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Learn how the US Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, National Park Service, state agencies, private landowners, educational institutions and community organizations came together to connect area youth to their heritage with Jeremiah Martinez, Supervisory Natural Resource Specialist, Recreation, Conejos Peak Ranger District, CO, USFS.
Explore an evaluators insights into Wicked Problems and the Theory of Change with Matthew Birnbaum, Ph.D., Instructor, Partnership and Community Collaboration Academy. Lean how to apply these evaluation concepts to the goals and objectives of conservation partnerships.
Review how logic models are used as evaluation planning, implementation, and assessment tools for conservation with Matthew Birnbaum, Ph.D., Instructor, Partnership and Community Collaboration Academy.
Learn more about the methodology of evaluation and the importance of validity, usefulness, feasibility and distribution. Discover what criteria to use in rating an evaluation plan with Matthew Birnbaum, Ph.D., Instructor, Partnership and Community Collaboration Academy.
Practical Tips with Matthew Birnbaum, Ph.D., Instructor, Partnership and Community Collaboration Academy, provides useful insights on evaluation capacity building through internal and/or third-party evaluation expertise.
The Ladder of Inference helps us recognize how our perceptions and assumptions can affect our beliefs and actions. It reminds us to pause and check in, make our assumptions explicit, and take the time to explore everyone else's. The Ladder of Inference is an example of cognitive bias and was developed by organizational psychologist Chris Argyris and used by Pete Senge in his book, The Fifth Discipline. Learn more with Susan Goodwin, Collaboration and Conflict Management Specialist, DOI Office of Collaborative Action and Dispute Resolution.
Public service requires public input. This overview of the Paperwork Reduction Act provides a framework for working with your agency Information Collection Officer and OMB to find or collect the information needed to support a federal agency's decision making. Learn more about the PRA with Wolf Cata, National Information Collections Officer, USFS.
Competing community interests related to water access, use, and conservation sets the stage for the Edwards Aquifer Recovery Implementation Plan. Discover the practices used to support stakeholder collaboration. Learn more about how water law, hydrology, drought of record, threatened and endangered species and stakeholder analysis provided a context for community discussion with Kevin Connally, Fish and Wildlife Biologist, Washington State Office, USFWS.
Facilitation has been called "a state of mind and a set of skills." When you step into the role of facilitator, your primary focus shifts from the "what" to the "how" as you take on some new responsibilities for group's communication. Explore the role, responsibilities, and practices found in a facilitator's toolkit with Anne Desmarais, Assistant Director, Partnership and Community Collaboration Academy.
An Action Agenda provides a visual script to get your players across the stage in achieving the goals of collaboration. Understand how to translate individual task and time commitments into an overall budget and cost-benefit analysis of a collaborative undertaking using an Action Agenda Matrix with Cate Bradley, MLA, Ph.D., Landscape Architect, RTCA, NPS.
Mapping the decision-making space early in the formation of a collaborative helps manage expectations, define roles, and inform the scope and scale of community collaboration. Learn more about how to define the decision-making space of a collaborative enterprise with Joy Lujan, Community Planner, RTCA, NPS.
A stakeholder analysis identifies the individuals and organizations that can impact or be impacted by the goals, objectives, and strategies of a collaborative project. Learn more about the frameworks of stakeholder identification with Joy Lujan, Community Planner, RTCA, NPS.
Obstacles to effective collaboration sometimes show up before we even begin to work together. Those obstacles are often based on our implicit, sometimes unconscious assumptions, and biases. Learn how to use observation, active listening, understanding, and compassion to break through those barriers with Joy Lujan, Community Planner, RTCA, NPS.
Learn about the use and management of FACA committees and their role in advising federal agencies and/or the President. Consider if your community collaboration outreach meets FACA criteria. Explore four alternatives to FACA management for community engagement with Karen Simms, Assistant Field Manager, Gila District, Tuscon FIeld Office, BLM.
Explore the process and practices associated with federal partnership agreements and how to build an internal network of support. Learn about how to align federal practices with the decision-makers of partners with Liz Madison, Director, Partnership and Community Collaboration Academy.
Private foundations contribute to the public good through their time, talent and treasure. But what exactly is a foundation, and how can a government agency work with them? Explore the organizational cultures of foundations with Anne Desmarais, Assistant Director, Partnership and Community Collaboration Academy.
As with any partnership, we need to consider the goodness of fit, when working with a private foundation. Learn how foundations differ in mission, geography and investment strategies and what practices may help you open the door to foundation representatives with Anne Desmarais, Assistant Director, Partnership and Community Collaboration Academy.
Learn about the four cornerstones of collaboration: vision, mission, goals, and roles with Cate Bradley, MLA, Ph.D., Landscape Architect, RTCA, NPS. Explore the impact of individual, interpersonal, and group dynamics on the collaborative process, and why it is worth going slow to go fast.
Discover the multiple dynamics in play when we collaborate with others. Learn more about the patterns that describe our own emotional reactions and the dynamics of group behavior with Joy Lujan, Community Planner, RTCA, NPS. Explore how we can tackle difficult situations by starting with ourselves.
Explore the communications tools used to persuade an individual or group of individuals to change their attitude(s) or behavior(s). Learn more about techniques to establish credibility, frame common ground, provide evidence and connect emotionally with Liz Madison, Director, Partnership and Community Collaboration Academy.
Professionals build and foster networks to gather information and insights beyond their own thinking or that of their organization. Working internally or externally, the practice of this networking skill is referred to as political savvy. Learn more about the practices of an individual who is politically savvy with Liz Madison, Director, Partnership and Community Collaboration Academy.
Service First operations support inter-agency collaboration throughout the nation. Consider the range of possibilities in leveraging the personnel and resources of federal agencies working together with Shane Hershman, Administrative Officer, Montana State Office, BLM.
Gain insights from DeEtte Stofleth, Lead Grants Management Specialists, Colville, Mt.Baker-Snoqualmie, Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forests, USFS on developing a Service First Interagency Agreement. Learn the jargon related to managing the budgets and personnel associated with these agreements and pick up some project management tips to manage Service First operations.
Recognize how our behaviors, perceptions and assumptions can contribute to conflict. Learn to recognize emotionality, and what communication skills can help you through a difficult conversation. Explore alternative strategies for responding to conflict and negotiating an agreement with Susan Goodwin, Collaboration and Conflict Management Specialist, DOI Office of Collaborative Action and Dispute Resolution.
Learn how to distinguish between the seven different faces of philanthropy and partnership with Liz Madison, Director, Partnership and Community Collaboration Academy. Discover the role each persona might play in supporting a partnership or stakeholder engagement. Learn how to increase the effectiveness of your community collaboration.
Learn how to distinguish between the seven different faces of philanthropy and partnership with Liz Madison, Director, Partnership and Community Collaboration Academy. Discover the role each persona might play in supporting a partnership or stakeholder engagement. Learn how to increase the effectiveness of your community collaboration.
Recognize the development of new products, services, and ways of working in partnership as entrepreneurial actions. Dive into risk-assessment and learn more about the four strategies for managing the risk associated with partnership-driven activities with Liz Madison, Director, Partnership and Community Collaboration Academy.
The Elkhorn Ranchlands of North Dakota are known as The Cradle of Conservation. Here Theodore Roosevelt developed his views on the importance of conservation to the nation. Learn how Roosevelt's conservation legacy drew the conservation community together in 2007 with the goal to preserve the viewshed of Roosevelt's Elkhorn Ranch with Liz Madison, Director, Partnership and Community Collaboration Academy.
Is compromise a win-win for both parties? In the Story of the Orange discover the difference between Interest and Positions and the difference between compromise and collaboration with Denis Desmarais, Instructor, Partnership and Community Collaboration Academy.
Leveraging Partnerships is about building and supporting teamwork. Explore the defining characteristics of a well-functioning team: purpose, participation, commitment, results-oriented, candor, recognition, and trust with Liz Madison, Director, Partnership and Community Collaboration Academy.
Increase your understanding of how nonprofit representatives use the term "fundraising" to mean a variety of activities that differ from the Federal Ethics definition of fundraising. Learn more about how federal employees might support identifying, informing, involving and recognizing philanthropic partners with Liz Madison, Director, Partnership and Community Collaboration Academy.
Partnerships evolve and mature like the life-cycle of a butterfly. Examine the Vision and Concept Stages of the partnership caterpillar. Create a firm foundation during the Research and Development and Implementation Planning Stages of the partnership chrysalis. Take flight with the Action and Evaluation and Recognition Stages of the partnership butterfly. Learn more about the Partnership Network Life-Cycle with Liz Madison, Director, Partnership and Community Collaboration Academy.
Discover how to prepare, participate and debrief from a negotiation. Explore the circumstances, behavior and outcomes of five negotiating styles. Improve your understanding of how to conduct an interest-based or principled negotiation. Consider the benefits of this negotiation technique to community collaboration and partnership management with Denis Desmarais, Instructor, Partnership and Community Collaboration Academy.
Explore the elements of accountability: effective controls, rules and responsibilities, time and budget, and monitoring and evaluation. Learn how to practice accountability with a focus on communication, teambuilding, troubleshooting, and learning with Liz Madison, Director, Partnership and Community Collaboration Academy.
Meetings are where we build trust, seek cooperation, solve-problems and celebrate success. Explore the best practices for making meetings work and learn how to avoid the pitfalls of planning and hosting a meeting with Liz Madison, Director, Partnership and Community Collaboration Academy.
Discover the four trends driving innovation in public agency operations. Hear the story of Golden Gate National Recreation Area, a model of 21st century public land management. Learn more about the professional skill set required to support a network of partnerships with Liz Madison, Director, Partnership and Community Collaboration Academy.