[Libs-Or] Lead From Any Position - an OLA preconference opportunity

[Candice Watkins]

Lead From Any Position


Are you looking to develop your leadership skills to benefit your library?
Your community?  Your professional association? Your career?  The Oregon
Library Association is offering a full day leadership training at the 2015
OLA Conference in Eugene -- Leading From Any Position: Creating Learning
Libraries in Five Easy Lessons -- that you can register for now. This
preconference is being planned by the OLA Leadership Task Force. OLA is
committed to supporting the building of leadership skills in its members.
The preconference is open to all library workers.

Becky Schreiber and John Shannon, facilitators of the well regarded PNLA
Leads! Leadership Institute, will guide participants in exploring
leadership from all positions in libraries. Their results have been
recognized by library staff who embrace the concepts and implement the
disciplines of Peter Senge’s Learning Organizations. This preconference
will examine innovative ideas and provide support for participants’ efforts
to lead in our librarie and beyond.

What can a leadership training do for you? Read this testimony and more
<https://ola.memberclicks.net/leadership-testimonials?servId=2863> on OLA’s
Leadership Taskforce webpages.


[image: testimony.jpg]Angela Weyrens, Multnomah County Library

“Although it has been close to 8 years since I participated in the PNLA
Leadership Institute, I carry the talisman of the self-awareness and
confidence I started to build there with me every day. Becky Schreiber and
John Shannon were amazing guides on the road to successful leadership. They
didn't care about my official position or level of education- only that I
had the potential to help shape the future of libraries and I was willing
to participate in some deep and painful reflection to do so. They helped to
direct my passion for our institution down a leadership path. I am the
leader I am in part because they helped me see who and what I could be.”

In OLA’s experiential preconference, we will:

   -

   Explore the concepts of Leading from Any Position; to take initiative
   and garner influence regardless of organizational authority
   -

   Practice practical applications of Peter Senge’s five learning
   disciplines
   -

   Apply the disciplines to each participant’s unique situation
   -

   Plan strategies for using the concepts to create a collaborative culture
   -

   Experience the fun of creating together, treating ambiguity as an
   opportunity for group innovation


For more information about the preconference, including the agenda, visit OLA’s
Leadership Taskforce webpage <http://www.olaweb.org/leadership-taskforce>.
Register for the preconference through the OLA Conference 2015 website
<https://ola.memberclicks.net/ola-conference-2015---registration>.


-- 

Candice Watkins

Oregon Library Association President, 2014-2015

Library Director

Clatsop Community College

(503) 338-2460
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://omls.oregon.gov/pipermail/libs-or/attachments/20150106/41ec0f60/attachment.html>