[OPLINLIST] Innovation & Risk Taking Workshop by NEO-RLS

[Chris Hopkins]

Innovation and Risk Taking in Libraries

 

11/15/2006  - Greenbriar Conference Center, Wooster, OH

OR

11/16/06 – Hilton Garden Inn, Twinsburg, OH

9:30 a.m. -4:00 p.m.

Speaker: Joan Frye Williams, Consultant

 Few library employees have extensive experience as entrepreneurs, experimenters, or risk-takers. And when library resources are limited, it's natural for us to be cautious. Nevertheless, the ability to size up - and take - a calculated risk can be the key to successful change and innovation. In this lively, interactive session, we will explore how to:

-Choose the most promising innovations in the first place

-Decide when a risk is justified and when it isn't

-Articulate risks and benefits for effective communication

-Use existing library assets as a safety net

-Avoid common innovation pitfalls, and

-Recover from missteps when (not if!) - they happen

Learn how to keep customer satisfaction UP and your blood pressure DOWN by improving your innovation and risk-taking skills. 

Meals: Choice of Vegetarian or Non-Vegetarain  

Audience: Management 

Contact Hours: 5 

Member Cost: $ 85.00   

Non-Member Cost: $170.00 

 

Register here for 11/15/06 at Greenbriar in Wooster

http://www.neo-rls.org/Serendipity/ce/eventdetail.cfm?ID=93

 

Register here for 11/16/06 at Hilton Garden Inn in Twinsburg

http://www.neo-rls.org/Serendipity/ce/eventdetail.cfm?ID=94

 

Chris Hopkins, CE Specialist

Northeast Ohio Regional Library System

Cell: 330-501-0118