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Reminder – SDC Presentation: 10 Tools to Bolster Group Efforts

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Join Leo Agnew to learn 10 proven methods for working with others to generate ideas, evaluate processes, and reach consensus on the next steps. Session 1 will review methods that can help get new ideas off the ground. Session 2 will cover techniques for assessing existing processes.

The material covered in the sessions can be applied to meetings, to managing projects, and to help groups with their approach for generating ideas and assessing processes. Course material is taken from the book The Library’s Continuous Improvement Fieldbook: 29 Ready-to-Use Tools, Sara Laughlin et al; ALA, 2003.

Release time is available per supervisor approval. RSVP’s are requested by not required. Please RSVP to Brad Winter at WinterBA@missouri.edu. Participants are not required to attend both sessions.

Session 1: Feb. 5, 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m., 4G41 Ellis

Session 2. Feb, 12, 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m., 4G41 Ellis

Library Issues Forum, Map to Success

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Map to Success: Using Logic Models to Plan for Successful Outcomes
Thursday, Jan. 17
9-10:30am
Ellis Library
Library Instruction Room 1 – 4G41 Ellis
Presenter: Barb Jones

Program evaluation can be a powerful tool to steer the direction of a department or system. Good program evaluation requires accurate assessment, translation of vision into manageable steps and assignments, consistent and timely reporting and appropriate definition of success. The logic model system will be presented as one way to organize institutional planning toward clearly defined goals and activities, with appropriate assignment of personnel, resources and expected outcomes.

RSVPs not required. Release time available with supervisor approval.

 

Staff Develpment Committee Presentation – 10 Tools to Bolster Group Efforts

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Join Leo Agnew to learn 10 proven methods for working with others to generate ideas, evaluate processes, and reach consensus on the next steps. Session 1 will review methods that can help get new ideas off the ground. Session 2 will cover techniques for assessing existing processes.

The material covered in the sessions can be applied to meetings, to managing projects, and to help groups with their approach for generating ideas and assessing processes. Course material is taken from the book The Library’s Continuous Improvement Fieldbook: 29 Ready-to-Use Tools, Sara Laughlin et al; ALA, 2003.

Release time is available per supervisor approval. RSVP’s are requested by not required. Please RSVP to Brad Winter at WinterBA@missouri.edu. Participants are not required to attend both sessions.

Session 1: Feb. 5, 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m., 4G41 Ellis

Session 2. Feb, 12, 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m., 4G41 Ellis