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LIBRARY MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE (LMI) SUMMER CONFERENCE 2011 ARCADIA UNIVERSITY, GLENSIDE, PA (07.11.2011) Albert S. Municino, BS, SLMS, MLIS Librarian / Educational Media Specialist Hudson County Community College Jersey City, New Jersey Email: municino@gmail.com Twitter: @alberoli Web: http://infodesk.posterous.com
Seminar/Workshop Agenda
1. Introduction | Leadership competencies 2. Defining leadership and facilitation 3. Exploring leader types 4. Facilitative Leadership Core Values 5. Facilitative Quiz (4 Questions) 6. Introduction to Library Ecology concept
*Le Roi est mort, vive le Roi! The King is dead. Long live the king! Le mort saisit le vif The dead seize the living.
Library as place Library as concept End-user expectations up Budgets down A face in the information crowd Reclaiming library mantle Consortial strategies Everyday strategies Complacency Proactive engagement Save users time Lead, follow, or quit
Cognitive Ability Problem solving; decision making; reflective thinking Vision Global thinking; creative/innovative; forward thinking
Interpersonal Effectiveness Culturally competent; accountability; team building; development; inspirational/motivational; communication skills Managerial Effectiveness Manage change; resource management; strategic planning; collaboration; flexibility/adaptability + Personal Attributes Principled/ethical; honest; humble; gracious; teachable
...help foster thinking, acting and leading creatively. Having more than one correct answer for yourself Is another facet of recognizing yourself as a leader. The ability to re-think and re-define situations, problems, and ourselves, or anything in our lives is a vital and important component of leadership.
Defining leadership
Leadership is: 1. the office or position of a leader 2. (the) capacity to lead 3. the act or instance of leading*
*Merriam-Webster.com:
Defining facilitative
Facilitative is: 1. providing service or assistance 2. tending to promote or assist the development of something*
*Merriam-Webster.com
2. Free and informed choice Free of pressures from outside forces Decision/Commitment Ownership (VI) Societal/Organizational (Strategy AM)
3. Internal Commitment (VI | F&IC) Steps Completed Open to Re-thinking Decisions Open to Non-Supportive Information
4. Compassion Temporarily Suspend Judgement Genuine Concern & Interest Acknowledgement & Empathy
Facilitative leadership helps people to better understand each other so that common goals can be established, agreed upon, committed to, and reached. ---Thomas L. Moore
Test assumptions Share all relevant information Use specific examples & agree on what important words mean Explain your reasoning and intent Focus on interests, not positions Combine advocacy and inquiry Jointly design next steps and ways to test disagreements Discuss un-discussable issues Use a decision-making rule that generates the level of commitment
*Roger Schwarz
1. You need to give some negative feedback to Pam, one of your direct reports. You(a, b, or c).
2. Youre designing a 360-degree feedback system for your organization. To ensure that people get useful feedback, you(a or b).
4. Whenever you and your team are solving a problem together, team members stop sharing different views after you express yours. To address that problem, you... (a, b, c, or d).
Post-quiz brief discussion Long Live the Library!: Introduction to Library Ecology
Self-Awareness (Test, read, experience) Vision (Inner/Outer, share, engage) Eco-connection (People, environment)
Facilitative+ Leadership
Facilitation+ Leader/Manager Toolkit (All):
Eco/Self-Awareness (Empathy/Experiential) Leadership Development (Immerse, PD) Practice on pilot library projects (Create)
User/Advocate Partners
Educating Staff, Users, Advocates:
Identifying (List, Expand, Enhance) Improving (Assess, Discuss) Innovating (Pilot, Technology)
Planning (Write, Edit, Interpret) Purchasing (Vendor Relations, Discussions) Production (Digital Content, Pilots)
Mission & Vision (Proving Ground) Curricula (Educational Practice) Standards (Matching Rubric)
Leaders
The cover slide for this presentation is an image derivative of an original period photograph by Stanford White (Architect), described as "New York University library (before conversion) to Bronx Community College." and attributable to Durova under the Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Creative Commons license.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronx_Community_College The original work is from 1904 and is in the public domain.