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Change Management and Leadership: Discussion Questions
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Whether you’re learning with a local or statewide cohort, or on your own, it always helps to have additional prompting to consider and apply the things you have learned.

Use the discussion questions for the following Lessons from Change Management and Leadership to assist you in your learning experience:
Discussion questions for the final chapters will be posted later in the month.
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March COM: Change Management and Leadership
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The Library Management course for this month is Change Management and Leadership. If you need some additional motivation for enrolling in this Course of the Month, read through these timely objectives.

After completing Change Management and Leadership…

1. You will know how to learn the specifics when someone uses the word “change”, and everyone else looks puzzled.

2. You will be able to assess both the benefits and the costs of change in your job, department, branch, library, institution, and community.

3. You will understand how change impacts people in your library differently and have more empathy for their points of view.

4. You will know what mistakes are likely and how to lower their impact on you and the rest of the staff.

5. You will feel more calm and confident, even when the world is unraveling.

6. You will better maintain a benevolent sense of humor, and be less likely to wound others with negative gossip and mean-spirited sarcasm.

7. You will be able to be more influential during times of change, whether from the leadership role or as one of the people asked to do their work differently.

8. You will be able to use simple methods to communicate information that could seem ambiguous and even contradictory.

9. You will be able to better make change work for you, rather than feel overwhelmed.

10. You might even look forward to change in your library. (Extra credit!)
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It’s March 3 – Do you know what that means?
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It means it’s time to start a fresh learning adventure with the WJIL Course of the Month Group. Come join the group, enroll in the course of your choice and enter into the statewide learning cohort as we tackle these two courses for the month.

Technical: Creating and Maintaining an Engaging School Website
- This tutorial is a basic introduction to designing a web page for your school library or media center. The idea of building a website can be somewhat daunting with so many considerations that often we get stuck before we get out of first gear. It is the intent of this tutorial to clear a path to the finish line by offering you the tools to make sense of the clutter and to assist you in taking your first steps in designing your own web page.
Library Management: Change Management and Leadership
- Change is a given in 21st century libraries: intrusive, exhilarating, and growing in strength and frequency. Being an effective change agent and coping with change partly depends on your sense of perspective. We cannot promise that this course will either turn back the clock or guarantee that everyone in your library will unquestioningly accept change. However, there are benefits from studying other people’s experiences and some of the effective principles and practices of change management.
Fill out the webform on the Course of the Month group page and let us know which course you’ll be enrolling in, then click on the Discussion tab to join in or add your own comments.
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