TOPIC
Leadership skills & how to build them
I've been in my first leadership role at work since May of last year, and I just finished filling out my first performance review for this role. So to say I've been thinking a lot about how to improve as a leader lately is accurate. Leigh has been doing the same, she just came back from the SLA conference where they talked a lot about leadership. That's what we're going to do this week in our chat. I checked all of the articles on the first page of the Google results for "what makes a good leader" and here are the top 5 most commonly listed skills:
- Communication skills
- Knowing/understanding your team and making time for them
- Being able to focus on the positives
- Being able to learn from your weaknesses and mistakes
- Being able to motivate and persuade people
One that I feel is an important runner-up is a drive to continue to learn and improve, after all that's how you'll build your leadership skills. Here are a few articles with tips for just how to build those skills:
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While you're here please consider checking out our new feature for 2018: #LISPROCHAT Reads, our professional development book club. The first book club session will be running next Monday, February 26, at 8:30 pm ET.
QUESTIONS
We post the questions here in advance of the chat so you can decide whether or not this topic is of interest to you and/or prepare your answers in advance.
Q1 What skills do you think make someone a good and effective leader? Do you think being a good leader is the same as being a good manager?
Q2 What resources do you use in order to build your leadership skills at work?
Q3 What resources do you use to build your leadership skills outside of work?
Q4 Do you think that library schools are doing enough to help produce good and effective library leaders? How would you have them change if not?
Q3 What resources do you use to build your leadership skills outside of work?
Q4 Do you think that library schools are doing enough to help produce good and effective library leaders? How would you have them change if not?
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