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DFD Associates provides organization development consulting and expert facilitation for institutions of higher education and related agencies and associations, including Cooperative Extension.
DFD's principal consultant, Dr. Duane Dale, provides situation-specific guidance designed to . . .
- develop strategies and policies
- involved stakeholders
- plan publications
- assess policy implications
- enhance collaboration among researchers and educators
- develop breakthrough innovations and
creative responses to challenges
- guide and manage change.
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Services
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DFD's services are available to:
- Extension at all levels (sub-state, state, regional, and national)
- Extension-related associations
- Universities that are developing Extension functions in new content areas.
DFD's services for Extension include:
- Strategic planning assistance and strategic research
- Stakeholder forums, focus groups, and questionnaires
- Departmental and administrative retreats
- Leadership development
- Needs assessments
- Program evaluation and impact assessment
- Public policy education materials development and program design
- Process analysis and redesign
- Assistance with special projects and with staffing reconfiguration
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Extension
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- The national Cooperative Extension System
- Cooperative Extension at the state level in Connecticut, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, West Virginia, Wisconsin
- Tuskegee University Extension
- The Extension Directors of the Northeastern States
- The Association of Extension Administrators (at the Historically Black Land Grant Institutions)
- The National Association of State Universities & Land Grant Colleges
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Sample
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DFD's work is aimed at producing results that benefit Extension, its clientele, and the broader society. Examples include:
- Public issues education — Re-framed the system's ability to educate regarding controversial public issues: author and editor of training publications, co-producer of video case studies and co-host of videoconference training series available by satellite nationwide.
- Leadership development — Creator and principal trainer for the northeast regional leadership development program, NeLD. (An extensive archive of Dale's leadership development materials is available at neld.rutgers.edu.)
- Strategic research — on the Extension system's strategic planning practices.
(See www.umext.maine.edu/CESstrategy/Default.htm.)
Dale's study of the impacts of strategic change at
Oregon State University is on the web at extension.oregonstate.edu/mission3/situation.html.
- Strategy Development — Designed and led strategic planning processes for Nutrition Education and Ag units. Planned and led a process for involving 300+ Extension professionals from the 1890s Extensions in strategic planning
- Programmatic guidance — Conducted focus groups and stakeholder forums for specific Extension program areas.
- Influencing state funding for research — Planned and led a three-day visioning and planning process for the Illinois Council for Food & Ag Research, which serves as an advocate for state funding of university research. (See http://www.uaaan.mx/academic/prospecci/C%20AgriAliEU.htm.
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