I see you. You, the thousands of Extension professionals whose jobs have been terminated with the elimination of SNAP-Ed. The elimination of the SNAP-Ed program doesn’t make sense.

There is no such thing as work-life balance. The best we can hope for is work-life harmony. When we aim for harmony rather than balance, we live knowing that the mix will sometimes lean toward work; other times it will lean toward home.

Feedback done well leads to growth and motivation. Susan Sloop offers strategies for effective feedback using the S-B-I process.

When work gets crazy (crazy hard, crazy sad, crazy busy, crazy mad), and I am digging deep to find a reason to smile, I pull up the Extension Worker’s Creed to remind me why I chose this work.

These are the pillars of our operating procedures and strategic guidelines. They may seem simple but I use them constantly to assess whether we are on the right path, as individuals, and as a team.

I stopped calling errors “mistakes;” I call them hiccups instead.

The sooner we get out of an urban vs rural mindset, the sooner we begin building trust between those who feed and those who eat.

I never use my job title when I introduce myself. Instead of reciting your HR job title, tell others how you add value the organization.

Life does that to us, doesn’t it — come at inconvenient times in inconvenient ways asking more of us than we think we’re ready to give. Great leaders know that inconvenience transforms us and pushes us out of our comfortable box into unlimited potential.