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!

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!

Learn how to use the RBMS Point of Sale (POS) for collecting fees, managing passes, remitting and depositing collections, and running financial reports.

A list of all the learning activities that are required as part of the Historic Preservation Fundamentals Learning Series.

In this easy-to-read article by MindTools, discover how using the SMART tool can help provide focus, direction and motivation to accomplish your goals.

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.​ 

Pulse surveys are intentionally designed to provide quick, actionable insights into the health of a park or program, hence the name ‘pulse.’

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.

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.

These two resources provide mentors and mentees with an opportunity to evaluate their relationship.

Are you ready to become a mentee? Check out these questions and access additional resources to find out!

Learn how to ensure that your CLP profile indicates that you are interested in being a mentor or a mentee.

The following toolkit is intended to support parks/programs/teams in having the conversations necessary to make progress on difficult subjects such as racism, sexism, ableism, as well as other forms of oppression and privilege with staff. In our second century, The National Park Service must reckon with the ways our internal organization, systems, and cultures may

Find online trainings, webinars, and learning resources to help you enhance your knowledge and skills in Natural Resources and Science.

A more holistic examination of our shared history can help us better integrate knowledge into a new way of being and interacting together. Use these resources to learn more.

Find information about the NPS Fundamentals Program and resources to help you plan your visit during the residential training.

Graduate School USA offers virtual instructor-led and self-paced online courses that deliver high-quality training experiences, mapped to OPM proficiency levels and designed to prepare you to succeed.

The Cultural Resources Training Catalog for 2020, offering both in-person classroom and online courses for National Park Service employees

The NPS Fundamentals Residential program is designed for permanent employees who are within their first two years with the National Park Service.