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Understanding Personalities in the Workplace
Wednesdays, July 2, 9, and 16th, 2:00 p.m. (CST)
Are you an employee? A manager? Do you have a spouse? Children? Friends? Acquaintances? Do you volunteer in an organization? Are you on committees? Do you ever deal with people in any context at all? Of course you do! This 3-part webinar series is an invaluable tool in understanding your own personality style, as well as understanding those with whom you interact.
You’ll be introduced to Tightrope walkers, Ringleaders, Attendants and Clowns, and find out how we are all so different… and yet so alike. Why do they do the things they do and why do you react the way you do? Why do you struggle to communicate effectively with some people? Why don’t they have the same goals you do? Why don’t they see things the way you do (after all, you’re right, right?!?) You’ll find out your own personality style as well as the strengths and weaknesses of each of the four basic styles. As you learn about yourself, you’ll undoubtedly experience an “aha!” moment regarding someone else (or several “someone elses”!) You will also learn how to stay on TRAC (Tightrope walkers, Ringleaders, Attendants and Clowns) with specific ways to deal with each style.
Presenter:
Linda Bruno has been developing and conducting training workshops since 1997.
Each session of this 3-part series is 60 minutes.
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Emotional Intelligence in Your Workplace
Wednesdays, July 23, 30, and August 6, 2:00 p.m. CST
Emotional Intelligence – maybe you’ve heard the term, but what in the world does it mean? The short answer is simply being intelligent about emotions – yours and others’. The longer – and much more interesting – answer will fascinate you.
In this 3-part series, we’ll discuss the idea of Emotional Intelligence and why interest in the field is increasing. We’ll delve into how our behavioral styles can affect our levels of emotional intelligence. We’ll also take a closer look at emotions:
what are emotions anyway, are we even aware of them when they happen, can we control them? Then we will “look in the mirror” and begin to explore the first two of the four elements of Emotional Intelligence. Finally, we will investigate the other two elements – by probing how our emotions affect how we interact with others, we’ll also discover the potential for improving our emotional intelligence, why it matters in the workplace, and why it might be challenging to do so.
Presenter:
Linda Bruno has been developing and conducting training workshops since 1997.
Each session of this 3-part series is 60 minutes.
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Portal, Platform, Public Option: An introduction and overview of the Digital Public Library of America
Wednesday, September 24, 2014, 2:00 p.m. CST
The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) brings together the riches of America’s libraries, archives, and museums, and makes them freely available to the world; interest in the DPLA tends to span across many different library types and includes membership from state and public libraries, as well as consortia from across the US. The content of the overview presentation explores how we view the DPLA: as a portal, a technical platform, and an advocate for the public good. Within that, we talk about our Hubs model, do a walk through of the site, talk about copyright and the value of opening up our resources to greater usage, and APIs. Participanst will gain a better understanding of the DPLA, better understand the value of openness, as well as learn how the Hubs model works and how they might participate in DPLA. There will be a Q&A for participants to have their questions answered about the DPLA.
Presenter:
Amy Rudersdorf is the DPLA Assistant Director for Content. She is responsible for digitization partnerships and related workflows, metadata normalization and shareability, and community engagement to promote the DPLA as a community resource.