143rd Annual Meeting of the American Fisheries Society

September 08 - 14, 2013

This course is designed for new and emerging leaders in AFS; it addresses the need for new and emerging leaders to better understand how AFS functions, the roles of unit leaders in AFS, and how to be an effective leader in an all-volunteer organization such as AFS. The goal is to help you work effectively within the Society’s governance structure by helping you understand how things are supposed to work. Many times we’ve heard from people going out of office about the things they learned along the way. This course is designed to get some of that information to you before your term of office has ended. We will review the structure of the Society and the programs that exist and suggest ways you can be more effective within the governance structure and within your unit (Chapter, Section, or Division).