NRPA Skill Builders

These flexible learning opportunities are designed to fit your busy schedule, be more responsive to your professional development budget, and align with your professional development goals. Skill Builders are organized into three types of focused learning experiences that will enable you to build and strengthen specific skills based on your desired time commitment:

  • Stepping Stones – highly focused content that can be completed in 15-minutes or less and are immediately applicable. These are a great option for park professionals with limited time or are on the go.
  • Mile Markers – designed to be completed within one to one and half hours, these opportunities are a great option for professionals seeking more digestible, single skill focused learning.
  • Skill Summits – designed around a focused skill set, these are for professionals who require a shorter time commitment than our certificate offerings but want a deeper dive than our Mile Markers offer.

See below for our current NRPA Skill Builder offerings! 

Note: Stepping Stones are available for free to members, Mile Markers and Skill Summits are members-only offerings.

Stepping Stones

Mile Markers

Skill Summits

  • Park Champion Initiative Skill Summit
    Contains 9 Component(s)

    The Park Champion Initiative is NRPA's signature grassroots advocacy training program that provides members with the information, skills and experience needed to be effective advocates for parks and recreation. Through this self-paced version, members will have the flexibility to complete the online training at their own pace! This Skill Summit is available for free to NRPA Members and does not award CEUs.