Quick, Cheap and Decent Strategic Planning for the Library Webcast 

This is a 60 minute pre-recorded webcast. With our online anytime format, you will immediately receive the link to the webcast, password and the link to the webcast handout upon successful registration. You do not need any special software to view and listen, just a computer!  Since passwords are changed frequently, we suggest viewing the webcast as soon as possible after registering.

Description:

Strategic planning can be overwhelming, but there are simple models that focus on shared concrete goals, specific priorities, and target audiences. Something important changes. If you remove the jargon and complex diagrams, even the smallest library can create a plan that aligns people and resources to achieve common ends.

Agenda: Click here for agenda

The Key Idea: Focus on what will help your library support the better future of the people, institutions, and communities you serve.

Outcomes:

• Ensure continuous process to learn concerns and goals of the community your library serves.
• Identify three major change goals for the coming year.
• Identify three target audiences that will impact service decisions.
• Translate big strategic goals into project assignments.
• Review and adjust existing strategic goals.

Presenter:

Pat Wagner has been a trainer, educator, and consultant for 40 years, having worked with clients in 48 states and Canada. She is a manager and producer at Pattern Research, Inc. Pat likes to find the essence in models of human behavior and organizational design and build effective and engaging formats for learning: face-to-face, in print, and online. She has been a poet, playwright, printer, publisher, and graphic designer, and loves books, gardens, and the arts.

Cost:

Each registration entitles the registrant only to access the webcast. Registrations may not be shared in any way or viewed in a group setting. You may not broadcast or redistribute in any way without prior approval from Mid-America Library Alliance. That includes, but is not limited to, displaying webcast via projector, large screen tv, or overhead projector.

• MALA Member: $20.00
• Non-Member: $40.00

MALA Webcast Billing/Refund/Credit Policy:  We prefer all webcasts to be prepaid.  If you prefer to be billed, there is a $5 charge for this service.