Happiness in the Workplace

How does working at the Library contribute to your happiness? 
What changes do you think we could make to boost morale and improve employee satisfaction? 
 

There is an “I” in Team: Session Recap

In March 2013, Bonnie Cain-Wood attended a session on organizational transitions. Her notes, takeaways and follow up questions are below.

Session Brief: From school sports to the workplace, we’ve been conditioned to believe there is no “I” in team. But that’s a lie. For years, the preferences of individuals have largely been ignored in favor of the team. Organizations have eagerly implemented team-building exercises and trendy collaboration tools to support team effectiveness and productivity; but in doing so, have overlooked individual work styles and preferred tools, leaving individual employees feeling frustrated and unempowered. But there is a new movement afoot, spawned by a generation of individuals who demand to work on their own terms and use their own devices; who want to empower themselves through mobile, social and other technologies to work in a manner that makes sense to them as individuals, not as members of a team.

This session explored the emergence of the "I" Team, its impact on team structure and group collaboration, and the strategies and tools to best support the "I" Team in your organization.

Takeaways:

• Evernote, Dropbox, etc. We bring these tools to work on our own. IT didn't give them to us. We are using personal devices and tools to collaborate on our own terms.
• Workology (link to http://www.mindjet.com/workology/)-different work personalities
• The achievements of an organization are the combined successes of a number of individuals.

Library Applications: What can we do to encourage/foster collaboration on personal terms? For example, I direct my work line to my cell phone because it a better tool. I don't expect the library to pay for it, but it helps me do my job better.

If you would like to share your notes on conference sessions relevant to the Library Future Series contact lib-pub@okstate.edu.

Fair Use and the Future of Libraries

What can we/should we be doing to educate our employees and our patrons about fair use?

The Social Librarian

What are we doing/could we be doing to encourage and facilitate “social librarians”?

The Future of Libraries

Moving forward in our Library Future Series, what topics should we be addressing next?

Mary Stein: What do You Geek?

   

What do we “geek” at our library? What could we “geek” at our library?

Corporate Reset, Make More Mistakes: Session Recap

In March 2013, Bonnie Cain-Wood attended a session on organizational transitions. Her notes, takeaways and follow up questions are below.

Session Brief: Companies continually unleash new products and services, looking to move into new markets and evolve their brand with existing and new audiences. For large corporations this can be overwhelming & complex, how do you become agile enough to pivot at the right time, toward the right areas and with the right people?

Dan Schulman shared his approach to influencing change within a well-established incumbent and lessons learned including the minefields “intrapreneurs” looking to make a drastic change can expect to encounter.

Takeaways:
• You can't define the world as old versus new. It sets up conflict and resistance.
• You overestimate how much change will happen in the next few years. You underestimate how much change will happen in the next 10 years.

Library Applications:
• In this time of transition, are we creating a world of old versus new? What can we do to minimize the conflict and resistance this creates?



If you would like to share your notes on conference sessions relevant to the Library Future Series contact lib-pub@okstate.edu.