Are you working in partnership, community collaboration and/or Tribal consultation to cooperatively steward our nation’s natural, cultural, and recreational resources?
Join us for Managing by Network, a training program designed to improve your readiness to apply relevant partnership competencies on the job.
This online, competency-based training program is scheduled over 6 months, and includes live webinars, peer learning, networking, and application opportunities.
Strengthen your professional skill set to:
Build consensus and promote trust
Facilitate internal and external meetings
Apply persuasion and negotiation strategies
Recognize conflict and respond effectively
Evaluate risk and demonstrate accountability
Assess partnership performance and impacts
Leverage resources to build collaborative capacity
Expand your networks to support partnerships
Explore practices. Build skills. Learn from peers.
Applications for the Class of 2025 are now open.
Impact
Managing by Network offers an unparalleled opportunity to connect with agency peers. Participants represent various agencies, positions, and communities nationwide.
Course participants share insights from their work with diverse partners including Native Nations, private landowners, public, private, and nonprofit organizations.
Participants apply course learning directly to their jobs. More than 90% agree that the course supports on-the-job application and reference their learning on a regular basis.
Managing by Network supports agency mission priorities and partnership practice. Participants and alumni lead significant partnership responsibilities within their agencies. Most spend more than half of their time working in partnership and may work on 20+ partnerships at a time.
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Learning Objectives
Applying knowledge and skills learned in this course, participants will be able to:
- Strengthen an internal and external network of individuals and organizations to advance the mission of the agency.
- Build accountability and trust between agencies, organizations, or Tribes and their partners, interested parties, and the public.
- Demonstrate professional competence in applying best practices for partnership, community collaboration, and Tribal consultation.
- Apply social science concepts and practices to support relevance and resilience in building, maintaining, and sustaining partner networks.
- Understand and navigate differences in agency and partner organizational cultures and authorities, while working cooperatively to leverage resources and achieve common goals.
Managing by Network is cohosted by:
