301: Facilitation Fundamentals Why take this training? Many agencies now recognize the need to develop in-house facilitators to deal with many of their collaborative projects and environmental disputes. Becoming an effective facilitator requires experience with environmental conflict situations, skill in organizing, and artful management of group dynamics. This course is ideal for those responsible for planning projects, convening meetings, an...

110: Negotiating Environmental Solutions Why take this training? People often enter negotiations armed with emotionally-charged positions defining what they want. This posturing of parties creates an adversarial relationship that is hard to move past. Interest-based negotiation teaches the skills needed to identify underlying interests, and to develop a protocol that enables all parties to get their needs met simultaneously. Interest-based neg...

The CMMI® was developed in cooperation with commercial and defense industry, the U.S. Department of Defense, and the Software Engineering Institute and has become the de facto standard for integrated process improvement across multiple disciplines and areas of interest within commercial and defense industry, and governments, worldwide. This conference addresses all categories of users and applications and seeks to help provide a better und...

The APHA Annual Meeting & Exposition is the premier Public Health Educational Forum! Learn from the experts in the field, hear about cutting edge research and exceptional best practices, discover the latest public health products and services, and share your public health experience with your peers. The world of public health is in continual motion, and there is no better way to stay abreast of the research and learn about emerging issues....

Mark Your Calendar to be a Part of AUVSI’s Unmanned Systems North America 2010 AUVSI’s Unmanned Systems North America 2010 is the premiere forum for reviewing, assessing and discussing the successes and shortcomings of current unmanned systems. The conference, with an expected record turnout, will bring together the key leaders and decision-makers in the industry. Officials from government and user organizations around the world wi...