Programs
Actionable Plans: Navigating Goal Fulfillment with Accountability
The program offers a group-based setting for individuals seeking to overcome the challenge of unfulfilled plans and goals. Facilitated by Dr. Brown, it focuses on transforming aspirations, visions, and plans into actionable steps. Emphasizing the design of structured action plans, this initiative instills accountability measures within the group dynamics, nurturing an environment conducive to successful goal attainment. Participants are guided through a process that equips them with strategies to effectively follow through on their intentions, fostering a culture of commitment and achievement.
Attracting and Retaining Diverse Candidates
The program aims to assist entities in strategizing to diversify their candidate and applicant pipeline. It endeavors to provide valuable insights into understanding the underlying reasons for challenges in attracting and retaining diverse candidates. Through fostering relationships with stakeholders and entities, the program seeks to expand reach and engagement with untapped talent pools. Its goal is to facilitate a comprehensive understanding of the intricacies involved while offering guidance to effectively broaden the spectrum of potential candidates for organizational pursuits.
Community Branding
Dr. King has designed this program to help define the culture and community brand, which is integral to future decision making necessary to inform a vision that will guide future economic and community development efforts.
Digital Dilemma Drop Ins
Join Dr. King on the second Tuesday of every month at 2 p.m. for online office hours to get answers to all your digital media related questions!
Digital Media Storytelling
Are you ready to tell your story to the masses? Dr. King provides trainings that include timeless and trendy topics such as marketing concepts, building business strategies, audience identification, channel selection, etc.
Empowering Self-Leadership
This series of workshops offered by Dr. Cline and Dr. Brown help individuals reflect introspectively on their leadership journey. Whether it is discussing the creation of a vision statement, inventorying your core values, how to work among differences in the workplace, team development, followership, or diving deeper into inclusive leadership, these workshops provide personal development growth for any leader.
Empowerment Through Collective Action: Strengthening African American Communities
Dr. Brown has developed a program centered on the principles of Collective Action and Community Resilience, tailored to bolster efforts within African American communities. Due to the disproportion disparities facing the African American community in the areas of wealth, health, and education this initiative aims to empower individuals across all age groups by fostering engagement and establishing robust accountability structures. By leveraging this approach, the program seeks to illuminate the latent potential within individuals, nurturing a realization of their capacity to effectuate positive change and fortify the very fabric of their communities.
Leading Change
This series of workshops offered by Dr. Cline help leaders identify tough adaptive challenges in their organizations and equip them with the leadership behaviors needed to lead adaptive change and thrive.
Legacy & Resilience: African American Agriculture
Dr. Brown's program endeavors to shed light on the often overlooked and significant contributions of African Americans in the United States' agricultural landscape. It aims to amplify their narratives, showcasing the historical and contemporary facets of African American involvement in agriculture. This initiative delves into the current state of black farming, highlighting challenges, opportunities for growth, and avenues for support. Dr. Brown also illuminates the disparities with the African American community that could be supported through agricultural programming. By offering a platform to elevate voices and perspectives, this program seeks to engage audiences of all ages in understanding and appreciating the rich heritage and ongoing impact of African American experiences within the agricultural sphere.
Minority Youth Agricultural Career Exploration
The program spearheaded by Dr. Brown endeavors to address the limited engagement of diverse youth in agriculturally related fields, primarily stemming from their restricted exposure to the breadth of opportunities within this domain. Dr. Brown's initiative offers an exploratory perspective aimed at enlightening youth about the diverse spectrum of agricultural facets and potential career avenues. By providing insights into the multifaceted landscape of agriculture and highlighting compelling reasons for considering a career in this field, the program aims to inspire and attract a more diverse cohort of youth towards pursuing agricultural professions.
Rural Youth Civic Leadership Curriculum
Civic leadership is vital to the sustainability of rural, farm-dependent communities in Oklahoma. This online curriculum aims to train rural youth in civic leadership so they are prepared to positively influence change and decisions in their community. The curriculum also includes a mentorship component, which provides resources for adult mentors to strengthen youth-adult partnerships in the community. The development of this curriculum was funded through the Rural Renewal Initiative Seed Grant program and is being piloted in a Southwest Oklahoma community.
Strengths-Based Approach to Leadership
Looking to unlock your potential and experience greater performance among the teams you lead? Dr. Cline is a Gallup-Certified Strengths Coach and can work with you one-on-one or with your team to administer the CliftonStrengths assessment and embed a strengths-based culture that fosters growth and sustained success.
Strengthening Connections with Community Based-Organizations
This program aims to maximize endeavors by supporting the development of symbiotic relationships between Extension and community-based organizations. Through collaborative synergy, this program aids outreach and impact, facilitating a more profound engagement with individuals sharing a common drive for achieving parallel objectives. Such concerted efforts aspire to leverage collective strengths, expand networks, and enhance the overall effectiveness in furtherance of mutual goals.
Tangible Tools for Working With Others
Tangible Tools for Working with Others is a one-day conference designed by Drs. Brown, Cline and King focusing on social media best practices, tactics to strengthen your brand, learner-centered teaching approaches, strategies for building quality relationships in the workplace and more.
Working Together to Solve Problems
As an accredited KAI practitioner, Dr. Cline can assist with group training or individual development to better understanding how people approach problem solving and creativity differently. Rooted in Kirton’s Adaption-Innovation theory, the KAI inventory and related trainings help organizations and groups improve the management of diversity, group cohesion, leadership techniques, problem solving, and team building.