In a world where multi-tasking is the norm, the skill of being present is getting lost. Being fully engaged ensures that your organization will be ready to meet challenges and see opportunities. To be fully engaged either with a community,a customer or a co-worker, we need to understand and practice the skills of being present, listening, risk taking, flexibility and collaboration. To find creative solutions to problems we need to be aware of our own attention blindness and when our bias or judgments are getting in the way. Cheryl works with managers and leaders to support and coach, build high performing teams, and develop leadership at all levels. Current Projects Creating a Collaborative Culture Through Community Engagement - Omaha Public Library IMLS National Leadership Grant Our communities need neutral, trusted institutions with no agenda to facilitate engagement and bring people together to participate in shared learning and help them achieve their goals. We are training a group of library staff to be facilitators. They are designing, developing, delivering and evaluating progressively more complex community engagement projects over two years. Leadership and Staff Development -County Los Angeles Public Library Year long project to design and pilot a sustainable leadership and staff development program with followup cohorts planned. Over one quarter of the initial cohort was immediately promoted and the organization is already shifting how it runs meetings and seeks to support leadership development at all levels of the organization Expect More Speaker Series I am part of a panel of "Industry Experts" along with keynote David Lankes, the auther of Expect More, travelling to different parts of the country to facilitate conversations with library leaders to talk about what Expect More means to libraries and their communities. The series is sponsored by Tech Logic with it's motto of "People First." Facilitation Skills I am doing several 3 day trainings for different organizations to teach facilitation skills to run both internal staff meetings and external community meetings. The format is 2 days of training followed by a facilitation assignment. Each attendee gets individual feedback and support from me and reports back following their facilitation. There is a follow up day of training to address more complex facilitation skills and the challenges people experienced in their work. Multiple small projects in the areas of creativity, teamwork, leadership and customer service. Please feel free to contact me to discuss your needs: 707.776.4626 cheryl@fullyengagedlibraries.com |