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Bill Taylor grew up on a farm in northwestern Montana, taught vocational agriculture for 16 years, then became an Agriculture and Natural Resource Extension Educator with the University of Wyoming for 11 years. In 2005 he took on the position of Community Development Area Extension Educator with the University of Wyoming. You can read his articles at Scribd. Contact Bill at weston@uwyo.edu.
A Bill Taylor Podcast
These are insights of Bill Taylor, University of Wyoming Extension Community Development Area Educator. He provides audio podcasts on numerous subjects, including personal and family financial literacy, board governance, business management, estate planning, leadership development, facilitation, conflict management, horticulture, and other subjects of interest.
Episodes Archive
Guardian Responsibilities
- Guardians are chosen carefully by the court and have specific responsibilities to fulfill.
Guardianship and Conservatorships
- One of the most important issues in estate planning is providing care and oversight for children and incapcitated adults.
Is A Will Enough?
- There are other methods and documents which should be considered in addition to your will.
Requirements For A Wyoming Will
- Completing an accurate will designed for your situation requires important information and numerous supporting documents.
Why Prepare a Will?
- A will is a highly important planning tool to protect your property, beneficiaries, and children.
Plant Combinations
- What plants go together for watering zones while making a pleasing landscape?
Spring Lawn Care
- There are several things to do now to prepare your lawn for summer.
Final Transfer of Personal Property
- Once recipients have been determined, personal property may be transferred in one of two ways.
Inventory and Assigment of Personal Property
- When estate planning personal items need to be inventoried and eventually assigned to a recipient.
Rules for Personal Property Transfer
- What rules should you follow when planning to pass on personal items? Here are some considerations.
Personal Property Transfer 2
- What is fair in passing on personal items and property? This is often a difficult decision.
Personal Property Transfer
- Estate planning for personal items is often overlooked and can be highly emotional.
Considerations in Choosing an Executor
- Additional considerations in choosing an estate executor or personal representative.
Who Should Be Your Estate Executor?
- Choosing the right person in your will to handle your estate is crucial.
Choosing an Estate Personal Representative
- Choosing an Estate Personal Representative
Does Your FICO Credit Score Make a Difference?
- FICO scores affect more and more of our lives. Loans from finance companies, payday lenders, etc. are ALWAYS negative on our score.
Using a Consent Agenda
- A consent agenda can quickly deal with the routine matters in your meetings and allow you to move on to more important or visionary issues.
Legal Responsibilities of Board Members
- Even though board types and locations vary, there are generally recognized legal requirements of boards and their members.
Best Governance Practices
- What does the IRS consider best practices for nonprofit boards?
Strategic Thinking
- Boards need to put in the time to think strategically, instead of being buried under the operational details.
Your Sprinkler System is Killing Your Lawn!
- Most sprinkler systems are set to water every day for a few minutes, which weakens the root system.
Your Trees Need Water!
- Most homeowners are not giving their trees enough water.
Are Student Loans Worth It?
- College is expensive and student loans can be a burden after graduation. Do they pay off?
Reducing Fees on Bank Accounts
- What you need to know about changing policies on bank service fees and how to reduce what you pay.
Using IRA to Pay Off Debt
- Should you use your retirement account to pay off debts? Math shows you will lose more than you gain.
Get Help When Trying to Help
- Are your charitable donations going where you intend? Possibly not. How can you better protect them?
Is Your House Underwater?
- Falling home prices have caused many house valuations to fall below the loan balance. What if yours is underwater?
How To Check Your Credit Score
- Credit scores control much of our financial lives and we should know what our score is.
Ice Melter Damages Plants
- Be careful with your ice melter or you may be replacing plants and turf.
THE ART OF FACILITATION (Part 10)
- Some of the things you can do to help yourself properly lead group meetings or processes, whether public or private.
THE ART OF FACILITATION (Part 9)
- Some of the things you can do to help yourself properly lead group meetings or processes, whether public or private.
THE ART OF FACILITATION (Part 8)
- Some of the things you can do to help yourself properly lead group meetings or processes, whether public or private.
THE ART OF FACILITATION (Part 7)
- Some of the things you can do to help yourself properly lead group meetings or processes, whether public or private.
THE ART OF FACILITATION (Part 6)
- Some of the things you can do to help yourself properly lead group meetings or processes, whether public or private.
THE ART OF FACILITATION (Part 5)
- Some of the things you can do to help yourself properly lead group meetings or processes, whether public or private.
THE ART OF FACILITATION (Part 4)
- Some of the things you can do to help yourself properly lead group meetings or processes, whether public or private.
THE ART OF FACILITATION (Part 3)
- Some of the things you can do to help yourself properly lead group meetings or processes, whether public or private.
THE ART OF FACILITATION (Part 2)
- Some of the things you can do to help yourself properly lead group meetings or processes, whether public or private.
THE ART OF FACILITATION (Part 1)
- Some of the things you can do to help yourself properly lead group meetings or processes, whether public or private.
HAVING DIFFICULT CONVERSATIONS (Part 2)
- Second part on how to conduct difficult conversations.
HAVING DIFFICULT CONVERSATIONS
- We all deal with conflict and part of conflict management is successfully shaping difficult conversations.
FIRE BLIGHT
- Fire Blight, caused by the bacterium Erwinia amylovora, is one of the most destructive diseases of apple and pear in the United States.
FINANCIAL TIPS (PART 1)
- Here are some financial tips from Cole Ehmke, Personal Finance Specialist with UW Cooperative Extension
WYOMING OPEN MEETINGS LAW
- Who is governed by the provisions of the Open Meetings Law?
DEVELOPING THE TACTICS FOR A STRATEGIC PLAN
- Developing a strategic plan for your group or agency is useless if you don't include tactics to bring the plan to completion.
DETERMINING A BUDGET (Part 2 of 2)
- You can look at your spending record and make some judgments about how much you are spending on needs versus wants and whether you should make some adjustments.
DETERMINING A BUDGET (Part 1 of 2)
- There are several steps that are necessary in establishing a spending plan or budget.
ASSESSING THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE
- Sometimes it is difficult to identify significant results-oriented goals in evaluating the director or chief executive of an organization.
THE ROLE OF THE AUDIT COMMITTEE
- The growing demand by the public and governmental regulatory agencies for transparency and accountability by public boards has challenged audit committees to be more proactive.
USING “VISIONING” TO DEVELOP STRATEGIC GOALS
- Day-to-day operational plans are fine for the final stage of planning, but the process needs to start at the strategic level.
THE SECRETS TO MASTERFUL VIRTUAL MEETINGS
- These vehicles can reduce the cost of meetings, they can also present significant challenges to the meeting leader.
WHAT TO DO WITH BOARD MEMBERS WHO DON'T DO ANYTHING
- Whose responsibility is it to "do something" about a board member who is AWOL, deadwood, undependable, a procrastinator, or worse?
DEVELOPING THE TACTICS FOR A STRATEGIC PLAN
- Steps to see your strategic plan will come to completion.
SUCCESSION IN THE FAMILY BUSINESS
- Business continuity requires generation to generation transition.
SUCCESSION PLANNING
- Want to test the strength of your succession plan? Ask yourself: Is your son or daughter making decisions in the ranch/farm business that you don't agree with?
SPRINGTIME RITUALS
- April and May is the time of year to begin some of the spring lawn rituals.
SHRUBS FOR WYOMING
- Some shrubs that should be considered in your landscaping plans.
SHAREHOLDER AGREEMENTS
- If there is one area ripe for the explosion of interpersonal relationships in a family business, it is when shares are passed down to family members through inheritance. Many business owners think of this as a great blessing and benefit to heirs, when it
SELF-FINANCING: DRAWING ON YOUR OWN ASSESTS TO FUND YOUR BUSINESS
- With conventional financing increasingly more difficult to obtain, self-financing is the number one form of financing used by small business owners.
Seed Catalogs
- Prepare for the next growing season by studying some seed catalogs.
ROSES
- Roses do require some special care and are susceptible to disease and insects, but it is worth a little extra care to grow them.
REVIEWING AN ACTION PLAN
- When an organization has a strategic plan, a necessary step is reviewing that plan periodically to keep it updated and current.
TOP 10 NON-PROFIT GOVERNANCE MISTAKES (FROM A LAWYERS PERSPECTIVE) – Part 2
- Mistakes made by nonprofit boards.
TOP 10 NON-PROFIT GOVERNANCE MISTAKES (FROM A LAWYERS PERSPECTIVE) – Part 1
- Mistakes made by nonprofit boards.
WINTER WATERING GUIDELINES FOR LANDSCAPES
- Winter weather with little or no snow creates a stressful situation for perennial plants, including shrubs and trees.
Evergreen Winter Injury
- Winter desiccation and damage from an early fall freeze are two major causes of winter injury to evergreen trees.
Making the Web Work for Your Business (2 of 2)
- Second in a series in web practices for a business.
Making the Web Work for Your Business (1 of 2)
- First in a series in web practices for a business.
Selling Houses by the Yard
- Good landscaping greatly improves the chances of selling a lot for the desired price.
Tree Health Based on Life Stages
- Using a acronym to remember the health issues at various life stages of a tree.
TICKS, LYME DISEASE AND RM SPOTTED FEVER
- Avoiding Lyme Disease and Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever.
Works Teams in the Rural Business
- Teams and teamwork have a place in small businesses.
Starting a Value-Added Business
- What do you need to know to start a food business?
Good Gardens and Landscapes Begin with Good Soil
- How to develop seedbeds with nutritious soils.
Survival of Seedling Trees
- Practices to improve the survival of tree plantings.
Tree Root Damage - Why? When? How?
- How do tree roots get damaged and what is the result?
Native Range Versus Seeded Pastures
- A discussion of which provided better nutrition and performance for cattle - native rangeland or seeded pasture.
Pollution Prevention Plans
- Description of the Wyoming Voluntary Remediation Program.
Values, Vision, and Mission Statements 2
- More detail on how to develop these statements.
DEVELOPING VALUES, VISION, AND MISSION STATEMENTS
- Developing your board's organizational statements.
PRINCIPLES FOR ETHICAL PRACTICES FOR NON-PROFIT BOARDS (Part 3 of 3)
- Third in a series on ethical practices for nonprofit boards.
PRINCIPLES FOR ETHICAL PRACTICES FOR NON-PROFIT BOARDS (Part 2 of 3)
- Second in a series on ethical practices for nonprofit boards.
PRINCIPLES FOR ETHICAL PRACTICES FOR NON-PROFIT BOARDS (Part 1 of 3)
- First in a series on ethical practices for nonprofit boards.
Generational Differences in the Workplace
- How different age groups work differently.
Generations
- How do the attitudes and expectations of various age groups differ?
Gardens and Grasses
- Adapting your garden to the environment. Planting decorative grasses.
Garden Insect Management 3
- Third in a series on managing insects in the garden.
Garden Insect Management 2
- Second in a series on managing insects in the garden.
Garden Insect Management 1
- First in a series on managing the insects in your garden.
Providing Leadership to Prevent Employee Mistakes
- Practices which can minimize mistakes of employees.
E-Discovery Rules
- There are new rules governing which electronic documents must be shared in court.
Disagreeing with a Board Decision
- What do you do when you disagree with the decision a board made of which you are a member?
Credit Cart Act
- Provisions of the Credit Card Accountability Responsibility and Disclosure Act of 2009.
Changing Spending
- To meet your budget you may need to change your spending habits.
Business Credit Report
- Is your personal credit score tied to your business credit?
Board Responsibilities 2
- Second in a series on responsibilites of board members.
Beetles in Firewood
- Mountain Pine Beetles can infest your trees from your firewood.
Best Annuals for Wyoming's High Altitudes
- Horticultural plants for high altitudes.
Generations in the Workplace
- Managing generational differences in the workplace
Market Study
- Research and planning for your market when starting a new business
Landscaping for Backyard Wildlife
- What wildlife would you like in your backyard?
Fall Clean Up part 2
- How to reduce insects, crawlers, and diseases that invade your home in the fall.
Employer Leadership
- How to increase employee performance with improved employer leadership.
Fall Clean Up
- How to reduce insects and crawlers that invade your home in the fall.
Fall Lawn Care
- This podcast focuses on techniques to apply in the fall to maintain a healthy lawn.
Replacement Heifer Selection
- Bill provides information on replacement heifer selection.
Black shale hill sides
- Bill responds to a question of what to do with the black shale hill sides found throughout Weston County.
Removing skunk odor from pets
- How to remove odor from pets when they have been sprayed by a skunk.
Agriculture in 1917
- A look at the history of agriculture from a book written in 1917.
What makes a good supervisor?
- Bill Taylor talks about what makes a good supervisor.
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