Registration is open for MAT's Fall Online Courses and Webinars

Fall registration is now OPEN and AFWA's Management Assistance Team (MAT) is excited about how the term is shaping up. We're pleased to welcome Dr. Hugh O'Doherty of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government to our national faculty, as he facilitates one of our newest and most highly anticipated online courses, Conflict.   Also debuting this term, Eyewitness to Leadership: Examining  Adaptive Leadership Though Turning Points in History, will take students on a journey in search of leadership lessons from those who navigated some of history's most pivotal moments.    This term will also feature the return of one of our most in-demand courses, The Adaptive Leader I, which has been fully revised and updated to better meet the needs of our state agency students and their partners.   Space is limited and classes fill fast so register now! Fall Online Courses and Webinars Will Include: (Click the course icon for more info)         The Adaptive Leader I 6-Week Online Course Leadership is an improvisational art that requires experimenting using smart risks.One of MAT's most in-demand courses, Adaptive Leader I explores the principles of Adaptive LeadershipTM as described by Ron Heifetz and Marty Linsky of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. This course is designed to introduce students to new, groundbreaking concepts in leadership.         Conflict   6-Week Online Course MAT is pleased to announce its newest leadership course "Conflict."  Hugh O'Doherty, lecturer at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard and consultant with Cambridge Leadership Associates shares his varied experiences and personal knowledge of conflict management  from the world's stage. In this course, Mr. O'Doherty will  introduce you to the theories and neuroscience associated with conflict development and provide tools for conflict management.      Eyewitness to Leadership: Examining Adaptive Leadership Through Turning Points in History 6-Week Online Course History is an ever-present teacher. Eyewitness to Leadership: Examining Adaptive Leadership Through Turning Points in History is designed to enhance and deepen participant understanding of adaptive leadership by bringing the concepts to life through the examination of historical turning points. Through a combination of documentary videos, movies, on-line discussion, reading, analysis, self-study, critical thinking, and writing, participants will "witness" the exercise of adaptive leadership through events that turned history and shaped the present. This course has a prerequisite. Please see full course description for details.          Going from Good to Great 4-week Online Course Why do some companies have continuing, sustained growth in excess of those companies around them? What is it that makes them different? There are no silver bullets in leading an agency from good to great. But there are some commonalities of great companies. Lively discussions will focus around these concepts researched by Jim Collins in his best-selling book, Good to Great.   Leader as Communicator  4-week Online Course     Leader as Communicator will help state fish and wildlife agency participants understand and value communication as a tool of leadership. Applying the techniques in this course can help to create a culture of communication in their organization that changes how people talk with one another, develop presentations, gather input, address challenges and make commitments that get results in changing times.    Problem Solving and Decision Making 2-hour Webinar  This one session, two hour webinar delves deep into the incredibly important skill sets associated with effective and efficient decision-making and problem-solving. MAT will be offering 2 sessions of Problem Solving, one on August 26th and another on August 28th, both from 2pm to 4PM ET.  Visionary Leadership 6-week Online Course This six week online course focuses on increasing your leadership effectiveness by learning about the powerful tool of Visioning. The material will start you on a journey of practicing visionary leadership....a game-changer for you personally, your agency and potentially the whole world.

Some important information about Fall Registration: Like Summer 2014, Fall courses will be conducted free of charge! Although we have been diligent about designing both the new system and our new and revised courses, we know that you are still test driving the system. We would appreciate your feedback about the system through a survey we will circulate at the end of the term. If you have not created an account with our new learning management system HERE, you will need to do so to register for courses. This applies to all students, even returning MAT students, unless you created an account for Summer 2014 or AFTER June 1st, 2014.  MAT also has a brand new website for 2014, so if you have problems accessing any matteam.org links, please clear your web browsers cache and cookies.  Have a question about registration? Contact Amanda Myers at amandam@matteam.org or 304-876-7797