Webinar Schedule and Participant Guide
Webinar Dates
Mon Jan 11, 2021, 7-8:30pm Eastern, and each Mon after that until the final webinar on Mon Feb 15, 2021.. Please mark these dates and times in your calendar! If you miss the live webinars, the recordings will be posted in the course afterward.
To access the webinars, you will simply need to click on the webinar join link that is posted in each week of the course. This link only works on the appointed day and time for that webinar, so while you can try clicking it sooner, it won't open the webinar meeting for you. You may also join our webinars from a mobile device by installing the Zoom app. Then, along with the webinar join link each week, we'll post the meeting ID. This is a 9-digit number you would need to enter in your Zoom app to join the live session with us.
The link for the webinar will be the same each week:
https://cornell.zoom.us/j/94148302382?pwd=UW50OWE3K0VRcGdRMlRnbjFMQ2pPUT09
Meeting ID: 941 4830 2382
Passcode: 464331
Weekly Topics
Week 1: Overview
Topics covered: Course expectations, student introductions, intro to the Holistic Financial Planning process, work on creating an individual Farm/Family Goal.
Week 2: Assessing the past
Topics covered: Assessing last year’s progress and identifying logjams, adverse factors, & financial weak links, understanding the utility of brainstorming, test potential courses of action toward your Farm/Family Goal.
Week 3: Income and Profit
Topics covered: How to plan income & profit, completing a balance sheet, determining net worth.
Week 4: Plan and Prioritize
Topics covered: Understanding how to plan, prioritize & cut expenses in your farm enterprise
Week 5: Balancing and cash flow
Topics covered: Understanding how to balance a plan, do a cash flow analysis & the value of post-plan Net Worth as an indicator of your progress over time.
Week 6: Wrap-up
Topics covered: Reviewing any remaining unclear concepts/procedures in a Q&A. Reviewing completed or in-progress plans. Learning a monitoring protocol. Open-Participant Topic discussion. Future training opportunities and other next steps.