This workshop provides an opportunity for the entire staff to be brought into the process of articulating organizational planning assumptions, values, and vision. Goal-setting provides individual staff an opportunity to focus on positive performance improvement, and yet performance goals and objectives can be very difficult to write. This workshop provides an easy process for performance planning through goals and gives participants a chance to develop goals, objectives, and measurements related to their own work. Committees, task forces and other groups are critically important in today's libraries. This workshop focuses on strategies for making groups as effective as possible.
True teams differ from other kinds of groups in significant ways.
This workshop is intended for specific teams that want to enhance their performance, for groups that want to become teams, or for organizations that simply want to explore team concepts. One of the common complaints about organizational life is that there are too many meetings and too much time wasted in them. This workshop combines principles of effective meeting management with the opportunity for staff to make concrete plans for improving the quality of their meetings. Group Facilitation Skills. Organizational leadership is shifting away from the traditional controlling management model toward facilitation.