Following this meeting, we will:

. Share information with everyone in the state that Florida participated in this conference
. Update fact sheets
. Begin to develop tools that are out there to provide to agents

. Everyone-county faculty and volunteers
. Administration, which recognizes the value of the system

. In-service training
. Publications
. Newsletters

. One- or two-day in-service educational opportunity
. District faculty meeting to bring county faculty and volunteers together
. Update fact sheets
. Begin to develop tools to share with county faculty
. Recommend to Deans and Director that they consider a state advisory committee
. Access materials on these topics

. Fact sheets-six months
. In-service-2002
. District training-Spring 2002
. Tools drafted-Spring 2002 

. Volunteers for the Future-4-H Kellogg-funded initiative
. Review of extension journal articles

Following this meeting, we will:

. Share information on different structure of councils
. Shorten quarterly video updates
. Suggest that the more meetings, the more successful a program will be

. Report to the state council, which will let information filter down
. Report findings at A & L committee meeting
. Training of councils: state, area, and county
. Electronic training

. Newsletter or Web site
. E-mail 

. Holding more than one meeting a year and meet in more than one location
. Showing that extension has many facets
. Informing the members of several areas and programs
. Adjusting scheduling to attend meetings
. Using the materials that we have to better advantage

. Might coordinate meeting with like meetings
. Look at late July or August for another meeting
. Propose change to two meetings at meeting in February
. Perhaps meet earlier in conjunction with the A&L meeting in later fall

. Advisory leaders meeting is presently a one-time meeting
. Sharing ideas for future meetings
. Information on Web that you might choose to use in your county, area, or state
. Having representatives from various states work together for a similar meeting in three to five years
. Probably not be an annual meeting 
. Having bigger state delegations
. Getting a newsletter that could be distributed across states, possibly using e-mail

Following this meeting, we will:

. Get buy-in for advisory leadership committees
. Show it can help reporting system to embrace a system that will be statewide
. Develop a solid foundation for advisory leadership first then bring in volunteers; volunteers will make the plan work.

. Robert DeVerma
. Administrators for state, district, parish
. Personal and Organizational Development Director
. Each parish staff member must share a part in the process

. Written report
. Committee at administration staff conference
. Electronically

. Administration stress that advisory leadership on parish level is a priority
. Utilize leadership programs (ag, FCE) to do leadership training in place
. Team building and leadership development training
. Written guidelines, job descriptions, build-in marketing subcommittee for each advisory leadership council

. As soon as possible
. To be included in 2001-02 plan and program of work

. Continue to learn successes and failures
. Community leadership development
. Conduct a meeting similar to this one in state. Involve community leadership development, ag leadership, FCE leadership

Mississippi State Report

Following this meeting, we will share the need for:

. A strong marketing program for advisory leadership
. Buy-in of advisory council 

. Agents
. Specialists
. Volunteers

. District training, which would include people skills, team building, diversity training
. Recruiting non-extension users to be part of the advisory council and training to support that
. Begin early with job descriptions and general training
. A team to help with restructuring advisory council from all levels

. Training can begin soon
. Restructuring will delay final implementation plans

. Continue collaborating: an excellent way to network within the region
. A regional advisory council
. Web site development

Following this meeting, we will:

. Make sure we move outward, not inward - "scatter"
. Move to a higher level of involvement through training in counties
. Stress critical personal development and facilitate competencies
. Stress that every agent is critical to the advisory leadership system
. Develop a tool to involve counties in discussing the issues from this conference

. State Advisory Council
. Extension administration
. New Vice Chancellor

. Written report
. Discussion at advisory leadership meetings 

. Examination of hiring of district and county director positions; search for people with leadership and people skills
. Developing training for agents focused on personal development and facilitation competencies
. Work with PODS to develop a training curriculum for volunteers

. Begin discussion with advisory leadership at the August meeting

. Topical issue at the Southern Region Middle Management Conference
. Exchange programs between states
. Institute for volunteers focused on advocacy
. Training curriculum
. Form collaboration with Center for Creative Leadership
. Develop a list serve from the SEAL Conference

Following this meeting, we will:

. Share the need for an all-inclusive statewide advisory committee

. Advisory committee
. Clemson and South Carolina State Administrators
. Faculty and staff

. At the next advisory committee meeting
. Beginning Thursday

. Volunteers become more active; move beyond passive learning role
. Training programs and newsletters
. Curriculum
. Real diversity challenge and probe us
. "Executive Director"

. Immediate

. Exchange program with Virginia or have others come to South Carolina

Texas State Report

Following this meeting, we will share information with colleagues concerning:

. Different types of ALS models
. Proceedings of this conference

. Administrators at all levels
. Administrative teams
. Leading agents

. Existing county ALS resources be tweaked to include issue teams, action teams, collaborations
. Present system be maintained
. ALS be connected to mentoring, new agent training and performance appraisal
. Recognize-communicate county ALS results across state through newsletters, e-mail, etc.
. Take a proactive approach and ask question if state ALS is needed
. Explore purpose and function
. Could a state ALS strengthen our contact with legislators?
. For advocacy?

. Assign a specialist position to facilitate ALS
. Currently August

. Sharing and networking

Following this meeting, we will share information on: 

. Common issues
. Training
. Selecting leaders
. Advocates
. Differences

. All unit coordinators and ELC Chairs-partnership

. Dean's letter that will include specific plans of action and recommendations
. Task force

. Annual ELC Chair and Vice Chair training
. Local training for new and continuing advisors
. Statewide leadership institute
. Advisory council 15 minutes each meeting; provide support materials, motivation
. Six-month leadership development program

. Eighteen months

. Dialogue and networking
. Skill building

From Strengthening Extension Advisory Leadership in the Southern Region, a Southern Region Extension Advisory Leadership Conference held in Charlotte, N.C., May 3-5, 2001