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Collaborating for Effective Communication
1.
2. What is a PFT?
• Program Focus Team
• Link on-campus and off-campus faculty
(subject matter specialists and agents)
• Develop statewide programming and
professional development
• 11 PFTs
3. What is a Communication Liaison?
How did we define ourselves?
• Started in Fall 2013
• Three goals
– Serve as communication consultants for PFT
– Help PFT leadership coordinate effective
communications
– Serve as a liaison to the Department of
Communications and Agricultural Education by
routing projects and questions to colleagues with
specific expertise
4. • Each communicator works with the PFT
leadership to understand the PFT goals,
target audiences, motivation for
communication, and the group’s current
communication methods and needs.
– Used a worksheet developed by a committee of
communication liaisons.
• First benefit was the improvement in the
“Making a Difference” reports.
12. Contact Us
• Linda Gilmore, lindagi@ksu.edu
• Gloria Holcombe, gloria@ksu.edu
• Katie Allen, katielynn@ksu.edu
Hinweis der Redaktion
Introduce ourselves.
Linda will start.
PFT size rages from 18 to 56 – it’s a challenge to work with sometimes. Each one has co-leaders, an administrative representative, and usually some office professional support.
Gregg Hadley – more efficient and consistent programming
Identify which PFTs we work with.
We were assigned to PFTs with a very short notice. We quickly realized we needed to get a better idea of what we should do as communication liaisons. So a subcommittee was formed to help us define our role.
Gloria starts here
Tell what the Making a Difference report is and its purpose.
When we started, the Making a Difference reports were not understandable to a general audience, and were not consistent in style or content. We’ve developed a template with word counts and the new reports are much easier to read and more concise. They communicate KSRE benefits more clearly.
Katie talks here
Katie will explain this
Katie can do this
Linda will start this slide – start with publication projects (at left)
Linda and Katie worked with subject matter specialists and agents who were developing a health insurance literacy curriculum. The publications were accompanied by news releases that highlight information in the pubs as well as links to more information.
Linda: I’ve gained a much better idea of what FCS agents do – it’s a much broader variety of services than I had imagined. For example, many agents offer parenting classes that are used in court-ordered parenting training. Agents also do a lot with underserved audiences (such as multi-lingual audiences, low-income, those in city and county jails, and others).
Katie – center area
Gloria – right side points
In general -- Story ideas; better understanding of how specialists train agents to answer questions; social media training; better idea of what events are happening around the state.
Katie – communications training
Linda – department and campus resources
Gloria – other communication resources
Gloria will do this slide
Linda:
This is an evolving effort on our part. We’re still learning. Do any of you work with similar programs?
Ask if there are any questions.