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Session Format: This will be an interactive presentation incorporating audience response to hypothetical situations, break-out sessions, and group discussions.
Objective: In this session, you will learn tools to survive and keep your sanity in an ever-changing environment. You will discover your power in an organization, possible ways to deal with the problems you see, and how to give recommendations to your boss. You will get clear about where you have and do not have control in your library.
Methods: Instructional methods will include presentation of concepts with intermittent opportunities for discussion with the instructor and one another. Participants will be asked to consider hypothetical conditions and apply new knowledge and skills to these situations with discussion in pairs or small groups. There will be opportunity for large group interactions and discussions. A bibliography listing all sources will be provided to participants for follow up reading.
Participant Engagement: Participants will be actively involved in the session through large group interactions over chat along with breakout rooms that may include paired or small group discussions. Hypothetical situations will be presented to allow participants to apply new knowledge immediately and challenge long-held beliefs and perspectives.
Learning Objectives:
By the end of the session, participants will be able to explain systems theory according to Barry Oshry and describe how this translates to typical organizational dynamics.
By the end of the session, participants will be able to describe how they personally contribute to organizational dynamics and how they can actively work to change those dynamics.
By the end of the session, participants will be able to define important concepts of transparency and feedback in order to reconsider how this terminology is used in day-to-day work.
By the end of the session, participants will be able to describe their power in an organization, bring their recommendations to a supervisor, and improve their organization’s dynamics and culture.