Who Manages, Who Leads: Part Two

Who Manages, Who Leads Part Two: Mentor, Progress, Succeed, is the second of a two-part series of four-week interactive programs, to introduce and continue educating existing managers and leaders to advanced theory and practice. Managers see mission. Leaders see vision. To every leader you will have a manager and to every manager a leader. Issues in managing other staff, resources, and services, as well as leadership roles and expectations are daunting tasks. Yes, some leaders are born, but others can be trained. 

This course benefits those who participated in the first of this series, those who have a great resume, and those with successful interview who are hired. This course discusses advanced succession, mentorship, and promotion in hiring and selection. Managerial and leadership opportunities in between this spectrum range from those promoted into manager leader positions and those hired as manager leader positions.

Learning Objectives:

  • Explore and discuss theories of management and leadership. 
  • Develop cognizant theories on the differences between leadership and management.
  • Gain insights into navigating transitions to different roles and how to simultaneously serve in multiple capacities.
  • Tie in practical issues that present to managers and leaders, such as hiring, firing and suggesting corrections to existing behaviors among staff. 
  • Finalize an individual and implementable career plan.

The instructor, Debra Lucas-Alfierwas the Head of Reference, Public Services, Interlibrary Loan, and Instruction at D’Youville University in Buffalo, NY from 2002-2022, leaving with distinction at retirement.  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.  

 

 

 

 

She was appointed as the Faculty Senate Parliamentarian (2018-2022).  She was awarded a Sabbatical and Faculty Research Grant in 2014, a Fellowship Award in 2015-2016, and was then promoted to full-librarian in 2016. She has been an online instructor and consulting in Library Studies since 2012.  

She is proud to discuss her days in the Western New York Library Resources Council Leadership Institute where she graduated in 2006. In 2008, she returned as the Graduation Keynote Speaker of the same Leadership Institute.