EXF 2023 Professional Development Needs Assessment Report

4. Advisor Career Stage- play a key role in shaping the future of the organization through innovative ideas and original concepts, or sponsoring promising people, has a distinct competence in several areas of expertise and regional and/or national reputation, catalyst for positive change 5. Other (please explain) __________

Please select up to three challenges facing your Extension organization that may be alleviated by professional development programs or other sources of support. Some examples are provided. 1. Community Engagement including community access, dealing with political issues, diversity, equity, & inclusion, maintaining relevant community-based programming, and telling our story 2. Core Values including civil rights compliance, community globalization impacts, diversity, equity, & inclusion, having a growth mindset, organizational trust, technological innovation, and volunteer development 3. Funding and Other Resources including facilities, funding, having innovation capacity, institutional support, limited staff capacity/resources (small staff), meeting increased societal need, operating space, and telling our story 4. Human Resources including distributed leadership for remote work environments, diversity, equity, & inclusion, employee burnout, employee recruitment, employee retention, recruiting diverse new employees, and succession planning 5. Institutional support including funding and other resources, limited staff capacity/resources (small staff), linkage across Land-grant missions of Extension, research, & teaching, and organizational trust 6. Leadership development including career development, change management, distributed leadership for remote environments, movement from one career stage to another, and succession planning 7. Professional development including distributed leadership, diversity, equity, & inclusion, employee burnout & retention, finding & maintaining professional development programs, globalization impacts in communities, leadership development, onboarding, professional development across career stages, remote work environments, succession planning, and volunteer development & management 8. Program development processes including comprehensive program development understanding, identifying appropriate modalities (online, face-to-face, etc.) to use for trainings, instructional design, and program evaluation 9. Strengthening the national Extension organization including connections to positions across Extension organizations and linkages across land grant types 10. Other (please explain) __________

Select all of the challenges your Extension organization is facing related to community engagement. 1. Community access

2. Dealing with political issues 3. Diversity, equity, and inclusion 4. Maintaining relevant community-based programming 5. Telling our story 6. Other (please explain) __________

Select all of the challenges your Extension organization is facing related to core values. 1. Civil rights compliance

2. Community globalization impacts 3. Diversity, equity, and inclusion 4. Having a growth mindset 5. Organizational trust 6. Technological innovation 7. Volunteer development 8. Other (please explain) __________

Select all of the challenges your Extension organization is facing related to funding and other resources. 1. Facilities 2. Funding 3. Having innovation capacity 4. Institutional support 5. Limited staff capacity/resources (small staff)

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