Oct. 12, 2010
12:00 – 1:00 p.m.
4F51-A Ellis Library
Have you got a favorite book on leadership or employee management? What’s the best piece of advice about supervision that you’ve ever heard? There are thousands of books and articles on this topic, but it’s hard to know where to start.
Sometimes the most practical advice can come from inside an organization, from people who have years of service and seen some ideas work, and some fail. Our Lunchtime Leadership Book Talk series* is designed to combine the two – knowledge from the literature with wisdom from experience. Not every bit of leadership advice works in every type of organization and this will be an opportunity to compare notes and discuss whether the concepts quoted in the books and articles could have application at our organization.
This will be an opportunity for MU Libraries employees to gather informally over lunch and share quotes from books or articles on the topic of leadership or management that seem especially pertinent for MU Libraries right now. This is open to all library employees as it seems sensible to hear from current and emerging leaders within the organization in terms of what they are reading on the topic.
The Lunchtime series will meet monthly through the current academic year (but probably not as a standing date/time format). Feel free to attend as your schedule allows. I’m requesting RSVP’s for this first session in order to have a sense of attendance prior to the session (AgnewL@missouri.edu).
Attendance is voluntary but compensable for non-exempt supervisors since the discussion applies to the workplace. As such, schedule adjustments may be needed to offset overtime considerations.
*The idea for the series comes from Marie Concannon. Thanks, Marie!
Leo