Level: Beginning
Prerequisite: None
Cost: $210 (nonmember, $315)
Attendance Maximum: None

Instructor(s): Natalie Reed, AHIP, Director of Library Services, Midwestern University, Downers Grove, IL and Glendale, AZ

Offered: Saturday, May 17, 8:00 a.m.–noon

This class will help all participants identify leadership skills they want to develop and then identify nonsupervisory leadership opportunities that currently exist for them in their own circles of influence. People without supervisory experience often wonder how to get leadership experience to qualify for future management roles and thus enhance their career development opportunities. In response to the growing need to develop library leaders to replace retiring baby boomers, a task force of the Leadership and Management Section of MLA has identified experience and qualification expectations that current upper library managers hold. These are somewhat different from beliefs about skills that applicants hold. Leadership opportunities exist all around, in and out of professional responsibilities and places of work. Participants will use in-class discussion and worksheets to create a personal action plan and timeline to obtain the leadership experience that they desire.