Enrollment: This is a unit-funded course. A formal school request must be routed through your Force Development Office.

Schedule: 

Course length: 10 days

Schedule: Contact the coordinator, 865-336-3818 (DSN 336-3818) for dates and availability.

Reporting instructions: Sunday is a travel day. Report to billeting to check in and receive your welcome packet. This will provide report times, building and classroom number. Friday is a full day, so do not schedule flights prior to 4 p.m. EST. McGhee Tyson Air National Guard Base base is co-located with Knoxville International Airport. There are no base shuttles, but local taxi services are available to bring you base-side. Course instructors also have transportation and pickup from the airport available, but contact must be made prior to departing from your home.

Course length:  5 days

Credits: 2.8 Continuing Education Units (CEUs)

Course description: ANG PART is designed for public affairs practitioners of all ranks - PA Specialists, PAOs, and Executive Officers acting in the role of PAO. Skills covered include an interactive overview of communication planning, media operations, community engagement, and crisis communications, culminating in a Major Accident Response Exercise (MARE) which provides an opportunity to apply learned skills. Students will also receive instruction on PA functional management processes including DVIDS/AFPIMS, ethics, tours/static requests, social media, and MICT/Self-inspection. The final day of the course will include time with the Acting ANG PA Director and Career Field Manager/Functional Area Manager. Students will learn important career field updates and have time for Q&A.

Enrollment: Contact the Instructional development team through the "Contact" form on this web page.

Schedule: Case-by-case basis

Credits: Developed for some courses.

Description: TEC-U provides guidance and assistance to customers to help with their ability to instruct and develop courses/classes.  TEC-U also assist by converting their teaching materials into educationally sound lesson plans in order to maximize their educational potential.

Enrollment: Contact the Instructional development team through the "Contact" form on this web page.

Schedule: TBD

Course length: 2 hours

Credits: None

Description: Provides participants with tools and techniques to become better speakers. Helpful information will be presented in class to make leaders of today more comfortable in conducting briefings, speeches or any other type of presentation.

Schedule: Self-paced

Course length: 30 minutes

Credits: None

Description: Reviews Retired Army General and former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell's 18 Principles of Leadership—with reason and examples explaining each. 

Course Length: 2 hours

Credit: None

Description: An overview of time management strategies. From tracking our time spent on daily tasks to interruptions, this course will help students to re-gain control of the 24 hours we are given each day.

Course length: 2 hours 

Credits: None

Description: Teaches those in management positions how to properly write and review certain documents and other forms of professional communication. The primary focus is on the specifics of writing 1206's, Federal Award Citations, Memorandums and email communication. This is a two-hour course.

Course Length: 1 hour

Credit: None

Description: This lesson is designed for leaders to understand the strategies for growing personally and professionally and gives three sets of strategies to use to do so. These strategies can be used by personnel at all levels of the organization. They are particularly useful to more experienced leaders who may have developed ingrained ideas and habits that might need to be reassessed to improve their performance in the dynamic, rapidly changing environment today’s leaders face.

Course Length: 2 hours

Credit: None

Description: Fundamentals of Leadership is designed for leaders to learn the skills necessary to transition into a leadership position. The class focuses on common difficulties normally faced when transitioning into leadership positions, levels of leadership, behaviors of leadership, and styles of leadership. The class teaches the basics skills necessary to transition into a leadership position and understand the levels, behaviors, and styles of leadership vital to successful leadership.

Course Length: 1 hour

Credit: None

Description: Effective Communication equips a leader with the tools they need to navigate communicating, both up and down the chain of command and with peers, as they enter their new role. This will assist in understanding the effective use of communication. It will cover information over the communication process, choosing the appropriate channel for your audience and how biases impact non-verbal communication.

Course Length: 1 hour

Credit: None

Description: Conflict Resolution is designed for leaders to understand the basic skills needed to successfully resolve conflicts and focuses on what conflict is, why leaders should resolve conflict, when leaders should resolve, and how leaders should resolve conflict. The class teaches the basic skills necessary to resolve conflict within the work center.

Course Length: 1 hour

Credit: None

Description: This lesson will cover the different types of feedback, supportive and corrective, and how to deliver them both effectively. In addition, leaders will be shown the guidelines for giving effective feedback as well as the strategies to use as a leader to ensure that feedback has positive outcomes.

Course Length: 1 hour

Credit: None

Description: In this lesson a step-by-step process will be covered to understand the process for coaching others. Leaders will learn the difference between coaching and supervision. A step-by-step coaching model will be covered to help develop those to be led. Also, the triggers that signal when to use coaching will be covered.

Course Length: 1 hour

Credit: None

Description: In this lesson students will get an understanding of change management. The lesson covers common types of resistance to change, and the levels of openness people have towards change. Students will also learn an eight-step change management process and the various roles leaders fill when managing change.

Course Length: 1 hour

Credit: None

Description: This lesson will create an understanding on how to develop an environment where leaders can build and maintain a strong team. In this lesson, factors that are essential to creating a strong team will be covered. Also, discovering strategies leaders can use to build each of these factors in your team will be addressed.

Course Length: 1 hour

Credit: None

Description: This lesson will create an understanding on how to balance conflicting leadership. Being a leader often requires finding a balance between what may seem to be conflicting leadership attributes. For instance, leaders need to be disciplined but also flexible. In this lesson, how to find balance in three areas; yourself, your people and your mission will be explored.