Trailblazer: Charting Your Path to More Effective Management and Leadership - Fleming Island (03/26/19)

This one-day classroom-based program highlights the profile of high-performing supervisors. This highly interactive workshop guides participants through an exploration of the differences in management vs. leadership and provides opportunities to discover how their strengths and potential career derailers impact their success. With this as a foundation, participants discuss their own powerful development experiences and how they can leverage these in their role as a coach to develop their staff. As a result of this program, participants create an action plan that will contribute to success in their current or future leadership role. 

Objectives

• Recognize the impact of effective supervision on staff engagement. 
• Identify the knowledge, skills, and behaviors that make up the success profile of an effective supervisor. 
• Explain the importance of balancing both leading and managing behaviors. 
• Recognize the links between personal strength and areas for development to the supervisor success profile. 
• Identify development methods that have worked effectively for you and those that can benefit your employees. 
• Explain importance of self-reflection. 
• Practice using coaching skills for performance and growth. 
• Create an action plan to GROW as a supervisor. 

Trainer: Jay Turner, Success Coach @EduJay, LLC

Jay Turner is a long-time librarian, speaker, consultant, and success coach at his consulting firm, EduJay LLC. He began his career in public libraries as a teenager shelving books, and over the next two decades, he operated in a myriad of public service and administrative roles. Jay has served on the board of directors for the Public Library Association, been recognized by Library Journal as a Mover and Shaker, and received the Nix Jones Award for substantial contributions to libraries. Along with a distinguished career in libraries, Jay has used his expertise to administer executive development and leadership develop programs, implement multi-million dollar learning management system projects, and coach scores of individuals from various walks of life. He champions cost-effective, results-driven learning solutions for libraries and other non-profit organizations with EduJay LLC.

Cost: NEFLIN classes are free of charge for Florida library staff.  Registration is required for all classes and NEFLIN members get priority.