This resource will help you design curriculum-based materials and activities that can be posted on the NPS Educators Portal as a lesson plan.
The FM Workforce Development Guide outlines a self-initiated improvement program in which individuals have control over their own professional development.
In this video, Ed Muzio provides approaches to decision making and teaches his audience how to facilitate better group decisions to get better results.
A 2005 TEDGlobal talk about decision making, by Dan Gilbert.
In this interactive TED talk, Ruth Chang offers up a powerful new framework for shaping who we truly are.
Listen and learn why traditional rewards aren't always as effective as we think.
When is training appropriate? Learn how a simple rhyme can help you decide.
What is a learning organization and how do leaders create them and sustain them?
Build your skill of Framing Decisions and work toward improved Decisiveness.
Understanding bias can improve your decision making.
How to use meetings for the right reasons in order to avoid frustration and time wasting.
The five Executive Core Qualifications in building a federal corporate culture.
Create a "toolbox" of options when you learn various methods or processes for decisions.
Learn how to deploy decision strategies to help sort and structure your decisions.
OPM definitions and descriptions of leadership characteristics, behaviors, abilities, skills, and knowledge. A good resource for career advancement.
How do leaders inspire cooperation, trust and change? It all starts with the "Golden Circle."
Four simple steps to learning how to acquire a totally new skill.
Giving feedback is a skill but a much neglected skill is how to receive feedback.
NER Individual Development Plan information, forms and additional resources
Learn more about KSAs - what they are and how they relate to the hiring process.
This document supports the Digital Individual Development Plan Pilot sponsored by NER, NCR, and SER.
A worksheet to help you develop a good goal statement for strategic planning.
An IDP identifies an employee’s development goals in the context of NPS' Strategic Plan. The IDP Guide is an NPS-wide resource to help employees plan.
Development activities are strategies to gain knowledge, skills, or abilities. These are specific actions, relationships, tasks, or programs for employees.
This document supports the Digital Individual Development Plan Pilot and provides a step by step process to help you write IDP Learning Objectives.