• Human Dimensions: Foundations of Natural Resource Conservation (USFWS NCTC)

Partnership Management

• Advanced Supervision: Building On Experience (USFWS NCTC)
• Building Coalitions: The Art of Successful Collaboration (OPM, Center for Leadership Development) 
• Negotiation Skills for Conservation Professionals: Building a Foundation (USFWS NCTC)
• Project Management Essentials (BLM Virtual Webinar, DOI Talent)
• Strategies and Tactics for the Experienced Conservation Negotiator (USFWS NCTC)

Accountability

• Crucial Accountability (Vital Smarts)
• Restoration Policy, Planning, and Partnering  (USFWS NCTC)
• 5 Choices for Extraordinary Productivity (BLM webinar, DOI Talent)
• 7 Habits of Highly Effective People - Foundations (BLM webinar, DOI Talent)
• Agency/Bureau Specific: Federal Ethics Principles and Regulations 

These courses are recommended by: 

• USFWS, National Conservation Training Center
• BLM National Conservation Lands and Community Partnerships Directorate
• BLM National Training Center
• USDA Forest Service, 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