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Professional Development Resources for Library Staff & Board Members November 2019 |
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Employees motivated to deliver top notch service are key to a library’s success. But many in library organizations don’t know how to effectively instigate employee motivation. As a critical management and leadership skill, it’s important to know what motivation is and isn't, what works and what doesn’t. In this session, we’ll explore factors that influence motivation at work and review strategies for supervisors to keep their teams motivated and productive. No matter the size of your library or your role, you will be inspired to find your own motivation and be able to catalyze others!
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November 12 - December 9 $200 US
This four-week online course will provide you with basic information and resources on the most important interpersonal skills needed to be an effective supervisor. Through assignments and discussions, you will learn about personality and communication styles in the workplace and how a supervisor can use them to get the most out of his or her employees. We’ll talk about coaching and mentoring, and about how to give constructive feedback. During the course, you will be able to share experiences and questions in discussion forums and one live online meeting, and the instructor will provide you with resources that you can keep and refer to in your own library situation.
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Many researchers have tried to identify leadership qualities. While there seems to be no one leadership type of personality, qualities common to many leaders have been identified. This tutorial discusses the personal qualities and skills one must possess or develop to become an effective leader.
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*subscription required (provided free to all Marigold member library cardholders)
Today's managers understand the importance of bridging generation gaps—uniting traditionalists, baby boomers, Generation X, and millennials. But many fail to recognize that a new generation is here. Generation Z is significantly different than its predecessors: more realistic, competitive, and motivated. So how are managers going to adapt to the needs of these workers and future leaders? Join experts David Stillman and Jonah Stillman, a father and son team spanning Gen X and Gen Z, to learn what makes Gen Z unique as employees. Explore how Gen Z communicates, collaborates, receives feedback, and derives value from work. Using David and Jonah's tips, you'll be better prepared to recruit, retain, and manage this incredibly unique and diverse generation.
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Learn how to effectively manage common tricky situations in the workplace with this supervision skills course.
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Edmonton, AB | November 19 OR Calgary, AB | November 21 $299
Based on the book, The Culture Question, this workshop provides a guide for how every organization can increase employee engagement and become a great place to work. Unfortunately, far too many people don’t like where they work. Some organizations are unhealthy and full of disrespectful behaviour. Other workplaces are simply uninspiring. For various reasons, countless people feel trapped, indifferent, or bored at work. The secret to creating workplaces where people like to work is leadership and culture. By exploring six key elements that make up a healthy workplace culture, participants will learn the answers to two fundamental questions: “How does your organization’s culture impact how much people like where they work?” and “What can leaders do to make it better?”
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Library management 101 : a practical guide by Lisa K. HusseyNewly revised and updated, this book pulls together management best practices from library management experts teaching in LIS programs across the U.S. and Canada. Among the many topics discussed are classic and contemporary theories of management, and how they apply to the library; human resource planning; marketing and public relations; negotiations, mediation, and financial management of the library; facilities management; information technology management and future trends; change management, organizational culture; and ethics and confidentiality.In addition to providing students with a solid foundation in library management, with its structured, practical knowledge this impressive volume will also benefit experienced managers.
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Depression is one of the most commonly experienced mental health concerns. The symptoms can become overwhelming, self-perpetuating, and lead to feelings of helplessness. This webinar will review the differences between “feeling down” and clinical depression. What depression looks like, and factors that may influence the development of depression will be explored.
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Recognition and Reward is present in a workplace where there is appropriate acknowledgement, appreciation and recognition in a fair and timely manner. Create a psychologically safe and healthy workplace using these tips from the National Standard: http://www.mentalhealthcommission.ca/.... For more information about resources, visit www.haveTHATtalk.ca. |
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November 12 | 11:00am - 12:00pm (MT)
Social media channels can help you amplify the message of your fundraising campaigns. What’s important is to understand how to make the most of each social media platform.
This webinar will look at the latest trends in social media fundraising and how to improve the success of your campaigns. Topics include: - How to use every social channel in your fundraising campaign
- Best practices on making your fundraising more social
- The latest trends in social media marketing and how they affect nonprofits
- How to build a funnel for your social fundraising content
- Successful examples of using social media in fundraising
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November 14 | 11:00am - 11:45am (MT)
Online fundraising is the fasting growing segment of giving. Donors of all ages are using their smartphones, tablets, and computers to connect with causes and to give money to fundraising campaigns. During this free nonprofit webinar, you'll learn the tactics to successfully raise money online for your nonprofit, even if you are a small or midsize organization.
This webinar will detail the basics of an online fundraising campaign; how social media & online tools can be used to raise more money; ways you can fit online giving into your long-term strategy; and Julia’s 10 steps to online fundraising success! |
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Charity Village November 28 | 11:00am - 12:00pm (MT)
Storytelling is the key to bringing your cause and mission to life. Neurological science has proven beyond any doubt that storytelling is the single most powerful tool that fundraisers can use to engage, inspire and persuade donors and prospects to give. Join master storyteller Fraser Green as he describes what a story actually is, how it works and how to build it from the ground up to help you become a more powerful and persuasive storyteller for your organization’s fundraising program!
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December 3 | 11:00am - 11:45am (MT)
As the calendar year begins to wind down and you think about the new year, are you also thinking about how to strengthen your grant seeking strategy in the upcoming year? Starting your year off with a strong plan and clear goals in place will ensure that you secure the funding necessary to achieve your goals for grant revenue.
Participating in “Start Your 2020 Grant Seeking Off Right!” will provide you with a strong understanding of your success in 2019 and how to set goals for 2020 that will help expand your grant seeking strategy and revenue. We will also discuss how to increase the engagement of your colleagues in being part of the grant planning process to further increase your success. |
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December 4 | 12:00pm - 1:00pm (MT)
Are you new to proposal writing or want a quick refresher? If so, you don't want to miss one of our most popular classes!
This class will provide you with an overview of how to write a standard project proposal to a foundation. It will include: - The basic elements of a proposal
- The "do's" and "don'ts" of writing and submitting a proposal
- How to follow up whether the answer is yes or no
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Need to write a grant proposal but don't know where to start? We've got you covered. In this 60-minute webinar, librarian/grant-writing extraordinaire Tracy Herold will cover the basics of grant writing so you can start writing that outstanding proposal for your library.
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The Grant Writing and Funding Coach : Target and Acquire the Funds You Need by Deborah GriffithsThe Grant Writing and Funding Coach is a framework for you to present your project in a clear and confident style, establish a rapport with funders and succeed with your proposal. It reveals how individuals, non-profits, local governments, and community organizations build bridges with funders. In this small but powerful book, you'll find short narrative and budget summaries for your review and checklists for staying organized while you're going through the application process. |
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November 7 | 10:00am - 11:00am (MT) OR November 20 | 12:00pm - 1:00pm (MT)
New to LibraryAware? Join us for an overview of the many ways you can use LibraryAware to quickly create professional-looking promotional materials for your library. We’ll show you step-by-step how to use our most popular templates for print, email and social media so you’ll be ready to start creating right away. With our new drag and drop editor, working in LibraryAware has never been faster or easier!
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November 7 | 11:00am - 12:00pm (MT)
Opening up a social media account is easy. Coming up with consistent and engaging content that your supporters will love? Not so much. Facebook. Twitter. Instagram. LinkedIn. Searching for new content, leveraging awareness days for your cause, creating your own content, liking, sharing, commenting...You are running as fast as you can on the overwhelming content hamster wheel but it feels like you can never catch up.
This webinar, specifically presented for nonprofit staff and volunteers, will help you to create your content strategically using a 5 pillar framework that will strengthen your brand, build your authority online, and save you capacity during the day. |
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December 10 | 10:00am - 11:00am (MT)
Not sure how to balance being professional and being fun on social media? Looking to grow your platforms interactivity and audience? Jordan Hanzon, Marketing & PR Assistant for the J. Willard Marriott Library, has some tips, tricks, and advice on how to go about that.
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Want more exposure on your Instagram Stories? Do you know what to do and what to avoid with IG Stories hashtags? In this video, Instagram expert Jenn Herman provides you with a step-by-step guide to getting more exposure on your Instagram Stories with hashtags.
You’ll discover how hashtags work differently on Stories, which types of hashtags to use, how many to use, and how hashtags impact your search exposure. |
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Episode 18
In this episode, we answer a question from Megan from the Redford Township District Library in Michigan. She asks, "I'm brand new! New to the Redford library and new to the Library realm in general. I am two years out of college and my most recent marketing experience is in the automotive field (very different ). I am wondering where do I start? Tips & tricks for just starting off?" I offer some advice and starting tips for Megan. Be sure to add your advice to the comments! Let's crowd source a great experience for Megan's first year as a library marketer!
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Episode 19 This episode goes with the post on Super Library Marketing about swag (read it here: http://bit.ly/2Pp8mTi). Get fun ideas for good swag for all your library marketing events. Be sure to COMMENT and tell everyone what your favorite swag purchase is! |
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November 5 | 11:00am - 12:00pm (MT) $65 US
Is your library interested in creating online tools like videos and infographics? This webinar outlines how the library at the University of California, Davis, formed a working group to strategically develop best practices for creating high quality instructional objects. They identified two types of instructional objects: static instructional objects are text and image tutorials and dynamic instructional objects offer audio and video. The working group laid the foundation and trained librarians across the organization to successfully create instructional objects that ensure the following elements: consistency & quality, instructional design & assessment, accessibility & ADA compliance, and metadata & archives.
If you have limited resources and would like to begin creating static instructional objects and video tutorials for your library this is a must see webinar because we will share our experience and resources with you. |
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 CELA Collections CELA (Centre for Equitable Library Access) November 12 | 11:00am - 12:00pm (MT) Through CELA, your library offers patrons with print disabilities access to over 700,000 titles in accessible formats, from picture books with braille for preschoolers to adult bestsellers in audio. In this webinar you will learn what’s in the collection, how materials are selected, and how you and your patrons can suggest titles. |
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November 21 | 11:00am - 12:00pm (MT)
Most of us have hectic, stressful, high-pressure jobs. How do we keep from letting it get to us or burn us out? Why is it that some people seem to be able to handle challenges with confidence, poise, and grace?
The secret is a quality that psychologists call resilience. In brief, it is the ability to overcome obstacles and quickly adapt to change. Psychologists have studied resilient people and discovered that it is learned, not genetic. On November 21 at 1 PM (ET), listen to Rich Brandt from RDR Group, who has studied this subject for over 20 years, and learn how you can become more resilient in work and life. |
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November 27 | 10:00am - 11:00am (MT) $65
This webinar provides important insights on building a strong and lasting diversity-valuing organizational culture which includes a priority on understanding and celebrating Indigenous Peoples to ensure that they feel welcomed, respected, heard, and valued as fully engaged and talented employees.
Learning Objectives: - Explain to HR Professionals, organizations, management, and employees of an organization the benefits of an Indigenous Diversity and Inclusion culture.
- Identifying Canada’s three distinct groups of Indigenous Peoples.
- Important key differences between the cultures of the Indigenous Peoples and mainstream Canadians.
- Highlights of the dominant cultural values of Canada’s Indigenous Peoples.
- Understanding the marginalization of Indigenous Peoples- both historic reasons and current reasons.
- Understanding the current problems experienced by Indigenous Peoples and why these challenges exist.
- The Federal Government’s “Recognition and Implementation of Rights Framework”.
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December 10 | 12:00pm - 1:00pm (MT)
You’ve been here before: You're delivering a presentation or training and you see your listeners' eyes glaze over. You ask yourself if your presentation is boring, or maybe just predictable. You know that, when people aren’t engaged, they don't pay attention and they're not learning. So how do you make sure that your audience will sit up and take notice the next time you’re presenting important information?
Join Sharon Bowman and explore "Brain-Based Presenting: Getting the Brain to Pay Attention" – an unforgettable webinar that will transform your training and presentation skills. A popular speaker and an expert on brain-based instruction, Sharon knows the secrets to making any content memorable – even when the topic is dry, technical, or very complex. Not only will you leave with tools you can put to immediate use, you’ll also receive dozens of free, web-based resources you can use to maximize the effectiveness of your next presentation, class, or training event. |
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In this webinar, we will look at how creating successful programming and collection development. We will also discuss how to make the library a space where there feel welcome through space design and feeling a sense of ownership.
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Whether you are an academic librarian, school librarian, or public librarian, it is likely that you encounter individuals who are in the process of learning English. Despite the desire to help, many librarians are uncertain how to effectively communicate with these individuals. In this session you will learn how to adapt your speech to be comprehensible, check for comprehension, and make adjustments if you are not being understood. In addition, this session will cover how to effectively use translation tools, work with a translator, and adapt reading resources for accessibility to English learners.
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This webinar will cover basic book structure, damage assessment, cost-effective decision-making regarding repairs, appropriate supplies and techniques for basic repair of bound volumes, periodicals and pamphlets.
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November 4 - 29 $175 US
There are families with young children in your community who never come to the library, and might not ever come, unless you meet them where they are. This class will provide a framework to help you build partnerships with family organizations in your community that can help you reach unserved families. Research has shown that children who do not attend any formal setting prior to kindergarten are less likely to become successful learners and readers. Conversely, early care and education centers that serve children prior to kindergarten have an important role in helping children they serve develop early literacy and learning skills that will prepare them for the transition to kindergarten. The library is in a unique position to reach unserved families through community outreach programs and early care and education providers through early literacy training. Class content will focus on strategies for planning inclusive outreach family storytime programs, offering early literacy trainings for parents and early care and education, and creating community partnerships with family service organizations in your community.
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Professional keynote and customer service speaker and New York Times bestselling author, Shep Hyken discusses how to think clearly in tough customer service situations.
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November 12 | 12:00pm - 1:00pm (MT)
Creativity comes in many forms: art projects, handy fixes, or gardening! Whether you’re looking for a new challenge or are totally new to the crafting and gardening world, we have an amazing webinar designed for all skill levels! Join us November 12 when we talk with representatives from Search Press and Storey Publishing about upcoming craft and gardening books perfect to get you through those cold winter months! Moderated by Booklist’s Associate Editor, Adult Books, Annie Bostrom.
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November 7 | 12:00pm -1:00pm (MT)
Looking to bring STEAM learning to your youngest students in a big way? Join this edWebinar for a learning experience with LEGO® Education to explore how you can incorporate creativity, inquiry, and collaboration in early childhood instruction to build important foundations for student learning. Educators will walk away feeling confident in the value of STEAM learning for young students and have ideas of how to build skills in this area through quick activities and engaging projects that explore early coding concepts such as sequencing, looping, and conditional coding, while developing problem solving skills, critical thinking, collaboration, and social and emotional skills.
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November 13 | 12:00pm - 1:00pm (MT)
Working with children who exhibit challenging behavior is no easy task! While there are hundreds of popular strategies and methods that promise to help reduce challenging behaviors, very few are as simple as the four common-sense steps our presenter, Rachel Wagner, will present in this powerful webinar Join us to learn new skills to help young children (ages 3-8) learn about their feelings, gain self-control and reduce challenging behavior. Rachel will walk you through the four steps of FLIP IT, which is embodied in the mnemonic: F- Feelings, L-Limits, I-Inquiries, P-Prompts. You will learn the research behind these simple, kind, strength-based, and effective steps and the actions you can take immediately after the session to begin transforming challenging behavior.
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Programming Librarian November 13 | 12:00pm - 1:00pm (MT) Join us for a webinar with Charlotte Mecklenburg (N.C.) Library, Gail Borden Public Library District (Elgin, Ill.), and Let’s Move in Libraries! to learn how libraries of all sizes can incorporate walking into programs for all ages. This session will focus on how these libraries developed their StoryWalk® and Walking Book Club programs, including lessons learned, with a brief overview of other walking programs ideas, like local history walks. |
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Drag Queen Story Hour (DQSH) is just what it sounds like, drag queens reading to children. DQSH captures the imagination and play of the gender fluidity of childhood and gives kids glamorous, positive, and unabashedly queer role models. This event is geared toward promoting inclusivity and diversity by allowing children to engage with individuals who dress or may express themselves outside expected gender norms in a safe space. Libraries are centers for diversity, but still people in many communities may feel threatened by this event. This session will discuss how some libraries overcame those obstacles, how the storytimes were attended, and how to host your own DQSH.
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Nonfiction in motion : connecting preschoolers with nonfiction books through movement by Julie Dietzel-GlairLibrarians who are short on time but don't want to shortchange their storytime patrons will appreciate this collection of engaging nonfiction materials and accompanying activities. Two hundred selections are organized by five major themes: animals, concepts, construction and things that go, science, and the world around us.
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Math Games for Kids : 25+ Fun, Hands-On Activities for Learning With Shapes, Puzzles, and Games by Rebecca RapoportLittle Learning Labs: Math Games for Kids shares 25+ hands-on activities that make learning about math fun by drawing and building shapes, solving puzzles, and playing games. The topics covered include geometry, topology, graph theory, fractals, and more, all presented in an engaging, new way for kids to learn--and enjoy--math.
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Easy Paper Projects : 60 Crafts You Can Wear, Gift, Use and Admire by Maggy WoodleyReady, set, craft! When boredom strikes your household fight back with one of the most bountiful supplies on hand-paper. Whether you have printer or construction paper, cardstock or crepe, there are so many ways to make your kid's day more fun without breaking the bank. Easy Paper Projects has 60 ways to help your little ones create, decorate and celebrate from lanterns and holiday garlands to wearable brooches and headbands.
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November 27 | 9:00am - 10:00am (MT)
New special monthly episodes of NCompass Live! Join the NLC’s Technology Innovation Librarian, Amanda Sweet, as she guides us through the world of library-related Pretty Sweet Tech.
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There are a few simple "rules" to littleBits that provide the foundation for your learning experiences.
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November 12 | 11:00am - 11:45am (MT)
During this free 45 minute live nonprofit webinar with A.J. Steinberg you are going to learn how to create a volunteer experience that makes your event volunteers love your organization so they come back and help year-after-year and make your life easier.
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November 13 | 12:00pm - 1:00pm (MT)
A good position description can make the recruitment and placement of volunteers so much easier, but this foundation component of a program is often overlooked or put into a folder and never used.
This webinar will start with the basics of what should be included in a position description and will help you create or update position descriptions for all of your volunteer opportunities. Once those position descriptions are created – use them! Learn how accurate and up-to-date position descriptions can help you recruit and train volunteers, and how they can help with retention and the development of leadership positions within your volunteer engagement program. |
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November 18 | 12:30pm - 1:30pm (MT)
Attendees of this webinar will learn techniques on managing a volunteer program with limited time. This includes delegating volunteer management tasks to colleagues and other volunteers, taking advantage of resources to develop your library’s volunteer program, advocating for your volunteers, and setting them up for success at your library.
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November 12 | 12:00pm - 1:00pm (MT) $35 US
Critical components of nonprofit board governance are determining strategic direction and providing oversight. While strategic planning falls squarely within these responsibilities, it is often dreaded and misunderstood by nonprofit boards. With the right process, it can actually increase board engagement and even be (dare we say) fun. Your strategic plan is the roadmap for programmatic and financial sustainability. Don’t take shortcuts that can sabotage your efforts. Go beyond a basic work plan or one-day, self-led retreat and learn the most effective processes and practices for strategic planning success.
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November 19 | 12:30pm - 1:30pm (MT)
What should be a season of love and joy often turns instead to tiring weeks of overspending, overindulging, disappointment and STRESS! Join facilitator Jane Bozarth for a look at common causes of holiday stress and ways to combat them. Leave this fun, interactive session with an action plan for taking back the spirit of the season!
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Collaborative library design : from planning to impact by Peter GisolfiExceptional library design is the result of effective collaboration. A successful design comes about through a productive exchange of ideas among the stakeholders and the architect. These participants define objectives, evaluate alternatives, and make the choices that can lead to a successful library.
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Disclaimer: The links provided in this newsletter are intended to inform subscribers about information and learning opportunities that may be of interest. Inclusion in this newsletter does not constitute a recommendation by Marigold Library System or its staff members. |
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