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Extension Resources

The purpose of these documents are to provide frameworks and principles for considering the extension skills needed to inform career pathways and training needs.

Professional Extension Capability Pathways Paper

The TNQ Drought Hub and Department of Agriculture and Fisheries (DAF) have worked in partnership in the development of a generic Extension Pathways Matrix to support Australian extension organisations. The purpose of this report is to provide a framework for considering the extension skills needed to inform career pathways and training needs.  It is also about further developing and supporting the recognition of the professional extension.

Read Professional Extension Capability Pathways Paper

Guiding Principles

These documents set out some guiding principles to support decision making related to extension practice. They are essentially summary documents to support the scoping out of a project or program for an early career extension professional or a more seasoned professional that may wish to review an alternate approach.

These resources set out some guiding principles associated with Change, Technical and Relational Practice. Each of the documents can be considered as required to support extension practice decision making.

Change Practice

Good extension practices incorporate understanding behavioural change which encompasses the fields of sociology and psychology.

Change Practice Principle

Relational Practice

Establish the foundation for a collaborative relationship. Begin to get to know the producer and their context to build and sustain a sound working relationship. 

Relational Practice Principle

Technical Practice

Extension officers provide specific technical knowledge and influence change through their technical expertise and established relationships.

Technical Practice Principle
Further Resources

TAS – tbc

 

SNSW – currnetly working on something

 

GRDC funded project at the moment – SNSW are lookin to support this project by having some prelim work to support early stages. 

 

mla run livestock training profesionals event – refer to this. not sure what online looks like but link to it 

include coutts and co

DAF – grazing futures, and reef extenstion programs 

John James – enablers for change

jeanette long? Look online for her.

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