Featured Courses and Events
Advanced Supervision: Building on Experience - LED6166
Date & Location: October 22-26, 2012 at NCTC in Shepherdstown, WV
Length: 5 days
Who Should Attend: Experienced supervisors (3+ years) who are interested in developing supervisory competencies.
Course Description: Provides participants the opportunity to be on the cutting edge of best supervisory practices in today's challenging and changing work environment. Feedback from a custom 360 Self-Awareness Assessment that focuses on 11 supervisory competencies provides the foundation for application throughout the course. It covers developing strategies such as leading through change, teambuilding, conflict management with the Strengths Deployment Inventory©, managing work and time management, personal development and how to address performance and conduct issues.
Social Media and Digital Content Development - CLM7157
Date & Location: October 1 – November 1, 2012 - for Regions 2, 3, 4, 5, and Headquarters (Registration deadline is September 17, 2012)
November 13 – December 14, 2012 - for Regions 1, 6, 7, 8 (Registration deadline is October 29, 2012)
Distance Learning Course
Who Should Attend: FWS employees who will be using social media as a communications tool for their field station, refuge, or program.
Course Description: This course will introduce you to several social media platforms – Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, and YouTube – and how you can use these powerful communications tools to connect with your audience. The course is offered via distance learning and consists of self-paced online tutorials and weekly webinars instructed by FWS social media experts.
Introduction To Visitor Services – CLM8140
Date & Location:
November 5-9, 2012 at NCTC in Shepherdstown, WV
December 9-13, 2013 at NCTC in Shepherdstown, WV
(Course is 4 ½ days and ends at 12 noon on last day)
Who Should Attend: Anyone involved with FWS visitor services or public use programs, including project leaders, natural resource managers, environmental educators, interpretive staff, outreach specialists, outdoor recreation planners, park rangers, and volunteers.
Course Description: This course will familiarize participants with the history, regulations and policies that guide our work to connect the American public to the nature of the mission of the FWS. Topics covered will include: understanding the visitor services standards, defining and determining the differences between, and use of interpretation, environmental education and outreach programs, and an overview of emerging technologies and techniques to help participants enhance the quality of refuge visitor service programs.
Human Dimensions of Natural Resources Conservation - CLM8225
Date & Location: Offered Quarterly: November, February, May, August – Dates to be Announced
Broadcast Series
Who Should Attend: FWS staff working with natural resource issues and the public, including biologists, managers, outreach specialists, outdoor recreation planners, partnership coordinators.
Course Description: Human Dimensions address the relationship of people to the land and wildlife. Through these broadcasts we will introduce you to this subject, providing up-to-date academic theory and on-the-ground Fish and Wildlife Service examples.
