Working in a library can feel like a constant juggling act. We navigate competing demands and challenging situations on a daily basis in order to meet our mission and transform our communities. In this interactive session, discover how to handle these challenges proactively. Learn positive, practical tips, stress-reduction skills, and ideas for changing your personal work style. Learn strategies to help you face challenging situations that affect your whole organization and society-wide issues that impact the communities we serve. Feel better and be more effective at your work.

Presented by:

• Cheryl Heywood, Timberland Regional Library, WA
  
• Georgia Lomax, Pierce County Library System, WA
  
• Anna Shelton, OCLC Program Consultant

Note: 90 minute session

Access Recording

• View Webinar Recording (You will be prompted to log in to our free Course Catalog.)

Webinar Attachments

• View slides (pdf)
  
• View chat (xls)

Related Resources and Links

• Read written webinar recap
• On WebJunction, Personal Growth and Development, including numerous See Also resources.
• Books and Articles:
  
  • Take Action: Managing Workplace Stress (pdf) Anna Shelton, in WLA journal, Alki, November 2012, p. 18
    
  • Leadership By Example: The Ten Key Principles of All Great Leaders by Dr. Sanjiv Chopra with David Fisher
  • The Winner’s Brain: 8 Strategies Great Minds Use to Achieve Success by Jeff Brown and Mark Fenske
  • Crucial conversations by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Al Switzler and Ron McMillan (second edition)
    
  • Full Steam Ahead! Unleash the Power of Vision in Your Work and Your Life. By Kenneth H. Blanchard and Jesse Stoner. (2^nd edition, 2011).
  • Integrity: the Courage to Meet the Demands of Reality by Dr. Henry Cloud
  • Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen and davidco.com
    
  • Beyond the Wall of Resistance by Rick Maurer (revised edition, 2010)
  • Management Time: Who’s Got the Monkey? By William Oncken and Donald L. Wass. Harvard Business Review, November/December 1999
  • Outliers: the story of success by Malcolm Gladwell
• From Timberland Regional Library
  
  • Timberland Regional Library Standards of Performance (pdf)
  • Timberland Regional Library Budget Adjustments background 2009-2010 (doc)
• Other resources
  
  • Rick Maurer on organizational change
  • Innovation on purpose, blog post by Mike Thomas on October 27, 2013
  • Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Instrument (TKI)
• Shared in chat:
  • The Artist's Way, Julia Cameron
  • A codified set of the builder’s, crafter’s, maker’s rules, shared by Stephen Abram
  • Laura Vanderkam on  time management and life balance http://lauravanderkam.com/