Employee Needs Assessment

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Employee Needs Assessment Survey

The National Conservation District Employees Association (NCDEA) wants to know how we can best support employee needs related to training, growth and development, and connection to resources. Please take a few minutes to answer the following to help us best structure our time and resources in 2025. All emails collected in this survey will be added to NCDEA's strategic distribution list, used to keep employees aware of upcoming opportunities for virtual and in-person capacity-building.

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Email *

District *

Position at Your District *

What are the most pressing training needs in your District? Please check all that apply:

Administrative - Board Meetings; record-keeping; policies/procedures

Financial - budget development and management

Operations - capacity-building through new funding streams/agreements/partners

Human Resources

Legal requirements for operation: Ethics, sexual harassment, safety, transparency

Technical Assistance training for field staff

Grant Writing

Financial - cost recovery rate development and facilitation

Education Program Development/Community Education and Outreach

Partnership Development

Other:

Please evaluate the following statement: I have a current employee development plan and/or roadmap to growth as a conservation district employee. *

Does your board support participation in training, with funding and/or enabling use of staff time to attend?

Yes, my board is very supportive! We have an annual budget for training travel and staff time for all positions.

My board is somewhat supportive; with more information on benefits of training, they may be more willing to actively support employee attendance and engagement

My board is not supportive when it comes to training. I am only able to access trainings that are completely free in terms of travel and participation.

Other:

Clear selection

Please select the following that best describes employee training availability in your state or territory:

There is a well-advertised, accessible program with in person and/or virtual opportunities for learning across multiple topics of interest to employees.

There is a program offering training to employees; timing, availability, and applicability of topics vary

There is a program; however, it's expensive, not applicable to typical employee training needs, or otherwise not useful to me.

There is no program; employees seek training out of state or through partners only.

Other:

Clear selection

Please select the following that best describes your perspective on NCDEA-assisted development of training in your state or region:

My state employee's association is actively interested in all resources available to provide immediate employee training and development plan creation support

Many employees in my state would be interested in learning more about state training program set-up, operations, and engagement; not sure which entity would be responsible for ongoing facilitation

I personally am interested in individual resources for growth and development; not sure if others in my state feel that way

I don't feel there's much interest in spending time developing training capacity in my state; big barriers exist to creating and sustaining this kind of program

My state has an existing and robust employee training and development program; no need to create a new one

Other:

Clear selection

Please indicate style of resources most helpful to you/your District, hosted on NCDEA's website:

Short videos/presentations/resources useful in onboarding for new employees and district supervisors/board members

Resources for small/underfunded districts

NRCS/District Partnership Success Stories

Checklists and resources for developing policy/procedure manuals

Short videos/fact sheets highlighting key District partners

Agreement repository: saving and sharing template agreements open to all NCDEA members

Document library: sample strategic plans, budgets, annual workplans

None of the above

Other:

Space provided for additional comments/questions

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