Leadership

How is your track record for leading library projects that finish on time, under budget, at an agreed-upon level of quality, and with everyone still speaking to one another? In this course you will learn how to:

• Are you finding the challenge of leading a team to be more challenging than you thought?
• Are you troubled with unwanted team member behaviors and attitudes?
• Are some team members acting more like “Lone Rangers” than you’d like them too?
• Do you believe that your teams could be more productive and efficient?
• Have they done better in the past?

With this announcement for the free workshop on "Exploring Library Leadership," Infopeople is pleased to mark the beginning of another round of the Eureka! Leadership Program. Briefly, the Program consists of four phases, i.e.:

• Have you been considering "Moving into Management"?
• How do you know if you are ready?
• What problems do new managers encounter and how do you deal with them?

A significant trend in today's library environment is the imminent retirement of library baby boomer managers. More and more openings will be occurring in all types of libraries. There are opportunities for advancement in all types of libraries and for library support staff as well as librarians with master's degrees.

Over the last nine months, Infopeople has offered a series of workshops designed to encourage the development of leadership within the California library profession. These workshops have focused on specific skills such as team leadership, problem solving and decision making, and stimulating creativity. Many people have taken at least two of these workshops, and we have heard that participants in the program are interested in an opportunity to:

(An Infopeople Online Learning Course)
July 24, 2007 - August 20, 2007

"Congratulations, you've been promoted and you're now a supervisor!"

Property taxes, impact fees, outsourcing: are all these terms familiar but you don't really understand what they mean to your library? Worried you'll confront creating your first library budget and not know where to start? Strategic Financial Thinking provides practical information about public library budgeting, revenue sources, outsourcing proposals, budget cutting, and long term strategies for achieving financial stability.

How do you create an idea-friendly environment within a library system? Ideas can come from anyone, anywhere but like tiny seedlings they also can wither and die quickly if not protected. This workshop will give you tools and processes to help nourish your own ideas and those of others … even in typically bureaucratic environments. This workshop for library community managers, innovators and emerging leaders who want to enhance their own creativity and who want to be able to lead for creativity and innovation will learn to:

Change is often necessary but seldom comfortable. Nevertheless, library leaders are expected to be agents of change. In this course you will learn a proven approach to the complex process of leading organizational change, including

Good decision-making is an essential skill for effective leadership. If you learn to make timely and well-considered decisions, you can lead your team to well-deserved success. This workshop will introduce you to practical tools and techniques that can help you solve problems and make the best decisions possible using the time and information you have available. You will learn how to