Supervision and management

You can create the library workplace you want –– where focused, motivated, and self-directed employees want to come to work, develop, and grow. You can learn to coach to get these results. Coaching is an employee-centered and time-focused process. It helps you help others create a realistic prescription for change, using tools, your experience, your guidance, career-path mentoring, and continuing support.

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

People won't know what your library is up to or why they should support it unless you tell them! The ability to deliver an effective presentation – formal or informal, to library insiders or lay people, prepared or impromptu – is an important job skill, and one that doesn't come naturally to most people. Do you want to

Mar - Jun 2006

Libraries, library boards, and library advocacy/support groups everywhere are scrambling to strengthen and diversify their revenues. If fundraising is a priority for your library, you'll want to learn