LESSONS LEARNED FROM LIVESTOCK
A workshop presented by Vickie J. Maris
Vickie Maris has been involved with many different teams along her career path while also running a small farm where she raises and trains Connemara ponies and show llamas for halter, hiking, and performance. From agricultural PR and marketing, to designing and delivering distance education programs, to running a successful professional development program in Engineering Professional Education at Purdue University, Vickie will share ideas for facilitating successful project teams. The ideas descend from the merging of her corporate, academic, and farming worlds. Through discussions, photos, video vignettes of the livestock in action, and anecdotes directly from the farm, the right side of your brain will be hopping with ideas and tools for encouraging your teams, valuing the diversity of team members, and fostering the growth of the projects in which they participate.
Come away from this session with ideas for:
- Nurturing healthy team environments
- Recognizing and valuing the diversity of roles and skill sets of team members
- Getting your team unstuck and back on a productive path
- Capitalizing on the variety of assets brought to the table by the varied generations in the workforce today
- Recognizing and rewarding your teams
Vickie Maris has been involved with many different teams along her career path while also running a small farm where she raises and trains Connemara ponies and show llamas for halter, hiking, and performance. From agricultural PR and marketing, to designing and delivering distance education programs, to running a successful professional development program in Engineering Professional Education at Purdue University, Vickie will share ideas for facilitating successful project teams. The ideas descend from the merging of her corporate, academic, and farming worlds. Through discussions, photos, video vignettes of the livestock in action, and anecdotes directly from the farm, the right side of your brain will be hopping with ideas and tools for encouraging your teams, valuing the diversity of team members, and fostering the growth of the projects in which they participate.
Come away from this session with ideas for:
- Nurturing healthy team environments
- Recognizing and valuing the diversity of roles and skill sets of team members
- Getting your team unstuck and back on a productive path
- Capitalizing on the variety of assets brought to the table by the varied generations in the workforce today
- Recognizing and rewarding your teams
Vickie J. Maris
Presenter Bio
Vickie Maris is active on many teams – from her role at Purdue University where she leads the staff and faculty who create the certificate courses and programs offered for professional development in Engineering Professional Education to the team she works with in designing and developing courses for online delivery to adult learners. Her Lean Six Sigma team was honored in 2010 with the Staff Team Award for outstanding accomplishment and collaboration in the College of Engineering at Purdue.
She has served on the board of the Conference on Management, Executive and Professional Development (CMED), and, she is a Certified Master Trainer of Zenger-Miller Facilitation Skills. In this role, she has trained other facilitators at Purdue University.
Vickie is a professional animal handler and trainer and has shown animals since her youth. She and her husband, Scott, run a hobby-size farm in Battle Ground, Indiana where they live with four Connemaras, a herd of llamas, three cats, a Jack Russell Terrier, and three goldfish. Several of the llamas she has trained have been recognized in the Top 10 in the nation in the International Lama Registry Universal Awards Program in several categories. Her Connemara pony stallion, also trained by Vickie, was honored in 2002 with the An Tostal Hall of Fame Trophy by the American Connemara Pony Society for Outstanding Performance.
Vickie earned a B.S. degree in agricultural communications and an M.S. Ed in learning design and technology from Purdue.
