Author: Daniel Kahl
Major Program: Facilitation Training
Coaches can help groups support and sustain successful community change initiatives. University of Kentucky Cooperative Extension Service hosted a two-day professional development coaching workshop in historic Berea, Kentucky. Eight Extension agents joined with professionals from Extension administration, program coordinators, professors, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, and Community and Economic Development Initiatives of Kentucky staff to practice coaching skills that can be used to
Author: Jay Stone
Agriculture Awareness ranks as a top priority for the Christian County Ag Advisory Council. Among the methods of reaching people, the use of social media rose to the top this year as a means of engaging both Ag and Non-Ag sectors of our population. A social media plan was developed and implemented by the Christian County Extension Agent for Agriculture. Social media has been identified as an important delivery method because you must engage people where they are. And most of the 98% of non-farme
Author: Steven Austin
Over the course of two weekends in November and December leadership training takes place. On these two weekends approximately eighty individuals show up to become leaders of youth in the state of Kentucky. They all have different skill levels and while they are gaining information to help them teach youth they also get to share some of their skills with the trainers. Even though some of the games that we teach them, (steal the bacon) could cause headaches, everyone survived and
Author: Jennifer Bridge
Lack of commuication and the need for more transparency has been a common theme among citizens statewide and reflected in several media outlets throughout the Commonwealth. Extension agents can play an integral role in facilitating discussions among stakeholders and decision makers. However, many agent expressed the need learn how to facilitate discussions or practice facilitation skills prior to hosting events. To meet address the need a statewide facilitation training was re
Thirteen agents from Western Kentucky gathered for a day of facilitation training at the Cooperative Extension Office in McCracken County on September 19, 2017. Dan Kahl and Lori Garkovich, Extension Community and Leadership Development/CEDIK faculty, and Jennifer Bridge, Meade County Extension agent, led this one-day training to help extension agents develop and improve their facilitation skills when working with community teams. The workshop content focused on core facilitation practice
