Workshops

Learn about the resources available to county offices to help answer the home gardening questions that come into county Extension offices every day! Your gardening questions will be answered too!

(Presenter: Aaron Steil, Consumer Horticulture Extension Specialist)
North Prairie Room

Learn how your personal preferences impact the systems you choose to build your productivity. Many practical tips will be shared on email strategies, task management, and managing your calendar.

(Presenter: Bonnie Dalager, 4-H Educational Resource Development Specialist)
Meadow rooms

The Everything DiSC Workplace model is an excellent assessment tool to help improve workplace email communication. Each personality type has its work style tendencies, preferences, and dislikes, both for sending and receiving messages, which can lead to misunderstandings or conflicts. During this workshop, we will review the 4 basic DiSC styles as they relate to email correspondence and see how your DiSC style fits in the picture! Participants don’t have to have already taken the Everything DiSC assessment to attend, but some knowledge of DiSC is preferred. This workshop will be interactive and is an introductory level session.

(Presenter: Alison DePenning, Program Specialist and Julie Hlas, Advancement Specialist, Professional Development)
Gold room

A step by step process on captioning while using Adobe Premiere Pro

(Presenter: Max Moore, Video Producer, Extension and Outreach)
Cardinal room

Meet some of Extension’s IT experts during this workshop, where they review all that EIT can do for you, including program installation, ordering new equipment, storage, calendaring, and plans if your office is moving.

(Steven Netcott, Systems Analyst II, and Vincent Gregory, Systems Analyst II, Extension Information Technology)
Gold room

Magicians are individuals with an almost inhuman set of skills to make the impossible seem possible. In your MyData Magic session, you will learn how MyData works – the behind the scenes action – so you can dazzle your audiences and showcase all the work being done effortlessly, and with a hint of mystery.

(Presenter: Amanda Eggers, MyData Database Administrator, Program Development and Evaluation Unit)
Meadow rooms

The Everything DiSC Workplace model is an excellent assessment tool to help improve workplace email communication. Each personality type has its work style tendencies, preferences, and dislikes, both for sending and receiving messages, which can lead to misunderstandings or conflicts. During this workshop, we will review the 4 basic DiSC styles as they relate to email correspondence and see how your DiSC style fits in the picture! Participants don’t have to have already taken the Everything DiSC assessment to attend, but some knowledge of DiSC is preferred. This workshop will be interactive and is an introductory level session.

(Presenter: Alison DePenning, Program Specialist and Julie Hlas, Advancement Specialist, Professional Development)
North Prairie Room

A step by step process on captioning while using Adobe Premiere Pro

(Presenter: Max Moore, Video Producer, Extension and Outreach)
Cardinal room

Meet some of Extension’s IT experts during this workshop, where they review all that EIT can do for you, including program installation, ordering new equipment, storage, calendaring, and plans if your office is moving.

(Steven Netcott, Systems Analyst II, and Vincent Gregory, Systems Analyst II, Extension Information Technology)

Gold room

Magicians are individuals with an almost inhuman set of skills to make the impossible seem possible. In your MyData Magic session, you will learn how MyData works – the behind the scenes action – so you can dazzle your audiences and showcase all the work being done effortlessly, and with a hint of mystery.

(Presenter: Amanda Eggers, MyData Database Administrator, Program Development and Evaluation Unit)
Meadow rooms

If you provide assistant bookkeeping for your county, this session is for you! We can’t wait to share tips and tricks to help build teamwork and communication between you and your external bookkeeper. In this session we will be covering accounting basics, what items your external bookkeeper needs from you, and other bookkeeping topics.

(Presenters: Meri Skala, Accountant; Tiffany Magstadt, Accountant; Dianne Dirks, Pocahontas County Office Manager and External Bookkeeper; Lynda Marshall, External Bookkeeper; Teresa Stansbury, External Bookkeeper; Amber DeRosear, External Bookkeeper)
North Prairie Room

Staff and extension councils are a team when it comes to the county programs offered by Extension and Outreach. Learn more about the elected officials that serve as extension council members, the structure that guides their decisions, and how county staff can best work with councils in a productive relationship.

(Presenters: Jennifer Vit, Executive Director, Iowa Extension Council Association)
Cardinal room