[MNASIS-L] SEPTEMBER 13, 2006 SLA WEBINAR - Project Management for Solo Librarians

[Janet Arth]

The Minnesota Chapter will host the September 13, 2006 SLA Click-U-Live 
Webinar:
   Project Management for Solo Librarians Part I - Mastering the Project Map:
    Solo Management and Leadership.

Date:  September 13, 2006

Time:  1:00 - 2:30 (plan to arrive a few minutes early, as the seminar 
starts promptly at 1PM)

Location:  Hammel Green & Abrahamson
            701 Washington Ave. N.
            Minneapolis, MN   55401

Your host:  Julie Weston

Directions & Parking: 
http://maps.yahoo.com/maps_result?csz=Minneapolis+MN+55401=1180

Cost:  $10 for SLA/ASIST/MALL/HSLM members.  $15 for non-members.  Please 
make your check payable to "Minnesota Chapter SLA" and bring it with you to 
the seminar.

HOW TO REGISTER:  Send the registration form shown below to Judy Galt, 
judy at galtinfo.com, or call Judy at 612-812-6428.  Space is limited, so 
register ASAP.

Registrations will be handled in the order received and a confirmation 
message will be sent.

NOTE:  If you register, you are obligated to pay for your seminar 
attendance, whether or not you show up on September 13.

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September 13, 2006 Virtual Seminar Registration Form:

Name:

Phone number:

SLA/SISIT/MALL/HSLM member?  yes no

Do you need a receipt?  yes no

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Thanks to Julie Weston for hosting the seminar.

Please call Judy at 612-812-6428 or send an e-mail to judy at galtinfo.com 
with any questions.


Seminar description:

Project Management for Solo Librarians
   Part I -  Mastering the Project Map: Solo Management and Leadership

13 September  2006
1:00-2:30 p.m. CT

Presented by 
<http://www.sla.org/content/learn/learnmore/distance/2006cul/091306cul/pwagnerbio.cfm>Pat 
Wagner, Pattern Research

The Course

These seminars are designed to complement one another. You may register for 
either Part Ior Part II to suit your interest and skill level. However, 
taking Part I will help you get more out of Part II.

The solo librarian must master multi-tasking without the luxury of staff 
members to whom to delegate tasks. Often he or she feels isolated within 
their institutions, without colleagues who understand their concerns. The 
responses to this kind of stress are predictable: the conscientious solo 
librarian tries to work faster and put in longer hours. The result is a 
temporary increase in productivity and long-term burnout. Instead, the key 
to solo project management is to become one's own manager and leader: 
pausing to plan, fostering peer relationships with other departments, 
building partnerships with customers and negotiating priorities.

This two-part seminar series addresses making hard choices, mastering the 
project map, creating a working strategic plan for special and ongoing 
projects, communicating expectations and negotiating the ratios among cost, 
time and quality with multiple customers. Participants will also learn to 
avoid the most common project management mistakes, including project creep, 
concrete thinking, perfectionism, pet projects, and conflict avoidance, as 
they apply good management practices to those everyday tasks that waste 
time and damage credibility.

Part I

In the first segment, we will investigate the project map and learn how to 
apply the skills of the manager (pausing, planning, communicating) and the 
leader (risking, anticipating, influencing) to improve productivity, not 
just the skills of the task-oriented professional (reacting, focusing, 
self-governing). Participants will learn how to use the map to refocus on 
workplace relationships outside of the library and keep the bigger picture 
in mind when responding to customer requests. The map will also help 
participants understand why they have to shift some of their time and 
resources away from "doing" their work to coordinating projects and 
building support.

Targeted Learners

This presentation is for those who work alone, who have multiple 
supervisors, or who are looking for ways to improve the productivity when 
staff is cut and budgets collapse. It is also useful for frontline 
supervisors who want to improve workplace performance. It is designed for 
people with at least two years' of workplace experience and would be 
considered an intermediate class.

Critical Learning Questions
    * What do we have to give up in order to stay relevant to our 
customers' changing needs?
    * What will keep us anchored to our goals on a busy day despite 
interruptions and conflicting demands?
    * Which better project management practices can we apply immediately, 
even when we don't have enough time, money or staff to what we think is right?