 MAT offers a range of courses online as the centerpiece of the State Fish and Wildlife Agencies Leadership Development Toolbox. MAT uses instuctor-led, asynchrous online learning. These courses are highly interactive, challenging, and content rich.
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MAT now offers several of its leadership development courses online. What is online learning? For one, it IS NOT computer-based training. Rather, MAT has developed its courses using an interactive, instructor-led approach. These are challenging courses that are also fun and interesting. The courses are asynchronous, meaning you will not meet with your class at specific times. You work on your own schedule, from any location with an Internet accessible computer. Of course there are deadlines, and you will need to keep up with the weekly work in the class, but if you prefer to work at 3:00 p.m. or 3 a.m. it does not matter. The courses center around online discussions forums, so you will interact with your classmates.
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MAT runs online courses on a quarterly basis. Courses start on the second Monday of each January, April, July, October. Individuals taking a MAT online course the first time are required to take the self-paced Student Online Tutorial which opens one week before the regular course. The tutorial takes about an hour and can be completed at any time before the regular course begins.
MAT webinars may not run concurrent with the online course schedule. Times and dates for each session will be posted on the product page for that particular webinar. The Management Assistance Team (MAT) only charges for fees directly paid by us to our vendors. These fees include, but are not limited to student technology fees from our vendor eCollege and copyrighted materials and/or books purchased for the participant that are required for the satisfactory completion of the course. Invoices will be emailed to students during the first week of the course. A participant may drop a course in which they are currently enrolled in on or before the first day of the student tutorial without charge. If you do not notify us before the drop deadline that you are withdrawing from a course you will be charged for all fees and materials. |
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You gave us feedback and we listened – Introducing the totally new, completely redesigned Creative and Critical Thinking 2nd Edition, now being offered as a three part, live and interactive webinar series to state fish and wildlife employees. This new webinar platform is an additional delivery vehicle for us and there is no cost during the beta testing phase of this course (Modest Instructor fees will apply once beta testing is complete.) |
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6-weeks ($63 registration and $9.55 for materials)
In today’s world many lust after power, but what would you guess enables leaders to get power and keep it? And why do some people choose to be powerless with a victim mentality? These are only a couple of the questions that are answered in this timely and relative course for developing leaders with lasting power to influence and make a difference. |
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6-weeks ($63 registration)
Leadership, management, and supervision are topics that are easily confused and often have different meanings to different people. The online course “Leader as Supervisor” looks at the convergence of these three concepts and provides practical approaches so that supervisors can more effectively manage their programs and exercise leadership at the same time. One of the courses basic principles is that it is best to manage systems, not people. How can a supervisor be most effective functioning in this paradigm? Supervisors will be most effective by understanding and practicing leadership.
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4-weeks ($44 Registration fee and $9.55 for materials)
This four week online course focuses on increasing your leadership effectiveness by learning about the innocuous sounding but really powerful tool of visioning. It is a tool which can be used for any effort on any playing field. Effective leaders are able to envision where the organization or subunit needs to go and communicate it to everyone else clearly and consistently.
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6-weeks ($63 registration and $9.55 for materials)
This online course is based on works by Ron Heifitz and Marty Linsky of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. In this course you will learn to define adaptive leadership and distinguish leadership from authority. Students will be able to apply principles of adaptive leadership and learn how to lead both with and without authority. This course is designed to help you determine the differences between adaptive problems and technical problems and the importance of addressing each type of problem differently. |
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4-weeks ($44 registration and $9.72 for materials. No book)
Did you ever feel that if you could just rise up like a helicopter out of the work trenches, high enough, you’d be able to see how everything fits or how to fix problems within your agency? Gaining this virtual altitude is now possible and without the jarring inconvenience of a helicopter!
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