Learning Opportunities

The 2025 JCEP Extension Leadership Conference proudly announces the following guest speakers! Find out more and register today at https://www.jcep.org/elc ! See you in Savannah!

Register for the 12/16 webinar here: https://go.rutgers.edu/ l5efrlxv Please join us on Monday, December 16, 2024, at 12:30 pm for the third webinar of our Consumer Food Waste Webinar series. This series is part of a USDA grant that Ohio State University and Rutgers Cooperative Extension received to create a national consumer food waste community of practice. This monthly webinar series showcases the efforts of Extension groups, university researchers, and leaders in the food and...

Are you using The Arts -- poetry, music, painting, etc. --in your extension programs. If so, please let Dave or Hiram know.

You are invited to consider publishing your extension work in a special collection on the topic of “Transdisciplinary Collaboration for Sustainable Agriculture.” This collection is co-hosted by Community Science Exchange, a highly innovative experiment in scientific publishing that elevates the types of community-focused work that extension professionals do.

Do you want to become a more effective leader, or teacher, or team member? Or how about becoming a better family member? I teach a short segment on EQ in my grad classes here at Ohio State… and if you know Goleman’s Emotional Intelligence construct… you understand that when we know ourselves better (recognizing our own emotions), we can use that knowledge to guide our thinking and behavior. That’s powerful stuff. But how do you improve your emotional intelligence? One way is to learn a new...

What are you curious about? Some folks will respond to this question with an immediate answer: “Everything!” Others may just look at you and ask what you mean. Whether at one end of the spectrum, or somewhere in the middle, watching someone respond to this question will allow you to immediately know a lot about them and their potential for long-term success. In brief, curiosity is one of the most important traits and a high predictor for success identified by researchers at Korn Ferry, an...

Please join us on October 21, 2024, at 12:30 pm for the launch of our new Consumer Food Waste series. This series is part of a USDA grant that Ohio State University and Rutgers Cooperative Extension received to create a national consumer food waste community of practice. This monthly webinar series showcases the efforts of Extension groups, university researchers, and leaders in the food and sustainability industry who are making significant strides in combating consumer food waste. Each...

Can increasing gratitude improve your brain chemistry and help you feel better? Can it improve your career? The science of gratitude has expanded greatly in the past twenty years. Studies increasingly show that regularly practicing gratitude contributes to better relationships, decreased anxiety, and increased internal satisfaction. These bolster what Daniel Goleman labels emotional and social intelligence, key items for success in our careers and lives. Though once labeled soft skills—i.e.,...

Have you ever found your ability to make a choice and act upon it lacking? Choosing and acting define the broad concept of volition. Some label this as having the power to use one’s free will. But in times of stress or anxiety, we sometimes feel hindered in our ability to exercise that choice and action. We may even feel powerless, frozen in place, and unable to act at all. Can you think of a time when you felt unable to make a decision and then act? It could be something major or minor.

JCEP Extension Leadership Conference Abstracts Due October 11! The Joint Co uncil of Extension Professionals Extension Leadership Conference will be held February 19-20, 2025 in Savannah, GA. The committee invites abstract submissions, which are due Friday, October 11, 2024. Submitters will be notified by November 5 whether their abstract was selected. Conference registration opens on November 6, 2024. See www.jcep.org/elc for details.

Imagine a point in the future where you have achieved your greatest professional goal. Invest a moment here. Visualize your career success. You have worked hard and have earned this. Now consider this question: How does this success feel? I think most people will have some level of contentment or satisfaction. Others may feel a bit of pride in the accomplishment. Some may begin to ponder, “What’s next?” Those responses are all normal and valid. Now, imagine it’s six months after that major...

Rachel Brauner is a Program Coordinator for OneOp. OneOp is a single-point-of-entry professional development resource for military family service providers. To learn more about OneOp and register for the annual Military Family Readiness Academy (MFRA), visit www.oneop.org/mfra In the recent MFRA session on Strengthening Health, Wellness, and Financial Security through Total Force Fitness (TFF), we explored the TFF framework and how its approach to health and wellness can be especially...