401: Collaboration Skills for Environmental Professionals Why take this training? To work more effectively and efficiently, federal agencies and others recognize the need to develop collaboration competencies at all levels. This training facilitates staff in acquiring advanced skills in collaboration; multi-party negotiation; conflict prevention, management and resolution; meeting facilitation; and alternative dispute resolution. What will you...

Agenda Wednesday, June 15 8:00 amRegistration and Morning Refreshments 9:00 amOpening Remarks Doug Young, Chief Information Officer, State of Missouri 9:15 amOpening Keynote Open Roads Open Minds: An Exploration of Creative Problem Solving Steve Uzzell, Renowned Photographer Steve Uzzell is a veteran National Geographic photographer and one of the nation's leading corporate photographers. Steve's award-winning approach to his photographic w...

Join us for this Continuous Learning Point (CLP) course and learn about the AbilityOne Program while earning CLP credit! This course provides and overview of the AbilityOne Program, describing how it fulfills customer needs for products and services while meeting its goal of generating jobs for individuals who are blind or have other severe disabilities. The course will also provide information on how to purchase SKILCRAFT® and other Abili...

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...

"Adapting for a Secure Tomorrow" The Environment, Energy Security, and Sustainability Symposium and Exhibition (E2S2) provides an opportunity to share ideas on how to improve energy, environmental and sustainability management throughout DoD, the Services and other federal agencies. This year we have invited administration senior leaders from the White House, DoD, DoE, EPA and the Services to present, in the plenary session, their organization...