Month: November 2024

Your Intentional Annual Work Plan: Creating an Efficient, Effective, and Adaptable Structure to Meet Your Goals

We are the Keys to Extension. Extension Conference, December 10 – 11, 2024. Columbus, Ohio. Breakout Session 4: Wednesday, December 11th, 11:00am – 11:50am.

Is your calendar a chaotic whirlwind of activity and deadlines? OSU Extension offers some of the most autonomous, exciting, professional interest and community driven-careers. Designing and driving your goals effectively within the annual calendar can be challenging. Being intentional with your work plan can help ensure that your professional goals, community needs, and alignment with your work teams and partners across the state will create success. Learn hands-on tools to design and follow your annual calendar with intention, direction, focus, and clarity for decision making. As important as all of the Extension Keys are, we will focus on the key of efficiency, giving you the key to unlocking the work plan that works for you. #ExtensionKeysEfficiency

Presenters:

Patrice Powers-Barker, Educator, Family and Consumer Sciences, Lucas County powers-barker.1@osu.edu

Melissa Rupp, Assistant Professor, Family and Consumer Sciences, Fulton County rupp.26@osu.edu

Session Handouts:

Time Management Resources:

For your work plan, recommended supplies:

  • Your data
  • Hard copy, monthly calendar for upcoming year such as https://www.calendar-12.com/printable_calendar/2025 
  • Pens, markers, post-it notes, dry erase board and/or poster sized paper to write on, worksheets, other planning tools
  • Copy of organization(s) mission and vision. For example, our Extension mission and vision but also others such as a professional organization or your personal list of values.
  • Your “reward” – how will you make this important task as enjoyable as possible? Partners? Lunch break at a favorite restaurant?

Just for fun – Patrice shared her poster of the iceberg with a Venn Diagram and all the below the surface examples. This link is NOT a time management example, nor will it help you design your work plan but it’s fun to design your own iceberg and watch it float: https://joshdata.me/iceberger.html

References: 

A&P Promotion Instructions for Extension Educators, specifically General Expectations of each Educator Level

Atlassian. (2022) 7 productivity methods: which one’s just right for you? www.atlassian.com/blog/productivity/7-productivity-methods

Harder, A. & Narine, L. (2020). Personal Health, Role, and Time Management Competency Training Needs of Extension Agents in Florida. The Journal of Extension, 58(1), Article 19. https://doi.org/10.34068/joe.58.01.19

How a top Harvard Business School Professor Approaches Intention Setting. (2017). Thrive Global Staff. https://community.thriveglobal.com/how-a-top-harvard-business-school-professor-approaches-intention-setting/

Lokenauth, A. (n.d.) Productivity Cheat Sheet. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/business-infographics_productivity-cheat-sheet-credits-to-andrew-activity-7176277064835096579-PftG

Nine Proven Time Management Techniques and Tools. University of Saint Augustine for Health Sciences. https://www.usa.edu/blog/time-management-techniques/

Powers-Barker, P. (2021). Now and Later: The paradox of living in the moment and planning for the future. Live Healthy Live Well. Ohio State University Extension. https://livehealthyosu.com/2021/11/15/now-and-later-the-paradox-of-living-in-the-moment-and-planning-for-the-future/

Russell, M. B., Attoh, P. A., Chase, T., Gong, T., Kim, J., & Liggans, G. L. (2019). Burnout and Extension Educators: Where We Are and Implications for Future Research. Journal of Human Sciences and Extension, 7(1), 15. https://doi.org/10.54718/SFPK7165

Russell, M. B., & Liggans, G. L. (2020). Burnout: Examining the Effects of Job Characteristics Across Extension Disciplines. The Journal of Extension, 58(1), Article 20. https://doi.org/10.34068/joe.58.01.20

Relating Mindfully: Creating Healthy Relationships

Investing time and care to your relationships is not only enjoyable but it can also be good for your health! Join Patrice Powers-Barker, CFLE, Extension Educator for kindness and connection strategies. This is part of the Thrive in 2024-2025 Unleashing your potential for personal and professional success. (Thursday, November 14, 2024)

 

PowerPoint: Relating Mindfully: Creating Healthy Relationships

Try these Tools for Healthy Relationships:

 

References: 

Abrams, Z. (2023). American Psychological Association. The Science of Why Friendships Keep Us Healthy https://www.apa.org/monitor/2023/06/cover-story-science-friendship

Bohn, K. (2017). Love actually: Americans agree on what makes people ‘feel the love’. Penn State. https://www.psu.edu/news/research/story/love-actually-americans-agree-what-makes-people-feel-love

Fuller, J., Fitter, E. (2020) Mindful Parenting: A Behavioral Tool for Parent Well-Being. Behav Analysis Practice 13, 767–771. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40617-020-00447-6

Myers-Walls, J. A., Ballard, S. M., Darling, C., & Myers-Bowman, K. S. (2011). Reconceptualizing the domain and boundaries of family life education. Family Relations, 60, 357-372. www.ncfr.org/sites/default/files/domains_article_fr.pdf

Our Shared Values. The Ohio State University https://www.osu.edu/shared-values

Poulsen, S. (2008). A fine balance: The magic ratio to a healthy relationship. Purdue Extension.  https://www.extension.purdue.edu/extmedia/cfs/cfs-744-w.pdf

Social Connection. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. https://www.cdc.gov/social-connectedness/about/index.html

Social Wellness. The Ohio State University, Office of Student Life. https://swc.osu.edu/wellness-education-and-resources/ten-dimensions-of-wellness/social-wellness

What does a healthy relationship look like? New York State, Teen Dating Abuse Awareness and Prevention. https://www.ny.gov/teen-dating-violence-awareness-and-prevention/what-does-healthy-relationship-look

 

 

 

 

 

Homebuyer Education: Individualized financial education during a major life purchase

 

On Friday, November 22, 2024 at 10:20am, Melissa J. Rupp and Patrice Powers-Barker will be presenting Homebuyer Education: Individualized financial education for a major life purchase at this year’s Symposium. AFCPE Symposium 2024 is the intersection of financial education, research, and practice.

Welcome to Ohio! Here’s a recipe for candy Buckeyes

A simple mindful reminder:

PowerPoint: Homebuyer Education_AFCPE_2024

National, State, and Local Partners:

Financial Education Resources and Tools for Homebuyers:

If someone is just starting to consider homeownership and calls the office with questions, the CFPB has a roadmap and information on Buying a house: Tools and resources for homebuyers.

Depending on their personal situation, these resources are used by the educator for discussion on the phone call and shared in the follow-up email with the first-time homebuyer.  

Thank you for visiting the Buckeye State. In our session we talked about the famous Buckeye dessert recipe: https://www.justapinch.com/recipes/dessert/candy/ohio-state-buckeyes.html The only thing Patrice would add to this recipe is to add the toothpicks to the peanut butter balls before putting them in the freezer.

Contact Information:

  • Patrice Powers-Barker, CFLE, Extension Educator, Family and Consumer Sciences,  powers-barker.1@osu.edu ​
  • Melissa J. Rupp, AFC®, Assistant Professor, Extension Educator, Family and Consumer Sciences, rupp.26@osu.edu

 

References:

Housing Counseling through Cooperative Extension (2017). The Bridge: The Office of Housing Counseling Newsletter. U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. VOLUME 5, ISSUE 9 MARCH 2017  https://www.hud.gov/sites/documents/OHC_BRIDGE033017.PDF

Loibl, C., Durhan, J., and Moulton, S. (2018). Rich Opportunities from Collaboration with a State Housing Finance Agency. Journal of Extension. v56-7 iw5. https://open.clemson.edu/joe/vol56/iss7/16/

Myhre, M., and Elsasser Watson, N. (2017). Housing Counseling Works. U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. https://www.huduser.gov/portal/sites/default/files/pdf/Housing-Counseling-Works.pdf

Peck, L., Moulton, S., Bocian, D., Morris, T., DeMarco, D., US Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Public Development and Research, Abt Associates. (2021). Long-Term Impact Report: The HUD First-Time Homebuyer Education and Counseling Demonstration. https://www.huduser.gov/portal//portal/sites/default/files/pdf/Long-Term-Impact-Report-HUD-First-Time-Homebuyer-Education-Counseling-Demonstration.pdf

Sackett, C. (2016).  The Evidence on Homeownership Education and Counseling. U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. https://www.huduser.gov/portal/periodicals/em/spring16/highlight2.html