ASCLA Library Consultants Interest Group colleagues - I hope you will join your ASCLA and ALA colleagues at some of these events during the upcoming June 2012 ALA Conference in Anaheim:
*** ASCLA/COSLA Networking Party and Awards Reception, Saturday, June 23, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.
A great opportunity to meet new friends and reconnect with old ones! Build your consulting network at this free reception attended by many of the movers and shakers in the library world.
*** ASCLA/PLA Program: Consultants Give Back, Sunday, June 24, 1:30 to 5:30 p.m., Room 203 B Anaheim CC
CGB is happening throughout conference, but this Sunday time slot is the open "office hour" time set aside for consultants who want a designated time and place to meet. Are you a consultant interested in providing services as a part of this event? Please contact Nancy Bolt (nancybolt@earthlink.net) asap to see if space is still available.
*** ASCLA Program: Essential Facilitation: Practical Tools for Guiding Groups, Monday, June 25, 10:30 a.m.- 12 noon
The featured speaker, Patty McManus from Interaction Associates, will speak on "Decision Making Without Pain: Tips and Tools for Leading Groups to Success." She writes: “Everyone knows the agony of endless efforts to reach decisions in groups. Join LCIG and Interaction Associates to learn some practical tools for leaders and consultants. In this session, we’ll cover: Setting up decision making for success; Choosing a decision-making process that fits the situation; Structuring group discussions that make progress; Finally, hear how a state library and a library consultant have implemented this material for greater effectiveness in their groups.
Interaction Associates supports global leadership development through training, consulting, and facilitation. As a Senior Consultant to Interaction Associates, Patty McManus works to develop leaders who are equipped to embrace both the responsibilities and the potential of their roles. She works at the levels of values, skills, and commitment to support leaders’ organizational and personal success. Ms. McManus has worked in the fields of organization development and leadership development for twenty years. Before joining Interaction Associates, she was an internal organization development consultant at Apple Inc., Kaiser Permanente, and the University of California. Her coaching enabled successful management transitions and assimilation of new leaders. Accomplished in team building, she helped develop management, technical, cross-functional, globally dispersed teams.
Sharing the podium with Ms. McManus will be Ann Joslin, Director of the Idaho Commission for Libraries and Nancy Bolt, President of Nancy Bolt & Associates. Both Ms. Joslin and Ms. Bolt have had extensive Interaction Associates training and use it in their daily work.