Free, online, continuing education events for the week of June 20 from the Wyoming State Library Training Calendar. Descriptions and links are below. You can subscribe and view the events in your calendar software, or you can find all the events at library.wyo.gov/services/training/calendar.
All times MDT
Tuesday, June 21 (11-12 pm)
Continuous Improvement Trumps Strategy: How to Become a Learning Organization (Fast Forward Libraries)
Just having a strategic plan doesn’t guarantee success! Many strategic plans are never ending “to do” lists that don’t articulate progress or impact. Shift your library by developing a meaningful, aspirational plan supported by learning-focused implementation and management tools. Learn how to ground your library’s plan in systems thinking and learning organization practices. Creating a living plan that’s adaptive and responsive from the inside out will help your library and community learn and grow together!
Tuesday, June 21 (12-1 pm)
Gale OneFile: Educator’s Reference Complete (Gale)
Gale OneFile: Educator’s Reference Complete contains more than 1,100 periodicals and 200 reports focused on K12 and post-secondary pedagogy. The resource contains information for every level of educator, as well as insight into administration, funding, and policy. Join this session intended for library staff, educators, and administrators to explore the tools, features, and content within this resource.
Tuesday, June 21 (12-1 pm)
How Emotional Intelligence Can Help You In The Workplace (GovLoop)
You can’t separate your emotions from the work you do, and neither can anyone else. That’s why emotional intelligence (EI) is critical to your success on the job. EI is the ability to understand, use and manage your emotions, and to connect with the emotions of others.
Tuesday, June 21 (12-1:30 pm)
Disaster Response for Performing Arts Organizations (Lyrasis)
Emergency response can be a daunting prospect for performing arts organizations. This webinar will lay out the basic tenets of responding to an emergency including support organizations, working with vendors, and helpful resources for organization and planning. There will also be a brief introduction to the Incident Command System so that performing arts centers can work more seamlessly with their local first responders.
Tuesday, June 21 (12-1 pm)
Lessons Learned: Engaging Teens In Evaluating Online Health Information (Network of the National Library of Medicine)
Join the National Association of Hispanic Nurses Connecticut Chapter (NAHN-CT) to learn about their successful 2020-2021 NNLM funded project to bring training to teens about evaluating health information online. Hear about the program, next steps and lessons learned, barriers and best practices for bringing programming to teens.
Wednesday, June 22 (9-10 am)
Data Makeovers: How to Make Your Data More Beautiful and Engaging (Nonprofit Learning Lab)
Data visualization is like one of those unlikely couples. One partner is outgoing and a great storyteller. The other is introverted and sticks to the facts. To make great charts, maps, and graphs, you need to channel both partners in this odd couple: the artist and the analyst. In this workshop, I will offer up 10 key rules about composition that artists know and that analysts (and the rest of us) can apply when presenting data.
Wednesday, June 22 (9-10 am)
NCompass Live: Retirement: Time to Ease on Down, Ease on Down the Road (Nebraska Library Commission)
Over the course of your career, you spend quite a bit of time planning your professional development, envisioning your career path, and deciding on the degrees or training you need in your professional life. Conversely, how much time do you spend planning a transition away from that life in a healthy, graceful manner? Join us for an exploration of why, when, and how to retire, and hear best practices and wish-I-hadn’ts based on recent retiree’s experiences. We will include transitioning to a fixed income, implementing a succession plan at your library, and adapting to life as a retiree.
Wednesday, June 22 (11-12 pm)
Scenario Planning in Uncertain Times (Propel Nonprofits)
We all have learned skills to build assumptions that reliably helped us predict the next year or two for our organizations. But do you find your carefully developed budgets, forecasts, and plans suddenly have been turned upside down? Now you’re not sure your tools still work, but you know you must do something. Join us as we explore how to assess your current and future financial positions by developing new scenarios and contingency plans for your organizations.
Wednesday, June 22 (12-1 pm)
Am I Doing This Right? Advice for First Time Managers (Georgia Library Association)
Becoming a manager is an exciting but also daunting transition. As first-time managers, we are faced with many new opportunities which may seem more like challenges, especially if we are new to the library system, have recently received a promotion, or struggle with imposter syndrome. In this webinar we will discuss strengths-based leadership, how and what to delegate, strategies for self-care, time management tips, and more.
Wednesday, June 22 (12-1 pm)
A New Frontier – Setting Your Library Up for Remote Work Success (Niche Academy)
Join author and librarian Molly Virello as she discusses how librarians can lay the framework for successful remote work in a library setting. The focus of this webinar will be about the conversations library staff, managers, and other library leadership should have (or at least keep in mind) in order to create library-specific remote work policies, including laying out expectations, term limits, and criteria in order to facilitate working outside of traditional library spaces. These conversations can bring remote work that much closer for librarians, ranging in time from a few hours to a few months.
Wednesday, June 22 (1-2 pm)
Introduction to Proposal Writing (Candid Learning)
Are you new to proposal writing or want a quick refresher? This class will provide you with an overview of how to write a standard project proposal to a foundation.
Wednesday, June 22 (1-2 pm)
Active Listening: How to Use Audio to Empower Every Student’s Learning Journey (edWeb)
Discover how the power of audio—podcasts, audiobooks, and music—provides increased accessibility to content and information, how audio aids in building and boosting literacy and active listening skills, why equitable access of resources is critical, and how building mindful listening experiences into the curriculum, across grades and subjects, can be transformative for students at every age and grade.
Wednesday, June 22 (1-2:30 pm)
I See You: The Strengths-Based Perspective in Public Service SBEC (Texas State Library and Archives Commission)
Think of a time when a friend or loved one built up your confidence and made you feel understood. What did they say? What was their tone? What did they notice in you? Did they focus on your faults or did they emphasize your strengths? This session will introduce the strengths-based perspective, examine its use in a world that is often problem-focused, and discuss the ways in which focusing on the strengths of our patrons can help empower our communities.
Thursday, June 23 (11-12 pm)
The Great Transfer of Wealth: How to Reach The Next Generation of Donors (Charity Village)
Millennials have surpassed other generations in their population size and generosity mindset. This signals the rise of micro-philanthropy, where more frequent smaller donations match the occasional larger donations. In this session, we will discuss the trends that highlight current generational shifts in giving behaviors and how this directly impacts your nonprofit organization. You will learn how to implement key donor cultivation and fundraising strategies to attract and retain younger donors.
Thursday, June 23 (11-12:30 pm)
Care of Musical Instruments (Connecting to Collections Care)
Musical instruments are a unique but not uncommon object type found in collections for various sized cultural institutions. In this webinar attendees will learn about the basic requirements to ensure the conservation of a collection of musical instruments, as well as various methods for their registration and documentation. The instrumental groups will be explained according to their function, materials, technology and condition of use, as well as the challenges involved in the preservation of each one according to their vulnerability. The session is focused on any collection, regardless of its size, use or location.
Thursday, June 23 (12-1 pm)
How to Access Education Data (US Census Bureau)
Learn how to access education data, using a variety of online tools. In this training, you will also learn the source of the data, the tables available on the subject, and how to download and create maps.
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