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Resources
Designing Innovative Programs and Projects
May 22 | John Porter, Jason Weigle, Emily Gratopp & Kurt Mantonya
Ever have a great idea for a project but need help getting it off the ground? Or wanting to work with your community to develop new programs, projects, or products? The eXtension Innovation Skill Building tookit can lead you through a multi-step process using principles of design thinking to develop innovative and impactful programs.
Participants will get to briefly experience some of the activities in the toolkit, so come with an idea or two for a project or program you’d love to develop or re-imagine (it would be a great time to think about designing virtual programs!). Don’t worry – if you’re stumped there will be a scenario provided to help get your creative juices flowing.
Clarity, Focus, Action
May 15 | Jill Lingard
Join us to help you learn to help others get clear on where they want to go, get focused on the various paths to get there, and then move them into action. Clarity, Focus, Action, is a UNL Extension signature professional development workshop, teaching life coaching skills. The skills and techniques of coaching are useful to you if you supervise others -but also when working with someone that needs a little nudge because they are 'stuck'.
Join, Dr. Jill Lingard, a CTI trained coach, for a micro-introduction of how to bring coaching strategies to your work in the pursuit of helping empower staff, volunteers, and clients identify what they want and forge their own paths toward their goals.
Trust Edge
May 8 | David Horsager
David Horsager is the leading expert on trust and how it’s built into everything from individuals and organizations to global governments. As bestselling author of The Trust Edge™ and The Daily Edge™ he has taken the platform across the United States and on 6 continents. He invented the Enterprise Trust Index™ and leads the charge in one of the nation’s foremost trust studies—The Trust Outlook™.
Be Proactive
May 1 | Keith Niemann & Lauren Madsen
We are at the end of our 6th week of working from home, and it’s easy to feel like the world’s gone crazy and new unwanted changes are being forced on us each day. It is easy to feel like you have no choice and that others are making your life miserable. Join us to explore the daily practices that you can put in place to develop Habit 1: Be Proactive from Stephen Covey’s 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, and reframe how you see and respond to your circumstances.
Your Challenge
How effective have your choices been during these past 6 weeks? What do you need to tweak going forward?
What's Your Story
April 24 | Beth Nyland & Jill Pollack
Story Mode workshops bring people together for a practical, memorable experience in storytelling. Participants tap into new fonts of creative inspiration, then harness that energy to build stories that work. Let's learn how to better tell our story.
Seeing Red Cars
April 17 | Keith Niemann
Seeing Red Cars encourages you to focus on what you DO want instead of focusing on what you don't! By having a positive attitude and taking action, you will be motivated to move in the right direction for yourself and for our organization. Learn the steps to get more of what you focus on.
Your Challenge
Using the steps from the session, select something professional or personal that you want to focus on and are willing to commit to. Write down what you will do and how you will keep that focus using the steps provided. We can’t wait to see what you accomplish when you focus more on what you want.
Adult Learning Strategies
April 10 | Nathan Connor
To effectively educate adults, it is important to have an understanding of how adults learn and how to effectively teach adults. This session will serve as an introduction to help extension understand basic principles of andragogy. It will provide participants with the knowledge and skills to apply principles of andragogy to current and future programing.
Your Challenge
Take a look at a program that you do for an adult audience and think about how you apply the 4 principles of andragogy? How will you use these 4 principles in your next adult program?
Staying Connected during a Season of Social Distancing
April 3 | Jenny Keshwani
Being physical isolated doesn’t have to keep you from being socially connected. Using the framework from the Trust Edge, Connection pillar learn and explore new ways of staying connected in today’s physical isolated world.
Your Challenge
Using the ABCD’s of Connection, what are you going to do to make your connections stronger during this time of social distancing?