Stepping Up to Leadership (Cohort 42)

National Conservation Training Center — January 2022
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Primary Instructors: Janelle Quinn and Dave Wiltshire

A competency-based program that is designed to further expand leadership capacity of USFWS employees to tackle the agency’s most difficult conservation challenges. The emphasis is on leadership skills rather than supervisory, managerial, or technical skills, and is therefore appropriate for employees in all program areas, as well as supervisors and non-supervisors. The program includes virtual and in-residence sessions, experiential activities, skill assessments, peer feedback and support, team projects, developmental assignments, and coaching to help each cohort member identify their leadership strengths and opportunities for development.

Adaptive Leadership Training

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service — November 2022
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Instructor: Jill Hufnagel
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Together we will learn the adaptive leadership framework to build our capacity for diagnosing and making meaningful progress on the challenges we’re facing as an organization. The workshop is immersive and interactive. While we will be orienting to the adaptive leadership framework—built over the last 40 years at Harvard’s Kennedy School to deal with challenges that require more than expertise and technical skill, challenges without a manual—we will also be exploring the values, loyalties, and potential losses that make this kind of work so fraught and contentious. In many ways, the sessions are as much about you personally as they are about the challenges we’re facing as an organization.

Supervision for New Supervisors

DOI University — January 2022
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Instructor: Karen Kline

This is a contemporary approach to learning. It combines online learning content, individual assessment instruments, and mediated “question and answer” session with a Human Resource professional in a facilitated, instructor-led event that will enhance participants’ knowledge, skills, and performance as supervisors. This 5-day, 40-hour event supports supervisors in their first year to develop proficiency levels for OPM Leadership Competencies. This course equips participants with the foundational concepts and skills that federal supervisors need to be successful in leading those they manage to perform to their highest potential.

NEPA: A Hard Look Before You Leap

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service — June-November 2020
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Instructor: Scott Blackburn

This six-session virtual training introduces participants to the basic National Environmental Policy Act Training.

Federal Activities and the Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act

National Conservation Training Center — March 2020
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Instructors: Jane Ledwin, Kevin Foster, Felix Lopez, Dave Walther, and Amy Wing

This course familiarizes participants with the Service's responsibilities and opportunities under the Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act. Course content focuses on the relationship of the FWCA to other legislation, the types of assistance the Service provides, standard formats for FWCA reports and methods for developing project costs, cooperative agreements and project recommendations.

Inspiring Leadership Through Emotional Intelligence

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service — August 2019
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Instructor: Mary Hughes

This in-depth and experiential course based on the Six Seconds EQ™ model helps increase mastery of emotional intelligence to further develop leadership effectiveness and gain new tools to apply immediately in the workplace.

Leading at the Speed of Trust

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service — August 2019
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Instructor: Mary Hughes

This course focuses on the Speed of Trust Transformation Process™ and drives a scalable, simple methodology that easily guides individuals, leaders, and organizations to become explicit and deliberate about creating a high-trust, highly-engaged culture focused on results.

Collaboration and Conflict Transformation in Multi-Party Processes

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service — June 2019
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Instructors: Kevin Connally and Ashley Fortune

This course focuses on conflict transformation, which encompasses managing and resolving conflict by harnessing the energy inherent in conflicts to motivate change and improvement not only of the decision but also of the institutions and platforms for implementation. Distinct from workplace interpersonal conflict, this course focuses on working with conflict in the context of a collaborative decision process. Presentations, case studies, and discussions were integrated with practical group exercises to target skill-building in conflict transformation. 

Civil Treatment for Employees

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service — February 2019
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Instructor: Michelle Bowden

This award-winning flagship training program is designed to help organizations prevent, detect, and correct inappropriate behaviors and build productive, inclusive cultures. Civil Treatment is a series of training and learning courses with tracks for leaders and employees.​

Crucial Conversations Training

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service — May 2018
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Instructors: Chris Logan, Sarah Gray, and Michelle Bowden

In this two-day training, participants learn skills that enable them to create conditions where they and others can speak with complete candor and respect. Throughout the training, participants will have the opportunity to apply Crucial Conversations​ principles and skills to real life challenges they may be facing.

Migratory Bird Treaty Act Training

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service — April 2018
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Instructors: Mike Green and Mandy Lawrence

In this two-day training, participants learn about the Migratory Bird Treaty Act and its applicability in current conservation policy and management discussions and decision-making.

Project Management Essentials

South Puget Sound Community College — November 2017
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Instructors: Dave Pratt

This two-day course addresses the nuts and bolts of project management essentials for anyone charged with leading a project team to successful completion. Participants will discuss theoretical fundamentals as well as participate in hands-on activities that will help them to plan and execute projects on time, stay on budget, and work with maximum efficiency.

Habitat Conservation Planning for Endangered Species

National Conservation Training Center — October 2017
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Instructors: Marty Tuegel, Trish Adams, David Dell, Linus Chen, and David Zippin

This course addresses the basic steps and processes regarding Habitat Conservation Planning under Section 10(a)(1)(B) of the Endangered Species Act.

Interagency Consultation for Endangered Species

National Conservation Training Center — October 2017
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Instructors: Rosalie del Rosario, Jerry Ziewitz, and Marit Alanen

In this course, participants acquires basic information on conducting interagency consultation under Section 7 of the Endangered Species Act. Key information needs and procedures are addressed, with a focus on the information needs related to biological assessments and biological opinions.

Restoration Policy, Planning, and Partnering

National Conservation Training Center — July 2017
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Instructors: CalLee Davenport, Paula Golightly, Al Rizzo, and Steve Traxler 

This course provides restoration practitioners a foundation in restoration policy and planning, covering the Federal authorities for restoration; compliance requirements, including the National Environmental Policy Act; general principles of restoration science; and, the steps involved in developing a restoration plan within the context of landscape-scale conservation and climate change. Case studies exemplified building partnerships and other key concepts of the course.

USFWS Foundations: Discover Your Service!

National Conservation Training Center — April 2017
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Instructors: Janelle Quinn and Jaime Brown 

The main focus of this course is to provide skills for working with others to accomplish the mission of the Service. This course provided an introduction to public service and the Service's organization, an overview of Service related legislated mandates, Service and conservation history, and foundations in valuing diversity, communication, conflict resolution and group dynamics. Views of the Service were also provided by corporate partners, Service leadership, and other bureaus within the Department of Interior.

General Civil Mediation Training

Michigan State University College of Law — August 2016
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Instructor: Brian A. Pappas, Ph.D., LL.M., J.D., M.P.P.

This 3-credit course discussed mediator roles, orientations, styles, legal issues in mediation, mediator certification and ethics, mediators and lawyers, the institutionalization of mediation, and the use of mediation in different contexts. This course met the training requirement of MCR 2.411 for those interested in serving as rostered civil mediators.

Great Lakes Emerging Leader Program

Great Lakes Leadership Academy —  April-October 2015

Primary Instructors: Vicki Pontz and Frank Ruswick

A seven-month program of individual and organizational leadership skills development, which was composed of real-world team projects, practical leadership and decision-making lessons, and a network of professional individuals and organizations to share ideas and create solutions.

Conservation Leaders for Tomorrow Program

Max McGraw Wildlife Foundation — January 2014
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This four-day professional development program focused on improving hunter awareness and conservation education among new hunters. Each program participant completed their hunter safety education and received their hunting license. The program culminated in a guided pheasant hunt.

Executive Media Training

Ready for Media — October 2013

Instructor: Anne Ready
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This two-day training aimed to improve confidence and communication abilities among graduate student researchers through interview coaching, video feedback, and constructive critique. Anne Ready, screenwriter and author of Off the Cuff: What to Say At a Moment's Notice, coordinated the training.