Self-Care and Increasing Productivity While Avoiding Burnout
Increasing demands from our public for various library services can create an environment for burnout as a result of heavy workloads. While some stressors are unavoidable, prolonged exposure to stress can cause detachment, pessimism, and a loss of enjoyment...
Building CQ: Understanding Cultural Intelligence
You’ve heard of IQ and EQ, but what about CQ? Cultural Intelligence (CQ) refers to our ability to function effectively across national, ethnic, and even organizational cultural boundaries. Cultural Intelligence involves four interdependent...
The Neuroscience of Making
Making and Makerspaces been growing in popularity in schools and libraries over the last few years. Opportunities for student-driven exploration and tinkering seem intuitively appealing to many teachers and librarians, and it turns out there are very good...
Programming and Modeling: Bringing Entrepreneurs into the Library with LinkedIn
With more than 27 million small business and more than 50 million entrepreneurs in the United States (http://infomory.com/numbers/number-of-entrepreneurs-in-us/) there is a huge opportunity for your library to serve this growing and education hungry population with...
Shifting Our Gaze from Service to Impact: What’s Changing in Academic Liaison Librarianship
More than ever, college and university success is driven by impact measures that demonstrate value to funders and stakeholders. Libraries depend on subject and liaison librarians to know what stakeholders need, and use these insights to shape services and...
Communicate Smarter and Better
Speaking is one of the first things people learn to do. But learning to speak does not equate learning how to communicate, which can have a serious affect on individual careers and success. Communication is arguably one of the most important business skills, no...
The Difference Between Discussion, Debate and Dialogue and How to Use It to Build Healthy Workplaces
Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but there are healthy limits to how far staff (co-workers and bosses) can take their opinions. All too often, we forget to encourage a healthy dialogue and turn the conversation into a debate of one idea or belief versus...
Overcoming the Challenges of Working at Home for the Employee and the Manager
Part 1: How to Stay Productive and Positive When Working RemotelySuddenly, you’re thrown into a work-at-home situation with little preparation or possibly without any. Want to understand how to make working remotely easier, while staying productive? This...
Self Care During a Crisis: Breathe, Think and Grow
As libraries deal with the global crisis of 2020, staff have many difficult choices to handle every day. From deciding whether to stay open to managing the constant flow of information, the work can be all-consuming. In this webinar, we will talk about how to take...
How to Get Things Done When You’re Not the Boss
Sometimes you’re not in charge. You cannot tell people what to do. Yet you still need their help to do your job. Yes, it’s possible to get results, influence others, and lead projects without being a boss. But how? By establishing a reputation for integrity and...
An Introduction to Universal Design for Learning
According to CAST, “Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a framework to improve and optimize teaching and learning for all people based on scientific insights into how humans learn.” In this interactive and informative session, Lauren will introduce the...
The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom – Revisited (Part 1-4, 15 Minutes Segments)
The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom is a self-help book from 1997 by bestselling author Don Miguel Ruiz. The book takes inspiration from a set of spiritual beliefs held by the ancient Toltec people to help readers transform their lives...
Young Professionals Webinar: Seven Workplace Concepts…Learned the Hard Way
Handout What is something that all of us have and that we work really hard to perfect, but now, due to our technology, it can be damaged as quick as 10 seconds?I’m looking forward to giving you the answer to this riddle and more when I present “Seven...
The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom – Revisited
The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom is a self-help book from 1997 by bestselling author Don Miguel Ruiz. The book takes inspiration from a set of spiritual beliefs held by the ancient Toltec people to help readers transform their lives...
A Guide to Understanding the Body Language of Others
Looking for a better understanding of Body Language? In this program you’ll discover how posture, gestures, facial expression, and feet (yes, feet) play a vital role in the underlying feelings behind a person’s body language. To help you decode the emotions behind the...
Better Libraries and Stronger Communities Through Kindness, Empathy, and Love
Workplaces that emphasize a culture of kindness, empathy and love have lower staff turnover and greater effectiveness. This culture ripples out from individuals to others in the workplace, to patrons and throughout the community. This interactive and informative...
How To Address Passive-Aggressive Behavior in the Library Workplace
The array of bothersome behaviors lumped under the label of “passive-aggressive” is easier to describe than define: 1. You assign a task, the employee or co-worker agrees, but it never gets done.2. When you ask what’s wrong, they tell you “everything is good” but it’s...
Personnel Skills for Library Managers and Supervisors
This webinar covers these six critical skills every library leader needs to have. Dr. Steve Albrecht will discuss the value of each, using practical definitions, examples, and ways to apply them for library staff members. 1. Safe and Legal Hiring Practices:...
Putting the “Relationship” in Media Relations
. Libraries rely on earned media coverage as a way to get the word out about their services and programs. However, as the media landscape shifts and shrinks, we can no longer rely on traditional tactics like press releases to garner media coverage. Using case studies,...
Persuasive Writing
Masterful communicators craft their documents mindful of the tenuous territory they have entered when presuming to have the power of persuasion. How do you recommend a course of action for their customers or managers without appearing too aggressive? This...