Overcoming Adversity – The Path to Resilience
This interactive storytelling session encompasses Oleg’s personal journey of overcoming adversity and is filled with actionable and applicable steps that attendees can use to develop self-efficacy, optimism, resilience, hope and sense of purpose during times of...
Teaching Online: Tips for Moving Your Face-to-Face Instruction Online
In the spring of 2020, many of us had to quickly adjust our teaching from a face-to-face setting to an online environment without time to reflect on how to do that well. In this session, Lauren Hays will share her tips for teaching online. She will share...
Leading During a Crisis ~ How to Be Proactive During a Crisis – Part 3
Building upon knowledge of crisis communication, effective leadership, and different crisis planning strategies, this presentation explores how to use this knowledge in a proactive manner. Participants will learn how to identify opportunities, navigate...
How to Stay Positive and Slay the Negative Dragons in Challenging Times
Inevitably, each of us faces situations that threaten to break our spirit, if not cloud our overall outlook on life. Illness, the loss of a loved one, and the premature end of a job, among countless other circumstances, challenge our ability to navigate life in their...
Learning on the Fly: Responding to the Need for Remote Training, Remotely
During the summer and fall of 2020, parents and caregivers struggled to support students learning remotely. With schooling models changing constantly and caregivers confronted with new technology, Twinsburg Public Library was in a unique position to provide...
Everything I need to know about Library Leadership I learned in Youth Services
The everyday work of a Youth Services Librarians is the best training ground to develop leadership skills that are integral to library management and executive positions. In this informative and interactive presentation, Lucia Gonzalez, City Library Director at the...
Learning to Love and Leverage a Remote Workplace
The current pandemic has forced many workplaces to operate remotely. How do you conduct productive meetings, manage staff, and move projects forward in this environment? What tools can help foster engagement and collaboration? Our speakers will examine best practices...
English for Nonnative Professionals
English for Nonnative Writers helps business professionals with a sound approach to writing effective business documents in Standard English. This webinar lays a foundation to help nonnative speakers of any language to strengthen their basic English skills. It covers...
How to Teach Civilly in an Uncivil Environment
Conspiracy theories, misinformation, cyberbullying, arguments and much more happen online every second of the day. Librarians frequently interact with their patrons in this fraught environment. How can we teach civil discourse with so much incivility? Carrie...
Strategic Planning: A Simple 6-Step Process
Library leaders expend time, money, and energy on strategic planning, yet so many strategic plans fail to drive motivation, effort or change. By building on a simple 6-step process and exploring their reasons for planning, libraries of all sizes can lead a...
The Person in the Mirror
Whether it’s what we have for breakfast, when we go to sleep, how we treat others, how we do our work, or any of a hundred other areas in our everyday lives, the choices we make do indeed impact our days. And those choices are not typically forced upon us by others,...
Intentional Blindspots: Are You Seeing Only What You Want to See?
To be fair, I must share a disclaimer here…the term “intentional blindspots” is one made up by yours truly (as far as I know!). It came to mind as I was observing a friend being adamant about something that wasn’t even remotely true – and the physical evidence was...
Staying Relevant in the Library Profession
Do you feel pressure from your employer, potential employer, educational program, or even yourself to expand your resume and your knowledge as it relates to library and information science? If so, join “Landing a Library Job” author, Deloris Foxworth,...
How Your Language Rules Your Mind
When we hear someone say, “Watch your language,” we often think of cursing, intentionally belittling someone, or being defensive. And of course, we need to watch our language regarding those areas. Have you ever considered, though, how you talk to yourself? Or about...
Working Out: Building Your Confidence Muscle
If you look up the definition of confidence, you’ll see something along the lines of “self-assurance” or a mention of appreciating our own abilities and qualities. Perhaps it seems that should be a given in the library world, considering we are surrounded by...
What Would You Do: Strategies for Dealing with Implicit Bias in the Workplace
How do we, as managers and leaders, foster a healthy, inclusive work environment so all employees can succeed? Individuals with diverse backgrounds are being subjected to subtle and overt bias in the workplace due to the divisive climate in which we live. There isn’t...
What to Expect When You’re Constructing
Considering a renovation project and don’t know where to start? Hoping to suggest a renovation project to library administration or Board? Learn the basics of construction and renovation projects to ensure yours will be a success! Consultant and former Director...
21 Things To Do For Yourself in 2021
Many of us are in the habit of being busy. So busy in fact, that we leave little time for ourselves which can lead us to a less fulfilling life than we had dreamed and believed was possible.A New Year approaching is an opportunity to stop, breathe and reflect on who...
The Power of Words
Want to have more engaging conversations with your peers and patrons? Want to learn the words to avoid because they initiate resistance? This webinar is for you! Words weld extreme power. More so when non-verbal actions can’t offset a miscommunicated vocabulary...
Recognition & Gratitude: Why It Matters to Our Customers, Community and Profession
“Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.” - William Arthur Ward No doubt about it, this year has been a rollercoaster ride of emotional uncertainty and almost daily wonders of what might happen next with the...