Developing Library Leaders - A How-to-do-it Manual for Coaching, Team Building, and Mentoring Library Staff (Paperback)

How can you successfully lead your library through the changes taking place in today's transitional information environment? What skills must you develop or hone in order to build a confident, comfortable, and capable staff in your institution? In their highly practical new ""How-To-Do-It Manual"", authors Robert D. Stuart, the former Dean Emeritus of Simmons College's Graduate School of Library and Information Science and Maureen Sullivan, a leadership expert with over thirty years experience delivering consulting and training services to libraries and other information services, will help you identify the essential concepts and goals behind great leadership, and effectively implement each one into your library's organizational structure. ""Developing Library Leaders"" covers key strategies and processes for coaching, team building, and mentoring library staff. Following a foreword from James G. Neal, the authors clearly define the major roles and responsibilities of a library leader and offer valuable techniques for persuading and influencing others, building and leading teams and groups, and managing projects. There is step-by-step guidance for developing crucial coaching and mentoring skills, as well as tips for succession planning and facilitating long-term development. Throughout the book, Stueart and Sullivan provide ample models, outlines, examples, and charts for further guidance and to reinforce the practical use of key strategies. The generations-old adage that 'leaders are born not bred' is a myth; it is now commonly accepted that leadership is a skill that can be developed. Stueart and Sullivan show current and future library directors and managers how to develop their institutions' most valuable asset - their staff - and better prepare them to lead.

General

Imprint:	Neal-Schuman Publishers Inc
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	A How-to-do-it Manual for Coaching, Team Building, and Mentoring Library Staff
Release date:	2010
First published:	2010
Authors:	Robert D. Stueart • Maureen Sullivan
Dimensions:	279 x 216 x 8mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	250
ISBN-13:	978-1-55570-725-5
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Library & information sciences > Library & information services Books > Business & Economics > Business & management > Management & management techniques > General
LSN:	1-55570-725-4
Barcode:	9781555707255

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