LIEM – Libraries & Information East Midlands

April 3, 2019May 21, 2019

Knowing Me … Knowing You an introduction to effective communication within teams

Knowing Me … Knowing You
an introduction to effective communication within teams

New Date to be announced shortly

Do you work as part of a team? Do you work with volunteers? Do you need to better communicate with colleagues, managers and volunteers?
Would you like to understand & develop your own style?
Do you need to understand the styles of other team members?
It doesn’t matter who you are communicating with – what level they work at or you are working at – we all need to understand different styles of
communication and working practices.
As one previous participant said: “If only I’d known all this years ago…!

The Jigsaw Discovery Tool

Using the Jigsaw Discovery Tool we will have a really interactive day
exploring and developing skills to benefit you in your team role.
See full details here .
Book your place using this application form.
Any questions?

What is the Jigsaw Discovery Tool?

Increase personal effectiveness and transform business performance
using neuroscience. The Jigsaw Discovery Tool is a unique behavioural
profile tool which uses brain science to enhance personal effectiveness
and increase the performance of the organisation.

Unlike traditional profiling tools, there are no questionnaires forcing
people into either/or choices. The Jigsaw Discovery Tool recognises that
people can and do exhibit opposite behaviours, for example the way in
which people behave at home is often very different from the way they behave at work.

The Jigsaw Discovery Tool takes the learning beyond the point where
many traditional tools stop. It answers the “so what”. People are not leftwondering how the learning can be used and because the Jigsaw
Discovery Tool uses some of the latest evidence in brain science – the
learning actually sticks.

How will this help team work?

Using the tool we will look at our own individual preferences and
behaviours and then we will look carefully at what you know about your
team members and what strengths and weaknesses need developing andwhat tools we need to do that. Often the only issue in teams is a lack of
understanding of how we work within our different individual strengths. Using the tool we learn how to identify what is really causing problems in a relationship and how we can make strong connections by tailoring our
actions and words to accommodate the personality styles of others. In
the words of one previous participant:
‘I just wish I’d known all this year’s ago!’

The Jigsaw Discovery Tool encourages us to think clearly about what we
do and say and learn more about how our brain impacts all our learning
and our behaviour – so come along and find out more about making our working lives more effective.

September 17, 2018

Teaching Skills for Library Staff

Do you deliver sessions on information literacy? Want ideas to make it more effective and interesting? This session is for you.

A one-day course on Teaching Skills for Library Staff, run by Chris Powis, will be held on Thursday 15^th November 2018 at the Leicester Creative Business Depot from 9.45 am to 4.30 pm.

The course which aims to build on participants’ current experiences of teaching information skills in libraries and learning centres, offers stimulating discussion and an excellent opportunity to share experiences. If you are working with young people, students, small groups of library users or staff this course will help you develop your skills as a teacher and trainer.

Practical tips for teaching library users will be set within a theoretical framework of teaching and learning.

Places are now available and early booking is strongly recommended.

Please complete the booking form to reserve a place and return to LIEM by email: training@liem.org.uk.

Cost for participants from LIEM member organisations is £70.00 (£90.00 for non-members) and includes lunch and refreshments.

Aims

To enable participants to understand theories of teaching and learning and to map these on to their own experience of teaching.

To provide participants with strategies to plan, deliver, assess and evaluate their teaching activities.

Objectives

At the end of the workshop participants will:

Be able to relate theories of teaching and learning to their experiences of teaching
Be able to plan a teaching and learning event
Be able to match appropriate teaching methods to learning needs
Have strategies to assess the effectiveness of their teaching
Have strategies to evaluate their teaching

Provisional outline programme for the day

9.45 – 10.00 Coffee and registration

10.00 – 10.10 Welcome and Introductions

10.10 – 11.30 The nature of teaching and learning

11.30 – 12.30 Planning your teaching

12.30 – 1.30 Lunch

1.30 – 3.00 Delivering & assessing your teaching

3.00 – 3.20 Tea

3.20 – 3.50 When things go wrong!

3.50 – 4.00 Getting feedback on your teaching

4.00 – 4.15 Final Plenary

About the facilitator

Chris Powis is Head of Library and Learning Services at the University of Northampton.

Chris is a National Teaching Fellow and wrote this programme with Jo Webb. He has delivered this programme to a wide range of audiences across the UK, Hungary, Slovakia and Finland. Chris and Jo wrote Teaching Information Skills: Theory and Practice, published by Facet in 2004 and 101 Tips for Information Literacy Teaching (with Helen Blanchett), published in November 2011 by Facet.

September 6, 2018September 6, 2018

Developing Exciting and Memorable Training

Do you fear how little your learners actually remember?

Do you want to pass on information and knowledge effectively?

Do you know how to gauge the learning style of each of your learners?

If so this workshop is for you.

This is a one day workshop to help people identify what makes training enjoyable, memorable and something that people can take back into their workplaces and use with confidence.

Every individual learns differently but if we’re going to have them all in one room on training courses we need to understand them and be skilled in finding innovative and varied ways to deliver training and engage people in learning.

The workshop will cover:

Using presentation tools effectively – no more death by PowerPoint!
Understanding how people learn
Developing ‘brain friendly’ exercises that help people learn and retain learning most effectively
Managing challenging learners

By the end of the workshop participants will:

Understand how different people learn
Have some clarity about how best to use PowerPoint
Have developed techniques for identifying engaging exercises and activities
Have investigated techniques to manage changing agendas and challenging participants

The workshop includes a pre-work questionnaire on Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences and a commitment to review the learning and how it can be implemented for six months following the event.

Facilitator: Carol Brooks

Derby Conference Centre – Tuesday 16^th October 2018 – 0915 – 1630

Costs: £100 (LIEM Member); £120 (non LIEM Member)

About the facilitator

Carol Brooks is a learning specialist who runs Chrysalis Development and is a ‘Brain Friendly’ Trainer. She has facilitated this workshop on a number of occasions with some superb feedback. A Fellow of CILIP she has worked with libraries for over 40 years.

Feedback from January 2018

“Thank you for organising such a pleasant and informative day. It was very nice to have a chance to share ideas and experiences with a very pleasant bunch of colleagues working in similar fields, to and to learn a lot of new information that is not only interesting theoretically but also of immediate practical application.”

“A really fun, interesting day which I enjoyed very much, both for its content which was thought provoking and gave me some excellent ideas to take away and try with my students, but also in terms of the networking and chance to share ideas with colleagues working in related areas to my own. The trainer was very engaging and warm. A very worthwhile experience.”

“I found the session was very useful and different than any other training I’ve had. I took with me lots of ideas to be implemented in my sessions and some are quite easy to implement.”

“I’ve just finished a week block of teaching using the new skills you taught me, and the results were outstanding.

I tried as hard as I could – with the time available – to appeal to as many styles as possible.

And here is the amazing thing: when I’ve taught block before [5 consecutive days] although they enjoy day 1 – it is tiring and by the end of day 2 they want to kill you and it gets progressively worse as the week progresses.

BUT last week, having enjoyed day 1 – Monday they came back on Tuesday full of beans and were still buzzing on Wednesday afternoon.

I’ve never had an experience like it in the 10 years I’ve been teaching.

I can’t thank you enough, not just for me, but for helping my students get more out of their studies.”

About the venue

The Derby Conference Centre is easy to access by car, rail and bus. http://thederbyconferencecentre.com/

To book go to http://www.liemhttps://www.liem.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Teaching-Skills-Application-form-Nov-2018.docx complete the form and return it to training@inspire.org.uk

For any further information contact Carol on training@inspire.org.uk

June 5, 2018

Presentation Skills for Library Professionals

The amazing Ned Potter is due to return to the East Midlands to share his knowledge on making presentations exciting and memorable. Don’t miss this opportunity to find out what really makes a presentation work for you – whether it is for training, to convey a new idea, to share reports and statistics or to enliven your social media pages.

The event is being held at DeMontfort University on Thursday 19th July 9.30-4.30. Full details below.

Costs including refreshments and lunch: £130 for LIEM members; £170 for non-members.

This is a hands-on course, exploring in detail what it means to create brilliant presentations. There is a blend of ideas, examples, and hands-on time, that gets everyone up to speed on what truly matters with presenting in a Library context.
The morning session covers the golden rules of creating presentations (all based on peer-reviewed research), finding amazing images without breaking copyright laws or spending any money, and creating PowerPoint Presentations in three different styles. The three styles vary in complexity and flexibility so you can choose which to use for a given presentation.
The afternoon introduces alternatives to PowerPoint such as a Kahoot (an interactive quiz tool) and Prezi (a zooming presentation tool), covers when and when not to use these, and how to use them most effectively. The final section of the day centres around researching presentations, delivering talks and teaching, and conquering nerves.
This course is for staff at all levels who are involved in training, presenting and communicating any aspect of the IT, library and information service It will be invaluable to any professional keen to improve engagement with users. Book using this form

Feedback from previous versions of this course:
“I would definitely offer it to other colleagues as I feel the techniques covered are ones that could be practically incorporated into working practice i.e. they’re not just a gimmick to do once to show you’ve attended the workshop, but something that you can build in to your presentations to continue that search for best practice and therefore better experience for attendees – whether they’re students, staff, or members of the public.”

“Fantastic course, wonderful trainer. One of the best training sessions I have ever been on! Presentation and pace was perfect with plenty of time to try things out.”

“I found this session very useful indeed and will be using all the tips to help improve my presentation skills. For me it was the perfect balance of information, activity, and experimentation. Hugely enjoyable, when are you coming back?”

“Ned is an expert and an engaging speaker. Very supportive atmosphere for learning. I’ve looked at Ned’s material online but it was great to have him explain it. Very, very relevant and a big help in my day-to-day work. Thank you Ned!”

Ned Potter is an Academic Liaison Librarian at the University of York, and a Trainer for various organisations including the Bodleian and the British Library. His book The Library Marketing Toolkit was published by Facet in 2012. Ned can be found online at ned-potter.com and on Twitter at @ned_potter.

August 11, 2017June 19, 2018

Learning On-Line with LIEM

Opportunities to experience a virtual classroom – have the benefits of face to face training, without the travel and cost!

Choose from the following titles….each session is tailored for libraries and information staff.

Get more done: prioritising & planning

‘Saying no nicely’ and other assertiveness techniques

GROW your coaching skills

Select with confidence: competency based interviewing

Numbers are limited to 6 per session so everyone gets involved and the training kept relevant.

All you need to join is a computer and audio. Your facilitator, Diana Edmonds, will guide you through.

As virtual classroom is a new and different way of learning, our offer is to encourage more people to ‘give it a try’.

Each participant will receive a free workbook with invaluable reference material.

To express your interest in one or more of the virtual classroom sessions please email Carol at training@liem.org.uk

Your facilitator, Diana Edmonds, of Bridgford Consultancy, is accredited as an on-line facilitator by the Learning & Performance Institute.

Membership of LIEM costs £150 for Public Library Authorities and £10 for all other LIS organisations. To discuss membership please contact Robert Clayton on treasurer@liem.org.uk

August 11, 2017August 30, 2017

Motivate, Learn, Lead

A cross-sectoral leadership programme for middle managers in the East Midlands

Libraries and Information East Midlands is once again offering an opportunity to develop leadership and influencing skills and to network with library, information and archives colleagues in the East Midlands through its Motivate, Learn, Lead cross-sectoral leadership programme.

Twelve places are available on the programme which is specifically designed for practitioners at middle management level. There are four one-day modules with an introductory half day session, which will take place from November 2017 to March 2017. A further half day review session may be held in autumn 2018.

Aim:

The programme aims to bring together staff from different sectors in the East Midlands to develop their personal leadership and influencing skills and to enhance understanding and networking across the sectors.

Specific objectives are to:

Build personal confidence to provide leadership during times of change

Create a better understanding of self and the impact of one’s own leadership style and behaviours
Develop skills to motivate and influence team members, colleagues and partners during challenging times
Know how to empower, coach and develop team members and colleagues to achieve results
Use creative approaches to encourage fresh thinking and service improvements
Develop partnership and advocacy skills in the libraries context, supporting the cross sectoral agenda

Facilitator:

The programme will be facilitated by Diana Edmonds of Bridgford Consultancy. Bridgford Consultancy works with organisations – in the public, private, and not- for-profit sectors – to develop leadership, team-working and customer service.

Diana has considerable experience of delivering development programmes for library, information and archive services colleagues on many occasions. She is passionate about the importance of people development in achieving organisational success.

The emphasis will be on personal learning and the development of skills and a variety of training methods will be used including questionnaires, discussions, small and large group activities, presentations, team coaching and more. Whilst stretching and challenging course participants, Diana makes a point of adapting to the group, helping people feel at ease and importantly, ensuring they enjoy the programme!

Venue:

The sessions will be held in a variety of library venues to allow participants to see different services. All venues will be near mainline rail stations and on bus routes and will be around the East Midlands region. Although venues have been booked changes may be made to reflect the needs bases of participants.

Dates:

Introductory half day session	Tuesday 14^th November 2017 Nottinghamshire Archives	12.30 – 4.30
Module 1 Leading people through change	Thursday 7^th December 2017 Newark Library	9.30 – 4.45
Module 2 Team development	Monday 8^th January 2018 Loughborough Library	9.30 – 4.45
Module 3 Motivating team members	Monday 5^th February 2018 West Bridgford Library	9.30 – 4.45
Module 4 Partnership and Advocacy	Friday 23^rd March 2018 Derby Hospital or Nottinghamshire Archives	9.30 – 4.45
Review Session	September 2018 To be agreed with participants	Half day
Coffee/ tea will be available from 9.15 on each full day and lunch will be provided.

Cost:

The programme is heavily subsidised by LIEM and the cost per participant will be £350 for LIEM member organisations and £450 for non-members. Member organisations will get priority over places.

Participants:

All participants will meet the following criteria:

Have experience of leading people and/or services either through line management or project work
See themselves as future leaders
Be employed in library, information or archives work in the East Midlands
Have the commitment and ability to put their learning into practice
Be willing to commit time to pre and post module work through reading and sharing information/experiences with other participants
Have commitment to attend all sessions
Have the support of their manager and be able to identify someone who will act as their

Participants must be able to attend all sessions.

Applications:

Please complete the application form including an endorsement from an appropriate, named, senior manager which shows how you will be given support before, during and after the programme.

Applications must reach LIEM by email attachment, to training@liem.org.uk by Wednesday 18^th October 2017.

All applications will be acknowledged and the offer of a place on the programme will be confirmed by 1 November 2017 after consideration by the Steering Group. Please keep all the dates clear until that date.

If you would like any further information about the programme please contact the Steering Group via Carol Brooks, LIEM Training Co-ordinator on 07970 188079 or at training@liem.org.uk.