[Baynet] Infopeople's workshop on Peer Training and Mentoring

[Linda Rodenspiel]

Since this announcement might not reach everyone who might be interested in 
this workshop, we would appreciate it if you would please print and post or 
route the announcement to your colleagues.

Title:  You’ve Got What It Takes: Peer Training and Mentoring for Staff 
Development

Dates and locations:

Tuesday, January 17, Sacramento Public Library - Galleria
Wednesday, February 15, Los Angeles Public Library
Tuesday, March 7, Mountain View Public Library
Monday, April 3, Fullerton Public Library
Wednesday, April 19, San Francisco Public Library
Thursday, May 4, Fresno Woodward Park Library

To register for this workshop:  Use the online registration form at
http://infopeople.org/WS/workshop/Workshop/242

Fee:  There is a $75.00 fee for this workshop.

Your knowledge is valuable - especially if you know how to pass it along!

Have you been tasked with mentoring a colleague but don’t know where to start?
Are you expected to provide background information for new staff with 
diverse backgrounds and no prior library experience?
Does your library need to prepare all employees for an upcoming 
organization-wide change?
Would the loss of key skills or knowledge held by single individuals create 
a crisis for your department?

This workshop will explore techniques for providing in-house training on 
any budget in any sized library, using the knowledge and skills that 
already exist in your organization. You will learn how you can use peer 
training and mentoring to foster staff involvement and excitement, build an 
organizational culture of learning and teamwork, and ease any change 
process. At the end of the workshop, you will outline your own approach to 
peer training or mentoring and leave with an action plan for how to begin.

Workshop Description: This all-day interactive workshop will utilize class 
discussion, individual and group exercises, and real-life examples to 
provide you with the tools you need for designing peer training and 
mentoring solutions for a variety of individual and group situations. The 
class will consider potential challenges that could come up in different 
library settings and share creative and successful ways to meet them. The 
instructor will provide handouts, as well as practical, useful tips, and 
will help you work on your own action plan for a peer training or peer 
mentoring experience in your library.

Pre-workshop assignment: (Optional) This course will be even more valuable 
to you if you come to the workshop with an idea for a training need or a 
possible mentoring assignment in your library. Students will also be 
provided with library scenarios to use during the exercises and plan 
development.

Preliminary Course Outline:

What is Peer Training, and Why Do It?
What is Peer Mentoring, and Why Do It?
How to Begin
--Identify the training goal
--Determine the desired outcome
How to Plan and Implement Peer Training
--Identify potential trainers
--Work with training team to prepare and test training plan
--Schedule for success
--Practice for success
--Go! and pay attention
--Evaluate for success
--Follow-up for success
--Congratulate! for future success
How to Plan and Implement Peer Mentoring
--Assess the individual’s needs or goals and desired outcomes
--Find out what the individual already knows or what is already working well
--Determine the priorities or what needs to come first
--Personalize the coaching sessions and assignments
--Evaluate the new skills
--Follow up where needed
Challenges: How To Anticipate Them, How to Meet Them
--Recruiting reluctant trainers or mentors
--Securing commitment from reluctant supervisors
--Attracting reluctant students
--Finding the knowledge in your own organization
--Meeting a tight deadline
--Providing practice opportunity during long training roll-out or after 
training ends
--Providing practice opportunity during long training roll-out or after 
training ends
--Other challenges in your library
Design Your Own Peer Training or Peer Mentoring Plan

Workshop Instructor: Janet Hildebrand.  As Central Library Manager since 
2001, Janet Hildebrand acts as training coordinator for the Contra Costa 
County Library, where a peer training model has been developed over the 
last 10 years. She is the program organizer for a program about peer 
training scheduled for the March 2006 PLA Conference. She has managed two 
system-wide conversion trainings, maintained and expanded a 3 ½ week New 
Employee Training Program required of all new employees, and initiated the 
development of other workshop topics for continuing development of staff 
using peer trainer teams.

Who Should Attend: Anyone from the California library community with an 
interest in staff development, personal development, or new approaches to 
training, or who must respond to turnover and change in his or her 
organization.

Prerequisites: None

Other logistics:

*On-site check-in is from 8:30-9:00 AM;  instruction is from 9:00 AM-4:30 PM.

*Maps, directions, and parking information are available on the Infopeople 
Web site at http://infopeople.org/WS/workshop/Directions.  Infopeople does 
not validate or pay for parking.

*Infopeople does not provide refreshments or lunch.  Since some training 
locations do not have in-house or convenient food service, Infopeople 
recommends that participants bring a sack lunch.

To view a complete list of Infopeople workshops and for general information 
about Infopeople training opportunities, go to the main Infopeople 
Workshops page at http://infopeople.org/WS/workshop

If you have questions about registration or scheduling of workshops, please 
contact Linda Rodenspiel, the Infopeople Project Assistant, at 
assist at infopeople.org or by phone at 650-578-9685.