Program Handouts & Information -- Continuing Education -- South Central Library System

Time Flies...But Where?

Resource List

Recording

Jean's Slides (PDF format)

Blog posts, articles, and websites:

Setting Smart Goals: a blog post describing the SMART Goal setting acronym

Online Goal Tracking Tools: a sampling of some online tools to help you work towards a goal

Time Management for Creative People, an ebook by Mark McGuinness

43 Folders, a blog by Merlin Mann. He has a great series on the Getting Things Done process

Using GTD to Get Things Doen at Your Library by Robin Hastings in Computers in Libraries, October 2011, page 23-26. Not in EBSCOhost yet.

The Four Habits of Highly Effective Librarians by Todd Gilman in The Chronicle of Higher Education, May 23, 2007

The Benefits of No by Esther Derby, CIO from www.cio.com on July 26, 2007

8 Easy Organizational Tips to Increase Your Productivity at Work by Sherrie Bourg Carter on High Octane Women (a great blog to follow)

Professional Development Tool: The First Hour by Michele M. Martin on The Bamboo Project blog

Nicholas Carr on Internet and the Brain from To The Best of Our Knowledge, 9/4/11

Time Management for Creative People, an ebook by Mark McGuinness

Tools

Evernote, Remember Everything is their tag line

Google Reader Simplifies your blog reading experience

Dropbox Online storage or your documents - access them anywhere, anytime

Remember The Milk To-do list available online, in your Gmail, on your phone, and more

Getting Things Done The website for productivity guru David Allen

Pomodoro Technique

Lifehacker A popular blog with the tag line: Tips, tricks, and downloads for getting things done.

Unclutterer Another popular blog with tips and information to declutter your life

Franklin Covey System Another pouplar time management system

 

Interested in presenting this program yourself? This is part of ALA's Train the Trainer series and can be purchased from the ALA Store.

Time Flies... But Where

 

 

Learning Day: Don't Eat the Menu

SCLS Learning Day 2011 featured a presentation by Patricia Clason, Center for Creative Learning. Patricia gave us permission to record that program. The DVD is now available for SCLS member libraries to request.

Don't Eat the Menu: A New Perspective on Communication with Patricia Clason.

"To think that communication is words is like going into a restaurant and eating the menu." - John Grinder, founder NeuroLinguistic Programming

Communication is so much more than the words which we often take at their face value and our personal definition and history. We don't really listen beyond the words to the meaning and intent of the communication. Most business problems are related to poor communication and lack of understanding of communication styles. People think because we're talking English, we speak the same language - and that's just not how it is!

From this workshop you will gain clarity on your communication style, understanding of others' styles, skills for communicating in others’ styles and getting the results that you want.

 

What Should I Say?

Originally presented Wednesday, November 9 at 1 p.m. with Jamie Matczak presenting. Jamie is the continuing education, youth and public information coordinator for the Nicolet Federated Library System. She is also an adjunct instructor for Lakeland College in "Business and Professional Rhetoric," a course required of all accounting, business and marketing majors.

Whether you are sending out a staff memo or emailing your grandmother, solid, written communication is key to getting your message across. We are writing, tweeting, instant messaging and texting more than ever. Join in for a fun, interactive webinar where you will learn tips and tricks to improve your written communication!

In this webinar, we will discuss:

- Why you should use short, familiar words
- Why you should avoid acronyms, sexist language, negative words and "rubber stamps"
- How to write "stronger"
- How to convey "bad news" (there is a right way to do this!)
- Good email and text messaging etiquette

Jamie's Slides

Recording