[Baynet] Infopeople's "Building Leadership Skills: The Leader as Coach" workshop

Mon Oct 27 12:02:16 PDT 2008

This workshop continues the series of leadership skills-building workshops
that are part of the Eureka! Leadership Program. This is an open
registration workshop. You may register for this workshop without taking any
other workshops in the series. If you are interested in learning more about
the Eureka! Leadership Program, please go to
http://eurekaleadership.org/index.html.

Since some people who may be interested in participating might not receive
this notice directly, we would appreciate it if you would print and post or
route this announcement to staff and colleagues. Thanks!

Title:  Building Leadership Skills:  The Leader as Coach

Dates and locations:

Tuesday, May 5, 2009, San Francisco Public Library

Wednesday, May 6, 2009, San Jose, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library

Tuesday, May 12, 2009, Buena Park Library District

Monday, May 18, 2009, Sacramento Public Library - Galleria

Wednesday, May 20, 2009, Fresno Woodward Park Library

Wednesday, May 27, 2009, San Diego County Library Headquarters

Thursday, May 28, 2009, Los Angeles Public Library

To register for this workshop:  Use the online registration form at

http://infopeople.org/workshop/400

Fee: There is a $75 fee for this workshop.

Effective leaders know how to get the very best from other people, at every
level. If you want to help others to reach their full potential, developing
your coaching skills will enable you to create an environment where focused,
motivated, and self-directed employees want to work and grow. No one
accomplishes significant changes on their own, so coaching is an essential
part of leading your department, team, or agency in new directions. 

Coaching others is about goal-setting for their new or continued
achievements, helping them take different and more positive steps, trusting
intuition (on both sides), and helping them create different results.
Coaching helps you help someone else create a realistic prescription for
change, using tools, your experience, your guidance, career-path mentoring,
and continuing support. When you coach someone, you help that person build
skills, redirect unproductive behaviors, and become more self-reliant. 

Workshop Description: This all-day workshop focuses on practical coaching
tools and techniques. It provides a comfortable learning environment for all
participants to learn the skills they need for their specific work
situations and for the people they will be coaching, now and in the future.
Because coaching is most often a one-on-one process, there will be several
opportunities to practice these skills with others, in a safe and effective
way. The instructor uses a number of low-stress exercises, role plays, and
meeting techniques to help you use coaching as a tool for employee success. 

As part of your training materials, you will receive several assessment
tools; sample coaching scripts for specific issues or problems; a coaching
book and article resource list; and an article on coaching "employee
archetypes" by Dr. Steve Albrecht. 

Preliminary Course Outline

.Why Coaching? 

What coaching is - and what it isn't 

Corrective vs. developmental coaching 

Leading and coaching individuals and groups 

.Laying the Foundations for Coaching: Aligning for Success 

Improving your listening skills 

Using pre-coaching interviews to gather information and build rapport 

Helping coachees create their "bug list" 

The "List of Seven Choices" 

Ethical issues 

.Coaching the Big Four: The Rising Star, the Problem Child, the Plow Horse,
and the Smart Slacker 

Using PAMs (personal accountability meetings) 

Coaching case studies 

.Skill-Building Through Coaching Practice 

Creating a "spectrum of influence" 

Feedback loops, follow-ups, course corrections, and rapport building

Instructor:  Steve Albrecht.  Dr. Steve Albrecht, PHR, CPP is a San
Diego-based consultant and trainer. He is internationally known for his work
on challenging HR issues. He has used his coaching tools and techniques to
successfully help organizations with significant employee behavior issues.
By blending his backgrounds in HR, negotiation, conflict resolution, and
problem-solving, he can teach others to coach.  Steve has taught Infopeople
programs around the state for several years, and he is best known for his
"handling difficult patrons" seminars. In 2005, he hosted five "Management
Monday" webinar sessions for Infopeople as well. He is the author of 15
books for business and law enforcement, including Ticking Bombs, one of the
first books on workplace violence prevention. 

Who Should Attend: This program is for anyone in a leadership or supervisory
position or preparing to become a leader or supervisor in any type of
library. 

Prerequisites: None 

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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.

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