Northeast Ohio Regional Library System
Event Description
Geographic Member/Other Cost:    $50
Full/CE Member Cost:             $25

Participants will get insight into these tough conversations:
  1. Dealing with challenging patrons – “I deserve special treatment!  You’re wrong!  Your library is lame!”
  2. Redirecting an employee’s intensity – “This is the rule, I’m going to follow it no matter what!”
  3. Correcting employee skills – “I already know this, bored now.”
  4. Helping employees adjust an emotional or personality trait to better get along with their peers – “Did you hear about so-and-so?  Well, I heard…”Coordinating with other professionals in your building – “What do you mean you need me to do something?”
Location
Online
Via Adobe Connect
Contact Person
Melissa Lattanzi
(phone: 330-655-0531)
Details
Library leaders must be excellent communicators, and new managers are no exception. While most conversations will not be challenging, every manager will experience tough conversations when trying to adjust others’ actions to meet a desired end goal.

Competency: Library Management
Sub-Category: Personnel Management, Community Relations


Presenter:  Jennifer Parsick
Jennifer has been a manager with the Osceola Library System for more than two years.  She has taught all levels of patrons, from retired senior citizens through Stetson University’s Lifelong Learning Program, to a masters’ track library science class at Florida State University.  She has been published in the CSLP Summer Reading manual two years in a row, and presented at the 2014 Florida Library Association Annual Conference
Event Documents/Images

E-Learning


The 5 Tough Conversations New Managers Will Have


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