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Registration for the workshop is full, but OLC is taking waitlists by phone at 614-410-8092

Managerial Leadership: Building Commitment Through Content

Workshop Dates: 10/6/2010 - 10/7/2010

Sponsor: OLC's Management and Administration Division

Registration opens at: 8:30 AM on 10/6/2010

Program begins at:9:00 AM
Program ends at:4:00 PM on 10/7/2010

Location: Avon Lake Public Library
32649 Electric Boulevard
Avon Lake, Ohio 44012


Agenda:PLEASE NOTE: REGISTER EARLY! This event was pre-sold and only has limited seats remaining. Registration will be on a first come, first serve basis.

This managerial leadership program is designed to develop and enhance the skills of library leaders. It will be an intensive, experiential program.

Participants in the program will engage in a variety of activities designed to enhance their self-awareness and abilities in the following areas of leadership competency:
  • embracing and being a catalyst for meaningful change
  • adopting current concepts about effective leadership
  • understanding leadership styles, preferences, values and strengths
  • clarifying personal vision
  • learning to see yourself as others see you
  • defining the link between mindset and leadership effectiveness
  • building commitment through coaching and communication skills
  • recognizing the organizational context of strategic thinking
Day 1. Managerial Leadership
Learning Objectives
  • understand the concept and practice of managerial leadership
  • recognize the similarities and differences between management and leadership
  • review and discuss a model of managerial decision styles
Day 2. Developing and Leading Groups and Teams
Learning Objectives
  • explore the dynamics of organizational change
  • know the key practices for coaching staff and building commitment to change
  • learn more about communication as a key tool for leadership


Speaker Information

Maureen Sullivan is an organization development consultant whose practice focuses on the delivery of consulting and training services to libraries and other information organizations. She has more than 25 years of experience as a consultant on organization development, strategic planning, leadership development, introducing and managing organizational change, organization and work redesign, establishment of staff development and learning programs for today's workplace, creating a work environment that supports diversity, revision of position classification and compensation systems and the identification and development of competencies. Her experience includes 12 years as the human resources administrator in the libraries at the University of Maryland (1977-1980) and at Yale University (1983-1991). She has a long history with the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and was instrumental in the design and delivery of several of ARL’s management training programs.

Ms. Sullivan is a past president (1998-1999) of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL). During her term as President, she helped establish the ACRL/Harvard Leadership Institute in partnership with the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She is now a member of the faculty for this annual program. She was president of the Library Administration and Management Association for the 1988-89 term. In 1999, she received the Elizabeth Futas Catalyst for Change Award from the American Library Association.

She received her B.A. degree, magna cum laude, from the University of Maryland in 1974 and her M.A. degree in Library Science from the University of Maryland in 1976.

Who Should Attend: Library administrators, managers and team leaders

What Is Included: All workshop sessions and handouts as provided by the instructor.

Morning coffee and lunch each day will be provided.

If you are an Ohio Certified Public Librarian, this event counts as 12 credit hours toward re-certification.

Accommodations: OLC can assist out-of-town participants with recommendations for overnight accommodations. Please request a list from badair@olc.org.

Member Cost: $300.00 for individual members or staff of OLC institutional member libraries.

Non-Member Cost:$600.00



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