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## Communications Courses

These courses build the skills needed to effectively serve as the face and voice of the Service. Emphasis is placed on written, oral, and digital communication skills and tools.

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Writing with Clarity

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and other DOI employees who are responsible for writing technical, regulatory, or planning documents.

When asked about their writing process, the most common description people give is "it takes me a while to get started...

Scientific Writing for Publication - Online

This course is intended for early and mid-career researchers and biologists.

Scientific writing and publishing are essential to advancing knowledge and practice in all fields, but prospective authors face substantial challenges. When training and...

Science Communication: Crafting Your Message

Biologists, project managers, or anyone who needs to communicate about science.

This interactive online class will help you share what you do, what you know, and most importantly, why it matters in clear, lively terms. Grounded in the latest research...

National FWS Communications Workshop

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service External Affairs employees and others within the Service whose primary role is communications work.

This course focuses on the multi-disciplinary work of public affairs, tribal relations, congressional outreach, and...

Keys to Effective Editing

Supervisors in the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service or in other DOI agencies who are responsible for reviewing technical documents written by their staff.

Supervisors in conservation agencies wear lots of different hats. While "writing instructor" may...

Designing and Delivering Effective Webinars

Department of the Interior employees with little to moderate experience in designing and delivering webinars.

Providing effective webinars is more than just lecturing with PowerPoint slides. Effective webinars require a good design that includes a...

Customer Experience Improvement Process

Those wanting to improve the customer experience at a refuge, hatchery, field station, or office. The activities in the class are to be done as a team and not individually. So before starting the course, you'll first need to gather a cross-functional team composed of individuals...

Critical Writing/Critical Thinking

Individuals who are competent in basic writing skills but interested in strengthening their ability to communicate through their government writing and technical staff who want to construct more compelling, logical, and persuasive arguments and whose job it is to write or review...

Communicating Science: Distilling Your Message

Open only to U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service employees. Recommended for ologists (e.g., archeologists, biologists, geologists, hydrologists, etc.), field supervisors, project leaders, and others who communicate the scientific work of the Service to a variety of audiences -...

Congressional Operations Seminar

Open only to U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service employees, specifically those who deal with Congressional offices and their staffs or those who, as part of their jobs, need to understand how Congress operates.

The Congressional Operations Seminar provides...

An Introduction to Preserving and Interpreting the Heritage of the US Fish and Wildlife Service - Online

External Affairs, Visitor Services, Friends, Public facing administrative, wage-grade, and law enforcement officers, Interested FWS employees, Friends members, and contracted EE providers.

Offers USFWS employees a foundation in the agency'...

## Seminar Calendar

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Critical Writing/Critical Thinking

Jun 3, 2024 8:00 amJun 7, 2024 12:00 pm (MDT)

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Critical Writing/Critical Thinking

Jul 22, 2024 8:00 amJul 26, 2024 12:00 pm (EDT)

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Writing with Clarity

Aug 19, 2024 12:30 pmAug 22, 2024 4:30 pm (EDT)

Working with others to conserve, protect and enhance fish, wildlife, plants and their habitats for the continuing benefit of the American people.

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