Leadership in Youth Services: Part 2 - Leadership in Action

Working with children in a library setting provides vast opportunities to create and hone leadership skills - if you know where to find them! By cultivating these skills in yourself and others, you will elevate your profession and community. This webinar will provide you with the tools you need to recognize these skills within yourself and within your role in the children's department. This webinar will provide real life examples of what leadership actually looks like in the everyday life of children's librarianship. Leadership can take many different forms, including taking a risk on a program to fulfill a need of the community; embracing big picture thinking that can be broken into manageable parts; or knowing how to work together as a team to achieve goals. 

This is one of a three-part Leadership in Youth Services webinar series brought to you by the ALSC Managing Children’s Services Committee. 

Learning Objectives
Participants will

• recognize their strengths and recognize their limitations and how to recognize this in others.
• define their mission, both personally and as part of an institution. 
• build programming and services that fill a need, take a risk, and cultivate passion. 
• learn big picture thinking and how to break things into workable actions.
• learn to work as a team.