Posts Tagged ‘School library management’
Managing more strategically
Having goals is absolutely crucial.
One way to get started is to identify your strengths & weaknesses and….your threats & opportunities. Yes, a SWOT.
Capitalising on your strengths and shoring up your weaknesses is a very dynamic approach. Identify your professional learning opportunities through targeting your weaknesses. Leverage the opportunities and use these as advocacy moments. The hard work is identifying threats and seeing how to move this into a positive zone as opportunities.
This video by Erica Olsen succinctly captures the essential components.
The ideas generated from a SWOT can push through to identifying specific goals. To stay focused on your goals you need to plan (strategically) Stephen Covey’s time management matrix helps us to seriously consider Quadrant II. This video from Dr Darryl Cross provides you with a quick overview.
In the busyness of our day to day operations we do need to step back and consider our strategic direction.
School library advocacy and using social media
Did you know that if Facebook was a country it would be the third biggest in the world?
Did you know that YouTube is a popular search engine?
The use of social media to attract attention and to exercise influence is definitely on the rise. As educators it is crucial for us to develop an understanding of these social networking utilities and to then explore how to apply them to our school library services and programs.
School library management hot topics
If you have enjoyed the free report on how to have a successful school library blog then you might be interested in my school library management hot topics – SLM Hot Topics.
These are monthly reports on topics that have been identified by users and you can subscribe to these by going to schoollibrarymanagement.com
An example of the topics covered include utilising Web 2.0 tools, school library renovation, school library advocacy, the power of micro-interaction and more. Each month a new report is added and you get to receive this by automatically subscribing at schoollibrarymanagement.com
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