Data to Decisions: Effective Scientific Advisory Panels Quick Start
FAC-103 · 4 HOURS
Help a technical panel move from what we know to what we should do.
Based on the instructor's Fisheries article of the same name.
Course purpose
Help a panel of scientists and technical experts cross from analysis to actionable recommendations, a step that does not come naturally to most subject-matter experts.
Why take it
Smart technical panels stall for predictable reasons. This course names four of them and gives leaders concrete strategies for each, starting with running meetings that decide rather than just talk.
You'll have the opportunity to
- Spot weak organization and work through it.
- Handle role conflict on a panel.
- Counter status quo bias.
- Work through ambiguity aversion.
- Run meetings that decide rather than just talk.
Your instructor
Michael Fraidenburg has taught with NWETC for over a decade and is known for his thoughtful approach. He is a Certified Mediator, an American Fisheries Society Certified Fisheries Professional and a Certified Virtual Facilitator.
He specializes in community, environmental, public policy, multi-party and science-intensive conflicts, and has taught facilitation skills for more than 20 years.
Course details
Anyone who staffs, chairs or facilitates advisory panels, working groups or interdisciplinary teams charged with producing recommendations.
- Four predictable impediments: weak organization, role conflict, status quo bias, ambiguity aversion
- Strategies for each impediment
- Meetings that decide rather than just talk
For live-stream Zoom courses, you will need a computer and a reliable internet connection. You may wish to have a way to take notes.
For in-person courses, please bring a pen or pencil and notepad if you would like to take notes.