[Baynet] Infopeople's updated Effective Time Management online course

[Linda Rodenspiel]

Infopeople is pleased to offer an updated version of the online 
course Effective Time Management for Library Staff. This new version 
incorporates Web 2.0 applications that were not available when the 
course was last offered (2005). Time management was identified by 
participants in the Eureka! Leadership Program as an important skill 
that was not covered in any of the Phase 2 workshops, so this course 
should be of particular interest to those wishing to develop their 
leadership potential or move forward in library supervision and management.


Title:  Effective Time Management for Library Staff 2008 (online 
learning course)

Dates:  February 5, 2008 - March 17, 2008

To register for this workshop:  Use the online registration form at
http://infopeople.org/workshop/364

Fee: $75 for those in the California library community, $150 for 
those out-of-state.


Do you ever leave work stressed because your "to-do" list isn't even 
half finished?

Managing time is a key element in your on-the-job success. No matter 
what your position, the strength of your time management skills and 
habits affects both your daily performance and your personal wellbeing.

In this course you will design a plan that will help you react and 
adapt to the constantly changing rhythms and tempos of your life. You 
will practice your new skills and receive coaching to meet your 
specific needs so that you will be better able to:

--Identify what is the most important
--Anticipate problems and overcome obstacles
--Find hidden shortcuts in every project
--Resolve conflicts when other people's goals compete with yours
--Stop procrastinating


Workshop Description: This six-week online learning course will help 
you improve your skills in managing your time on a daily basis as 
well as your long-term projects. You will learn strategies and 
techniques to control how you spend your time, stop time-wasting 
behaviors, and get the most important things done efficiently and effectively.

Through readings, online discussion and chat, structured exercises, 
and writing assignments you will learn how to create and modify a 
flexible time management system based on your unique expectations, 
thinking style, and temperament. The course will utilize 
library-specific situations and examples in the readings and exercises.

Outcomes: By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

1. Analyze their time management problems and sort them into three 
categories: technical, environmental and psychological
2. Design a customized time management system that deals with the 
three categories of problems
3. Create a customized time management review and evaluation process
4. Demonstrate strategies for diagnosing and solving problems that 
they expect to arise subsequent to the course

Preliminary Course Outline:

Module One: Overview of effective time management
--Welcome
--Planning for success
--Categorizing your time management problems

Module Two: Validating your time management self assessment
--Using time logs
--Analyzing your time logs

Module Three: Discovering Your Strengths
--Determining your personal style, preferences and needs
--Developing your personal mission statement and goals

Module Four: Time Management Essentials
--Choosing and prioritizing your activities
--Exploring time management tools

Module Five: Developing your customized plan and overall process
--Designing your customized plan
--Streamlining your overall process

Module Six: Your journey towards satisfaction
--Troubleshooting your plan and overall process
--Maintaining your motivation
--Additional resources

Instructor:  Gail McGovern.  Gail received her B.A. in religion and 
M.S. in Library Science from Syracuse University.  She moved to 
California in 1973 as the project director for the Lake County 
Library Project. From 1974-1995, she administered grant programs, 
provided consulting services and conducted training programs for the 
Library Development Services Bureau of the California State 
Library.  Gail has been a full time independent consultant since 
1996; her title is Planning and Training Wizard. Her recent projects 
include grantwriting for and coordination of three LSTA funded 
conferences for the clioinstitute: Imagine it, Explore it, Create it 
Conference, Get Real! Helping Libraries Survive and Thrive in 
Turbulent Times Conference and Better Together: Creating Partnerships 
for Community Learning Conference.

Online Learning Details:
This six-week course will be taught online using the web. When you 
register, you will receive a registration confirmation that will 
include the URL to get to the course, as well as a username and password.

Every student proceeds through the online learning modules at his or 
her own pace. Students should expect to commit to spending a minimum 
of 2 to 3 hours per week on this course in order to be successful. 
You can work on each module at your own pace, at any hour of the day 
or night. However, you will be expected to log in to the course each 
week to do that week's assignment. We ask that you log in sometime 
during the first week of the course to begin the course work.

Your instructor will be available for limited consultation support 
for two weeks after the official end date of a course, and the course 
material will stay up for an additional two weeks after that, to give 
those who have fallen behind time to work independently on the 
course. However, you will be expected to accomplish the majority of 
the course in synchronization with your peers during the first six weeks.

Who Should Take This Course: Anyone who wants to improve his or her 
time management skills

Prerequisites:
This course is taught over the web. You must:

--Have an Internet connection and Internet Explorer 6.0 or higher.
--Be able to save Microsoft Word .doc or Adobe .pdf files to your 
computer and print them out. (For .doc files, a free Word Viewer is 
available at 
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/search.aspx?displaylang=en. Search 
for "Word Viewer." For .pdf files, a free Adobe Acrobat Reader is 
available at http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/main.html).
--Be comfortable navigating on the web and navigating back and 
forward on a website that uses frames.

To be most successful in this course you should be willing to share 
information with your colleagues and be willing to spend time reading 
and participating in the weekly discussion boards.

System Requirements: The online learning product that Infopeople uses 
is called Angel. The following are minimum system requirements for 
using Angel. You will need access to a computer that has at least 
these specifications to participate in an online course:

Windows:
--Internet Explorer 6.0 and above, Netscape 7.1 and above, or Firefox 
1.5 and above

Macintosh:
--Mozilla 1.4 and above (which is the same engine as Netscape 7.1), 
Safari 2.0 and above, or Firefox 1.5 and above
--OS X and above (OS 9 will NOT work with our online learning product)

If you are not comfortable with any of the above, please consider 
taking this course with a colleague who does meet these requirements.

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://www.infopeople.org/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.