Description MAT's lead in research and development in the area of organizational change and effectiveness over the last six years continues to provide the fish and wildlife profession with tools and consulting expertise in the area of workforce diversity. For Planning and Conducting a Cultural Audit in Fish and Wildlife Agencies. CAP is essentially a planning process guidebook for conducting an agency cultural assessment. The CAP is designed in ten sequential steps to help an agency identify areas of misalignment which may exist between where the agency has decided to go and where the employees of the agency are with respect to it. In addition to the CAP Model User's Guide , a number of reprints of published, professional papers, videos, and direct consultation are available within the umbrella of this educational package.
Description Making meetings effective and efficient requires using new approaches.
It demands skills and time from the person who serves as chair and often requires using a trained meeting facilitator. Through its two-course package on effective meetings, the Management Assistance Team assists state fish and wildlife agencies in developing those skills. These courses are aimed primarily at enhancing working meetings with limited attendance, but the skills they teach also are applicable to public involvement efforts. Both courses are intense learning experiences offered, where possible, in retreat settings to minimize distractions. They are the product of a serious development effort that has taken them through multiple revisions since 1991.