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Advisory Leader’s Roles with the Extension Plan of Work
Advisory Leader’s Roles with the Extension Plan of Work
Ralph Prince, Advisory Leadership Coordinator University of Kentucky Cooperative Extension Service
The Four Year Plan of WorkThe Four Year Plan of Work
• Cooperative Extension agents with the aid of advisory groups and other community members develop a Four Year Plan of Work followed by annual updates.
Why a Plan of Work?Why a Plan of Work?• Extension is a public agency supported
primarily by public (tax) dollars.
• To demonstrate accountability for our time and resources allocated to Kentucky Cooperative Extension, we need to show that our actions are planned and deliberate.
• The Plan of Work is our “contract with the community” - a display of locally identified issues and our plans to address them.
• BUT. . .
Why bother?Why bother?
• The Plan of Work is like the rudder for our ship… without a rudder, we would wander aimlessly without a course or deliberate direction…
The Plan of Work guides our program in the direction
identified by local leaders
The Plan of Work helps us find a proper balance between Service and Education
Service Education
The Plan of Work serves as a guide to the proper and
appropriate use of resources.
The Plan of Work makes our efforts the people’s program
To be effective in our efforts, we need to: discover the issues affecting the people of our county that we can address through educational programs.
Those are the nuggets we must search for!
We call thisFour Year Plan of Work effort
and we have a process for it
and you have a role in it!
Four Key Steps Where Advisory Leaders are involved in the
POW Process
Four Key Steps Where Advisory Leaders are involved in the
POW Process
• Developing Linkages with the Public• Planning—assessing, prioritizing, and
designing• Implementation of plans• Evaluation—measuring program
results
Step One: Developing Linkages with the Public—Help us ConnectStep One: Developing Linkages
with the Public—Help us Connect• Are our advisory groups’ membership
where they need to be?
• Have we identified others in our community and identified ways to seek input from them?
• Are we clear about our mission in program planning?
Step Two: PlanningStep Two: PlanningWe will ask you to help us with:• Situation Analysis—what are the issues?• Identifying Program Opportunities—what do our
investigations say?• Priority Setting—which issues should we
address at this time?• Program Design—what is our strategy for
addressing these?
Step Three: Program Implementation
Step Three: Program Implementation
Roles Advisory Members will help with:
• Resource Management
• Program Management –humans, tasks, fiscal matters, risks
• Marketing—mail, media, community postings
• Collaboration
Step Four: Program EvaluationStep Four: Program EvaluationWe will need your help in establishing
criteria, collecting evidence, making judgments and communicating findings
• Evaluation—value or worth of the program
• Interpretation—what does it mean
• Communication—who needs to know
IN CONCLUSION IN CONCLUSION
Steps to the Process of the POW• Developing Linkages with the Public
• Planning
• Implementation
• Evaluation