Leadership and influence – building capacity for change
Ken Haycock
- must promote self and library
- everyone is a leader
- getting people to give support to a common goal
- learn to articulate strengths
- do “strengths finder” exercises
- first part of leadership is self awareness
- apply what we know – evidence based librarianship
- libraries have not key success factors
- power of influence
- libraries
- referent power
- expertise power – over rated – not high power
- trust is critical
- reputation
- self confidence is key
- listening
- mentoring is a powerful tool
- mentoring is more important for women
- trust
- character
- competence
- confidence
- credible
- congruence
- yes – 50scientific ways to be successful
- social proof – what others are doing
- like and respect gets money
- find out values and beliefs of those with budget control
- ask – what do you want to accomplish and how can I help you to do it
- SOPPADA – a method to organize a one page report that gets read
- ROTI – return on time invested
- developing partnerships with knowledge
- key influences
- building influence
- using evidence
- connecting agendas
- assessing time
- assessing costs
- leveraging resources
- measuring results
Chemistry Division Corporate Libraries Roundtable
general discussion on challenges facing corporate librarians
Taxonomy
Sponsored by Solo Librarians Division and Taxonomy Division
http://www.accidental-taxonomist.com
taxonomy – index – thesaurus
- variety of terms
- variety of usages
- variety of perspectives
- variety of software, systems
