New Webinar - "What I Learned from My Best Bosses: Lessons from Great Library Managers"

What I Learned from My Best Bosses:
Lessons from Great Library Managers
A Library 2.0 AI Webinar with Sonya Schryer Norris

OVERVIEW: 

No matter what part of the library you’re working in, you’re going to have supervisors. Learning how to work toward the mutual benefit of you and your employer can make the difference between feeling frustrated or ineffective to standing out as an exceptional worker. The capacities that make you stand out are solely within your control. You can consciously harness them to grow personally and professionally no matter where you work within the library. This webinar walks you through some of the consistent pain points of being an employee and how to use those pain points to grow and to help your library grow:

• Hearing “No” strategically.
• When it’s all about you, tell the truth.
• Accepting clarity as kindness.
• Accepting your boss as a whole person.
• What does your boss want? Give it to them.
• How to talk to your boss about your ideas with proven methods from the Harvard Business School.
• When to know that it’s time to say No to your boss.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

• Learn how to implement a method of career development where you are consciously working toward the mutual benefit of you and your employer.
• Learn to effectively communicate your ideas to your boss with proven methods from the Harvard Business School.
• Identify behaviors and approaches you can adopt that will make it easier for you to work with your supervisors.

The recording and presentation slides will be available to all who register.

DATE: Wednesday, June 25th, 2025, 12:00 - 1:00 pm US - Eastern Time

COST:

• $99/person - includes live attendance and any-time access to the recording and the presentation slides and receiving a participation certificate.
• To arrange group discounts (see below), to submit a purchase order, or for any registration difficulties or questions, email admin@library20.com.

TO REGISTER: 

Click HERE to register and pay. You can pay by credit card. You will receive an email within a day with information on how to attend the webinar live and how you can access the permanent webinar recording. If you are paying for someone else to attend, you'll be prompted to send an email to admin@library20.com with the name and email address of the actual attendee.

 

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SPECIAL GROUP RATES (email admin@library20.com to arrange):

• Multiple individual log-ins and access from the same organization paid together: $139 each for 3+ registrations. Unlimited and non-expiring access for those log-ins.
• Institutional access for viewing with individual login capability: $699 (hosted either at Library 2.0 or in Niche Academy). Unlimited and non-expiring access for those log-ins.
• The ability to show the webinar (live or recorded) to a group located in the same physical location or in the same virtual meeting one time: $399.

ALL-ACCESS PASSES: This webinar is not a part of the Safe Library All-Access program.

SONYA SCHRYER NORRIS

Sonya Schryer Norris, MLIS, has worked in libraries for 25+ years including 16 years in Library Development for the Library of Michigan.

In 2020, she founded Plum Librarian LLC, a consulting firm and instructional design production house, to help libraries and library workers get to What’s Next for them. She has provided training through twelve state libraries and her 35+ online courses have been adopted in all 50 states and internationally.

For 22 years, her articles have been appearing in Library Journal, The Other Journal: An Intersection of Theology and Culture, and multiple times in both Computers in Libraries, and for Gale/Cengage. Topics include User Experience and Change Management.

She engages regularly with audiences and appearances include the Public Library Association, CORE, Computers in Libraries, the Southeast Collaborative Conference, RAILS, California Libraries Learn, Niche Academy, PCI Webinars, and multiple state libraries.

Sonya is a proud third-generation Michigan library worker.

OTHER UPCOMING EVENTS:

June 5, 2025

THE CONFERENCE IS BEING POSTPONED UNTIL AUGUST.
MORE INFORMATION WILL BE POSTED HERE WHEN THE DATE IS SOLIDIFIED.

Next Class June 18, 2025

June 20, 2025