Practical Tips for Developing Your Staff

ISBN-13: 9781783300181 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 224 str.

Gill Young;Tracey Pratchett

Opis

This book offers innovative tips and tried-and-tested best practice to enable library and knowledge workers to take control of professional development regardless of the budget and time available to them. Continuous professional development is a key component of a successful and satisfying career. Part of the Practical Tips for Library and Information Professionals series, this book offer a wide range of ideas and methods for all library and information professionals to manage the development of those who work for and with them. You will find flexible tips and implementation advice on topics including: * enabling others to plan, reflect on and evaluate their personal development * appraisals and goal setting: linking personal objectives to organizational objectives * performance management * sourcing funding to attend and run events * planning formal development activities such as courses and conferences * accessing informal activities * using social media as a development tool * role of professional bodies and networks * mentoring, buddying and coaching * networking. Readership: All library and information professionals who have responsibility for managing, mentoring and training staff and individuals wishing to manage their own CPD.

Spis treści

Series Editor’s introduction

Introduction

SECTION 1: THEORIES

1. Understanding how People Behave, Learn and Develop

2. KOLB Learning Cycle and Styles

3. Honey and Mumford – Learning Styles

4 . VAK Learning Styles

5. MBTI® – Myers Briggs® Type Indicator

6. Jigsaw Discovery Tool©

7. The DiSC® Model

8. Benziger Thinking Styles Assessment (BTSA)

9. SDI – Strength Deployment Inventory®

10. Kirkpatrick’s four levels of evaluation model

SECTION 2: INFRASTRUCTURE

11. Why Develop Staff?

12. Workforce Planning

13. Job Descriptions

14. Person Specifications

15. Advertisements

16. Shortlisting

17. Interviews

18. Interviews – Presentations and Tests

19. Interviews – Feedback

20. Inductions

21. Managing Performance

22. Team Development Plans

23. Appraisals – Preparing

24. Appraisals – Conducting

25. Setting Objectives

26. One-to-ones

27. Feedback – General

28. Team Building

29. Team Meetings

30. Sharing Learning with the Team

31. Writing References

32. Exit Interviews

33. Effective Handover

SECTION 3: ACTIVITIES AND TOOLS

34. Action Learning Sets

35. Apprentices, Graduate Trainees and Placements

36. Awards

37. Buddying

38. CILIP Qualifications

39. CILIP Qualifications – Re-validation

40. Coaching

41. Collaborative Working

42. Communities of Practice – Internal

43. Communities of Practice – External

44. Conferences – Attending

45. Conferences – Organizing

46. Conferences – Posters

47. Conferences – Presenting

48. Conferences – Sharing the Learning (using blogs, Twitter, articles, presentations to others etc.)

49. Conferences – Volunteering

50. Conferences – Workshops

51. Conferences – Writing Proposals for Papers

52. CVs

53. Exchange of Experience Events, TeachMeets and Unconferences

54. Formal Qualifications

55. Funding for CPD

56. Group Conversations

57. Job Rotation

58. Learning Logs and Journals

59. Meetings – Attending

60. Meetings – Chairing

61. Meetings – Note Taking

62. Mentoring – External

63. Mentoring – Peer

64. Minutes of Madness

65. MOOCS

66. Networks

67. Networks – Setting up

68. Networks – Running

69. Personal Development Plans

70. Presentations – General Tips

71. Professional Membership

72. Projects

73. Project Management Tools

74. Reflection – Facilitating

75. Reflective Practice

76. Reflective Writing

77. Research Activities

78. Secondments

79. Shadowing

80. Social Media

81. SWOT Analysis

82. Time Management

83. Time Management Tools

84. Training Courses – Attending

85. Training Courses – Commissioning

86. Training Courses – Planning, Delivering and Evaluating

87. Twitter

88. Twitter Chats

89. VLEs

90. Visits

91. Volunteering

92. Webinars

93. Writing Blog Posts

94. Writing Business Cases

95. Writing Case Studies

96. Writing Emails

97. Writing Journal Articles

98. Writing Newsletter Articles

99. Writing Procedures

100. Writing Project Plans

101. Writing Reports

Index

O autorze

Tracey Pratchett, Gil Young