Building Leadership and Equity with Staff Mentorship

Saturday, June 25, 2022

11:00am – 12:00pm

Location: Washington Convention Center, 149A-B

Want to improve staff morale, supplement your training program, smooth your onboarding process, and create a stronger and more diverse workforce? Staff mentorship programs can do all these things, and more. Learn how three public library jurisdictions have designed successful, impactful staff mentorship programs that use different models, from traditional one-on-one mentoring to mentoring circles, to achieve individual and organizational goals. Learn about tools and gain insight that will enable you to initiate or improve your own staff mentorship program. Panelists will describe how their mentorship programs build staff capacity, competence and connection, empower professional growth, instill a culture of learning, and increase and improve equity, inclusion, and diversity within their library systems.

Learning Objectives:

Compare several different mentorship models to determine which would work best for their organization.
Describe several key ways that staff mentorship programs enable employees and organizations to meet their professional goals, including improving staff morale and increasing diversity at all levels.
Initiate a staff mentorship pilot program in their own organization, using best practices and tools provided during the workshop.

Main Contact(s)

Eva Mitnick

Division Director
Los Angeles Public Library

Moderator(s)

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Laurie Reese

Children's Librarian III
Los Angeles Public Library

Speaker(s)

Tiffany Davis

Director of Customer Experience
Saint Louis Public Library
Cathy Schultis

Branch Manager
Cuyahoga County Public Library
Jennifer A. Noble

Branch Manager
Los Angeles Public Library