Workshops

This 5-day workshop provides an in-depth introduction to leadership built around multiple themes: leadership differs from position, leadership occurs at all levels of an organization, anyone can develop and exhibit excellent leadership behaviors, each individual has a unique style of leading, and understanding one’s inherent preferences for interacting with others, processing information, making decisions and approaching tasks helps to develop the self-awareness and self-confidence to lead. 
Content of the workshop includes:

     - In-depth exploration and application of Myers-Briggs

       Psychological Type as a basis for understanding

       personal preferences for interacting with others, processing

       information, making decisions and approaching tasks

       (including strategies for effective communication and

       leadership when your preferences differ from those of others)
     - Introduction to models of leadership and their applicability to the natural resources context
     - Leadership as a relationship; mentoring
     - Decision making, dealing with change
     - Leadership and effective teams
     - Generational change in the workplace

Tuition: $1,195 (includes 2 books, course notebook, personalized Myers-Briggs report. Offered one or more times per year at a different locations, or on demand at a location of the client’s choice. Anyone can host this workshop by providing a suitable training room and committing to sending enough participants to the workshop to ensure a viable workshop. To host this course, contact Dr. McMullin.

Co-instructor: Joel Holtrop, Retired Deputy Chief, National Forest System, USDA Forest Service.

Next scheduled offering:  October 30-November 3, 2023, Silver City, NM
                                               
To enroll in this workshop: send an email to mcmullintraining@gmail.com with the subject line, Enroll in LNRC Silver City. Please include your full name and contact information in the body of the email message.

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Cancellation/refund policy: Participants whose tuition has been paid and then drop out of the class will be eligible for a refund of tuition minus $200 to cover costs incurred by the provider unless they find a substitute to take their place in the workshop.

This 3-day workshop provides in-depth, individualized development of leadership skills based on feedback from two widely used assessment tools: the DRiV assessment, and the Leadership Practices Inventory (LPI; a 360-degree assessment of leadership behaviors). Participants construct a detailed leadership development plan throughout the workshop. 
Content of the workshop includes:         
    - Presentation of the DRiV model and interpretation of individual results on 

      the instrument that assesses factors that drive or drain you.

    - Interpretation of feedback from the LPI, including strategies for improving participants’ abilities to model the way,
      inspire a shared vision, empower others, challenge the process, and encourage the heart.

Tuition: $1,195 (includes 2 books, course notebook, personalized DRiV report, personalized Leadership Practices Inventory 360-degree leadership assessment.

Next offering: Spring 2024 (date and location TBD soon)

To enroll in this workshop: Send email to mcmullintraining@gmail.com with Enroll ALNRC in the subject line. Include full contact information in the body of the message.

The in-person version of this workshop can be taught in 1-day or 2-day format. The course develops skills natural resource professionals need to communicate technical information in language that nontechnical audiences can understand.  The workshop focuses on writing technical reports (including NEPA documents) in direct, concise, and simple language without losing important meaning and context.
Content of the workshop includes:
     - Identifying the purpose of your writing
     - Writing to support critical decisions
     - Organizing your document
     - How to make your writing more interesting and shorten your documents by up to 30%
     - How to make your writing less dense (using language that stakeholders understand)

Tuition: 2-day workshop--$515 if paid with credit card, $495 if tuition for groups of participants is paid as a group training (includes one book, course notebook); 1-day workshop--$395 if paid with credit card, $375 if paid as a group training. Participants should bring a laptop computer and one or more technical documents they have written or are writing to work on in class. Offered upon request at a location of the client's choice (minimum of 15 participants).

Virtual PSCW Workshops: The virtual version of PSCW consists of three 2-hour webinar sessions with approximately one hour of assignments to practice what you learn after each session. Tuition is $275/person if paid with a credit card and $250/participant if paid as a group training (minimum of 20 participants).

Next scheduled offerings: October 3, 5, & 10, 2023

                                      November 7, 9, & 14, 2023

To enroll, send email to mcmullintraiining@gmail.com with Enroll PSCW  in the subject line. Include full contact information and indicate which session you prefer in the body of the message.

To request an offering of this workshop: This workshop must be hosted. The hosting unit must provide a suitable training room and commit to sending at least 15 participants to the workshop. The host unit may collaborate with a nearby unit to provide the minimum number of participants or agree to opening enrollment from other interested participants. To host, send an email to mcmullintraining@gmail.com with the name and location of the group desiring the training.  Please include your full name and contact information in the body of the email message.

 

​This workshop builds on the concepts and techniques presented in Plain, Simple, and Concise Writing to help natural resource professionals write more clearly, concisely, and effectively.  The principles and techniques taught apply to writing any kind of document, from technical reports (including NEPA and ESA documents) to briefings, proposals, and public outreach documents in direct, concise and simple language without losing important meaning and context. Participants in this workshop should have previously taken Plain, Simple, and Concise Writing. Part 2 briefly reviews key concepts from the first workshop and then focuses on personal coaching of participants to help them become more efficient at revising existing documents and writing new documents. 

Workshop format and time commitment:
- One 2 to 3-hour webinar session
- 2-3 hours effort by each participant to revise an excerpt (300-500 words) of a document he/she has written.

  Instructors will provide personalized editorial comments on the revised document excerpt.
- One 30-minute personal video conference call with one or both instructors to discuss strategies for addressing issues

  noted in the document review and to improve the participant’s ability to implement the principles and techniques

  learned in the workshop.

Tuition: $275 if paid with credit card, $250 if tuition for groups of participants is paid as a group training.

​Next scheduled offerings: To be determined. Monitor this page or contact Dr. McMullin

 

    - How to give more effective presentations and avoid "Death by PowerPoint"
     
Tuition: $995 (includes 2 books, course notebook)
Offered once per year at a different predetermined location or on demand at a location of the client's choice.

Co-instructor: Dr. Ben West, MBSH Consulting
​
Next scheduled offering: Monitor this web page or call

To request an offering of this workshop:
send an email to mcmullintraining@gmail.com with the name and location of the group desiring the training.  Please include your full name and contact information in the body of the email message.

 

Understanding Yourself and Working with Others (UYWO)

This 2-day workshop provides an in-depth introduction to Myers-Briggs Psychological Type as a leadership and communications tool with application to effective teamwork, dealing with change, or conflict resolution (each workshop includes one of these three topics in addition to Myers-Briggs Psychological Type). 

Content of the workshop includes:
    - In-depth exploration and application of Myers-Briggs Psychological Type as a basis for understanding personal

      preferences for interacting with others, processing information, making decisions and approaching tasks

      (including strategies for effective communication and leadership when your preferences differ from those of
      others), plus one of the following topics:
    - Application of Myers-Briggs Psychological Type to effective teamwork, or
    - Assessment of style for dealing with change with correlation to Myers-Briggs type, or
    - Assessment of preferred style for dealing with conflict, with correlation to Myers-Briggs type


Tuition: $350 (includes one book, course notebook, personalized Myers-Briggs report, conflict style or change style assessment if used in the workshop).  Offered upon request at a location of the client’s choice (minimum of 12 participants). 

To request an offering of this workshop:
send an email to mcmullintraining@gmail.com with the name and location of the group desiring the training.  Please include your full name and contact information in the body of the email message.