CTAHR College-Wide Conference: Building A Shared Vision
Extension Workshop–May 10, 2002

Items from Cluster C

• C: Need to decide what we don’t do anymore
  
• C: cover soup to nuts
  
• C: prioritize our work
  
• C: not being everything to everyone
  
• C: prioritizing/leadership
  
• C: statewide leadership and teamwork in addressing client needs
  
• C: mechanism for getting good ideas into execution
  
  

• Decide what to drop
  
• Statewide leadership/teamwork address client needs
  
• Prioritizing
  
• Soup to nuts
  
• Fast track good ideas leading to execution
  
• Not being everything to everyone‡priorities, leadership
  
  

• Size, value of client group
  
• Potential to contribute local economy
  
• Political fallout/fall-in
  
• Potential funding
  
• Past demonstrated efficacy
  
• Mandates-who/what USDA says we must do
  
• Analyze whether we’re doing it simply because that’s the way it has been done
  
• Is it good PR for CTAHR
  
• Match to staff expertise
  
• Fit with community needs, current and projected and CTAHR mission
  
• Addresses environmental justice
  
• Addresses health and social well-being
  
• Regulatory agendas
  
• What to do when key program staff leave
  
• Staff carrying capacity/workload
  
• Clientele support
  
• Do we only do what clientele is ready for, or do we push the edge? E.g. food safety prior to regulation
  
• Proactive vs. reactive
  
• Choice/balance between popular/ongoing programs vs. smaller/riskier initiatives
  
• Administrative support if program is criticized or questioned
  
  

Leadership and Prioritizing

• If left to individuals, will lead to anarchy, self-interest or status quo
  
• Cannot/should not be dictated by Deans
  
• Advisory committee
  
• Who needs to be involved?
  
  • county advisory committee
    
  • program advisory committee (need to define program)
    
  • clientele
    
  • co-workers
    
  • handle @ lowest level possible
    
  • relates to organization efficacy/dept. priorities/state priorities
    
• Need to define what a program is before you can prioritize them.
  
  

• How to select “hot” issues
  
• Who decides what gets acted on?
  
• Who decides how to act on it?
  
• Some new problems lead to priority than ongoing work e.g. response to disasters, DOH response to dengue
  
  

Actions

• Identify priority criteria
  
• Need group(s) who will do this
  
• Leave to individual, who uses sounding board
  
• Build in flex time for emergent issues
  
• Identify core programs/topics and revisit yearly
  
• Need time frame for 1st two bullets
  
• Need to decide what we don’t need anymore.
  
• Mechanism for getting good ideas into execution
  
• Not being everything to everyone
  
• Statewide leadership and teamwork in addressing client needs
  
• Soup to nuts
  
• Prioritize our work.