The course encourages participants to challenge their views on cultural and wilderness stewardship, identify the common ground, and work together to solve complex issues.
This workshop provides an introduction to Integrated Pest Management, with special emphasis on pest issues in parks located in the Northern Rockies.
This workshop introduces students to beginning preservation engineering concepts for historic wood structures.
This workshop combines classroom and hands-on field work to give trainees an effective introduction to pre-contact masonry preservation, with special emphasis on preservation at archaeological sites.
Trainees will build on science foundations for preserving wood windows and focus on lead safety, joinery, dutchman repairs, and fabrication of rails, stiles, and muntins.
This hands-on workshop will introduce participants to the basics of wood window preservation, including documentation, stripping, scraping and sanding, back-bedding and glazing, and painting.
BEST Preservation Workshops will cover historic resources that occur nation-wide and continue to use the Vanishing Treasures curriculum to share problem-based and hands-on learning.
FriYAY is a podcast and webinar series that covers a variety of topics spanning practical things like how to stay motivated, ways to expand your creativity, connect with others, and tips to keep you grounded!
Interested in the Aspiring Leader Development Program? Learn more about the program in one of the many upcoming informational webinars!
Learn about the steps Albright Training Center is taking to ensure students' safety and wellbeing due to COVID-19. In this post, you will find FAQs and additional information about the program.
This 1-hour interactive webinar provides on-boarding resources new NPS employees need to be successful in their new NPS career.
We are happy to announce the new dates for the Welcome New NPS Employees! webinar, a 1-hour, interactive session on on-boarding and new employee resources.
This webinar touches on five essentials you need to know for facilitating an effective and engaging virtual meeting.
Use this toolkit to help host structured conversations with your team members; the conversation prompts and facilitation resources can help you create an environment of respect, inclusion, and safety.​Â
Pulse surveys are intentionally designed to provide quick, actionable insights into the health of a park or program, hence the name ‘pulse.’
This page is designed to empower you with resources curated by a diverse group of Employee Learning & Development staff members from across the service to support you in being either a mentor, mentee, or both!
This resource provides mentors/mentees with an agreement template. This agreement lays out the goals of a mentoring relationship and establishes boundaries.
A resource book for people looking to be mentored and to prepare for a mentor relationship. A menttee recieves the benefit of mentoring.
This resource book is for people looking to be a better mentor and to prepare for a mentorship relationship.
The Office of Personnel Management training wiki is an excellent resource on formal and informal mentoring programs.
Meeting your mentor can be an exciting event. Here are some tips to keep in mind, for both before and during your first meeting.
When becoming a mentor, it is important to understand your role and duties. Check out some ideas from the Facilities Management Leadership Program that can be helpful to any mentor.
Two of the most important parts of a mentor/mentee relationship is giving and receiving feedback. The Facility Manager Leader Program provides some good advice to keep in mind when doing both.
If you find a mentor relationship becoming stale or unfocused don't write it off immediately. Try asking some of the questions here to reinvigorate your relationship!
Use this worksheet to identify what you expect to gain from your mentor relationships; after completing the worksheet, you will be able to communicate more effectively with your mentors.