Who Manages, Who Leads Part One
Who Manages, Who Leads: Part One: Developing your Career Plan
How many successful leaders and managers are “born” great leaders? A few, perhaps, but the majority become great managers with a combination of good training, strong mentorship, and a genuine commitment to lifelong learning.
When you become a manager, it is hard to move forward in your new role when you don't know what to expect. This course offers practical working knowledge to help you confidently develop the skills needed in your new position. This training also reaches beyond management and begins to develop the skills you need to become a strong leader.
This is a four-week self-paced, yet interactive program, requiring approximately 15 hours of dedicated study time to complete the coursework.
This course discusses managerial and leadership opportunities with experienced managers and frontline library staff who want to be in and grow in a managerial or leadership position. Each class participant will benefit from the course, discussing key concepts and best practices, interactive activities, readings, and including with a final project that to create a personalized career growth plan.
This course benefits front-line staff that excel in their positions and who strive for, or are promoted to, managerial positions. This course discusses managerial and leadership opportunities in between this spectrum, those promoted and those hired directly for such positions.
By the end of this course the participant will be able to:
- Coordinate and highlight individual management experiences.
- Learn how to recognize and capitalize on managerial experiences and or opportunities.
- Develop insight on how to move from a management to a leadership role.
- Gain insights into how to better navigate career transitions and use practices of influence to obtain to desired outcomes from different team members.
- Practice handling standard managerial responsibilities such as hiring, firing, and providing helpful perspective and feedback regarding staff dynamics and concerns.
Debra Lucas-Alfieri, Professor Emeritus, was the Head of Reference, Interlibrary Loan, Public Services, Information Analysis, and Instruction, for over 20 years at D'Youville University in Buffalo, N.Y. Debra has been teaching online library science classes, seminars, and webinars for over a decade, working with national and international institutions and organizations. Through her research and publications, Debra’s teachings and philosophies are highly impactful, regarded, studied, and cited across the globe.
She is the author of Marketing the 21st Century Library: The Time is Now, published by Chandos, an imprint of Elsevier. She has also published academic journal articles in Collaborative Librarianship, the Journal of Interlibrary Loan, Document Delivery & Electronic Reserve, and the Journal of Library and Information Science. She has co-authored and published articles in the nursing and pharmaceutical field. Her book chapters appear in Middle Management in Academic and Public Libraries, and the 21st Century Handbook of Anthropology. Additionally, she served as an editor for the Journal of Library Innovation. Dozens of encyclopedia articles appear in the Encyclopedia of Power, the Encyclopedia of Time, the Encyclopedia of Anthropology, and the 20th Century Encyclopedia of Pop Culture.
Before leaving D'Youville University, she was appointed Faculty Senate Parliamentarian and served from 2018 until she retired in 2022. During her tenure at the university, she was awarded a Sabbatical and Faculty Research Grant in 2014, a Faculty Fellowship Award in 2015-2016, and a promotion to Full-Librarian Academic Rank in 2016. She graduated from the WNYLRC Leadership Institute in 2007. Her retirement created the synergy to collaborate with countless librarians who drive our profession and institution of libraries successfully and strategically into the future.