Linking the role of frontline manager to the rest of the organization, managers and administrators should learn the skills of mentoring, team-building, decision-making, taking charge, and working and communicating with staff at all levels. The guide demonstrates how you can: define your role in the broader context of your organization's mission; foster a team atmosphere; communicate and apply strategies within your department; and serve as a catalyst for success.

Practical Strategies for Library Managers

Giesecke, Joan

Reference

ALA Editions

Library managers and supervisors face staffing decisions every day. When priorities change quickly - whether relating to diversity, legal challenges, new technology, or simply a desire to build an exciting team and bring people together to do their best - it takes more than good intentions to achieve results. Two experienced library managers explain how to create a productive work place, as they weave practical advice and expert commentary into an easy-to-use resource. Drawing both from common sense and from the experience and insights of the pros, they address an increasingly turbulent library environment. They focus on daily, real-world practices with: Specific strategies for brand-new supervisory staff; Tips for encouraging a positive work ethic, maintaining productivity, and building teamwork; Proven advice on practical supervisory issues like hiring, firing, interviewing, training; Policies and procedures that maintain fairness while addressing potential legal landmines; Guiding supervisors through the intricate process of managing others, this comprehensive handbook addresses the fundamental issues facing new managers. It also serves as a welcome refresher and reference for experienced managers facing new challenges in the complex and changing environments in their libraries.

Fundamentals of Library Supervision (Fundamentals Series)

McNeil, Beth

In this title, two experienced library managers explain how to create a productive workplace as they weave expert advice and commentary into an easy-to-use resource. This revised edition focuses on daily, real-world practices offering: specific strategies for new supervisory staff; hundreds of tips for encouraging a positive work ethic, maintaining productivity, and building teamwork; proven advice on practical supervisory issues like hiring, firing, interviewing, and training; and, policies and procedures that maintain fairness while addressing potential legal landmines. Guiding supervisors through the intricate process of managing others, this comprehensive handbook addresses the fundamental issues facing new managers. It also serves as a welcome refresher and reference for experienced managers facing new challenges in this complex and changing environment.

Fundamentals of Library Supervision

Practical Help for New Supervisors

Business & Money

American Library Association

In scenario planning, you develop stories about possible futures. Stories encourage an imaginative team approach to designing strategies that move the organization forward no matter what the future holds. You may apply scenario planning in a large-scale stategic overhaul, as described in the case study of Arlington County (Virginia) Public Libraries, or you may use it to address a specific issue, as described in the consideration of a student technology fee at a major research university. Scenario Planning for Libraries applies this successful model from the business world to the unique library environment.

Scenario Planning For Libraries

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Emotional intelligence (EI), as based on the work of Daniel Goleman and his colleagues, has received a lot of attention in the Harvard Business Review and elsewhere as a leadership theory. It is composed of five domains: Knowing your emotions, Managing your emotions, Motivating yourself, Recognizing and understanding other people's emotions, and Managing relationships (managing the emotions of others). Its practitioners become particularly adept at managing the mood and performance of both their organizations and themselves.In Academic Librarians as Emotionally Intelligent Leaders, Hernon and company present a solid overview of EI, its connection to other leadership theories, and its particular application to academic librarianship. By moving beyond basic people skills, they claim, library leaders can come to appreciate not only the unique challenges of personal and organizational growth, but how their own reactions and feelings are perceived by others. Particularly noteworthy is a strong focus on issues of diversity, including a chapter on how librarians of color regularly engage in self-renewal and restoration.

Academic Librarians as Emotionally Intelligent Leaders

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Hernon, Peter

Alire, Camila A.

Psychology & Counseling

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