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PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Interested in sharpening your skills or growing in your career? Curious about becoming a nationally certified guide? Get Outdoors Nevada offers a variety of professional development options for business, non-profit, education, interpretation, and natural resource professionals.

With more than 7.5 million acres of public lands available to millions of tourists and residents, there is no shortage of places to protect and people to teach.  For information about our professional development options, please see the tabs below, or contact Aaron Leifheit at [email protected]

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Professional Development Courses

Get Outdoors Nevada offers a range of professional development courses related to education, parks, and personal growth.

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Guide Training

Certified Interpretive Guide Training

Get Outdoors Nevada delivers Certified Interpretive Guide Training, a 32-hour nationally-recognized program designed for tour guides, museum hosts and park interpreters.

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Professional Development Courses

Get Outdoors Nevada works with partners region-wide to deliver and implement a variety of professional development courses.  Course offerings are relevant, enjoyable, rewarding, and can be custom designed for your organization and your needs.  

Current offerings include:

  • Introduction to Interpretation (1-4 hours)
  • Creating Interpretive Programs at Parks and Museums (1-4 hours)
  • Working with Diverse Youth Audiences (1-3 hours)
  • Dealing with Difficult Visitors or Customers (1-2 hours)
  • Introduction to Public Lands of Southern Nevada (2 hours) 
  • Customer Service/Professionalism (2 hours)
  • Classroom or Group Management Techniques (2 hours)
  • Teambuilding: Finding your Inner Voice (1-3 hours)

Pricing is variable and based on course, length, and number of participants.  Please contact Aaron Leifheit at [email protected] for additional information, to get a quote, or to schedule a course.

Certified Interpretive Guide Training

The 32-hour nationally-recognized CIG program is designed for tour guides, museum hosts and park interpreters who offer educational programs to the public. It is designed for employees of companies that employ guides or outfitters, or lead tours for the public. It increases employees’ abilities to have professional, knowledgeable, and effective contact with the public.

This course will give your employees the skills necessary to achieve these goals.

The course covers:

  • History, definition, and principles of interpretation
  • Making programs purposeful, enjoyable, relevant, organized and thematic
  • Using tangible objects to connect audiences to intangible ideas and universal concepts
  • Customer service skills
  • Tips for dealing with difficult customers or visitors
  • Development professional presentations, tours or programs
  • And more.

For more information on how and when you, your company or organization can receive this training, please contact Aaron Leifheit at [email protected] or call (702) 997-3350.