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Essential Facilitation: Practical Tools for Guiding Groups is on Monday, June 25th from 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 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 LCIP 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 supposes 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.
The second program is Consultants Giving Back on Sunday, June 24, from 12:00 noon – 5:00 p.m.
ASCLA and the Public Library Association (PLA) are teaming up to offer “Consultants Give Back” at the 2012 ALA Annual Conference in Anaheim. This is an opportunity for libraries to receive free 30-minute consultation sessions from professional library consultants. Consultants interested in offering their services as a part of this event can now register online.
This event features consultants with expertise in a wide variety of topics like RFID, marketing and communications, executive searches, buildings and facilities, strategic planning and library trends, among many others. Participating consultants will be available during the “Consultants Give Back” office hours, 1:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. in Room 203B of the Anaheim Convention Center on Sunday, June 24 or at other times throughout the conference. Registration for consultants wishing to offer services as a part of this exciting event can be accessed online.
For those seeking consulting services, a list of participating consultants and their availability can be found on the ASCLA website. Those interested in booking a session should contact the consultant of their choice no later than Monday, June 20.
Questions about the consultation sessions should be directed to Nancy Bolt at nancybolt@earthlink.net or Paula Singer pmsinger@singergrp.com. Consultants interested in engaging and networking with library consulting peers for the benefit of all independent library professionals should join ASCLA’s Library Consultants Interest Group.