I find that when I sit in on all these fantastic Institute sessions with so many great ideas, I need to actively consider how I’ll take my new enthusiasm and ideas back to my library. How will I get my staff on board for something they didn’t see first hand at the conference?<\/p>\n
I really like two tips gleaned from Saroj Ghoting’s early literacy training format:<\/p>\n
1) Make it personal.<\/strong> My first step will be to ask staff to think about what they already do, to bring a program plan to the discussion to see how new ideas fit in with what they already do (showing that a complete overhaul is not the intention does wonders for morale, don’t you think?).
\n2) Make it interactive.<\/strong> For new ideas that are foreign to what staff currently do, I will demonstrate those new ideas; seeing a new concept or practice in action makes it seem so much more manageable and exciting.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I find that when I sit in on all these fantastic Institute sessions with so many great ideas, I need to actively consider how I’ll take my new enthusiasm and ideas back to my library. How will I get my staff on board for something they didn’t see first hand at the conference? I really like two tips gleaned from Saroj Ghoting’s early literacy training format: 1) Make it personal. My first step will be to ask staff to think about what they already do, to bring a program plan to the discussion to see how new ideas fit in with what they already do (showing that a complete overhaul is not the intention does wonders for morale, don’t you think?). 2) Make it interactive. For new ideas that are foreign to what staff currently do, I will demonstrate those new ideas; seeing a new concept or practice in action…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":162,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[264,192,151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogger-amy-koester","category-institute-2012","category-live-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/162"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}