Enablers of Change

Today we’re going to explore the age old question of content versus process when you’re facilitating an event or a group of people. We’ve often heard debate around this as an enabler of change working in extension! Some people are adamant that you have to know the content, and others are equally adamant that it’s the process that helps enable change. 

In this episode we’ll give you a brief overview of the top five books that we think are useful to have on our bookshelf as enablers of change! See the show notes for all the resources.

Evaluation shouldn’t be just the add-on at the end of a project - it’s a core skill for enablers of change like ourselves! So let’s explore one framework for evaluation that’s been around for sometime - Bennett’s Hierarchy.
In this episode we’re going to explore what Bennett’s Hierarchy is and give you a few pointers for using it.

In this episode we’re talking all about time management and we’re going to share the top ten practical tips that actually work for us. There’s lots of other lists of time management practices, but many of those haven’t worked for us... perhaps they’re a bit too rigid or in some cases simplistic. So we’re going to share with you what works for us.

In this short episode we’re doing our second mythbusters session! Let’s not just accept something because it’s been said so many times that most people believe it. We’re going to delve deeper and explore the facts. So, let’s explore the cone of learning and the suggestion that people only retain 20% of what they hear, compared with 90% of what they do!

Today we’re going to explore a quick and simple way to have a structured conversation about something, or anything really! This is a very useful tool if you work in change and innovation, so if you aren’t sure what an ORID is, or if you do and want to know more, then this is for you!

It’s almost embarrassing to do this episode! Such a simple thing... but we’ve seen this done so badly over the years, we thought it was worth putting a short post together. What are we talking about? Name tags of course!

What if we could dramatically improve the adoption of innovations produced in our projects by one small design tweak? And especially those notoriously difficult and complex projects where there are no simple answers and multiple stakeholders involved.

In this episode we’re giving a brief overview of the modern evolution of agricultural extension during the last 50 years. This will highlight the different approaches over time and will hopefully illustrate that we shouldn’t throw the baby out with the bathwater.

In this episode we’re going to give you a brief overview of flipped learning, showing you how it might be an effective approach to use as enablers of change!