Strategic Approaches to Managing Your Workload

$250.00

Dates: May 6 - June 2

Credits: 1.5 CEUs or 15 PDHs

We’ve been asked to “do more with less” for more than a decade. Not surprisingly, burnout has become a significant issue in libraries. When your plate is overflowing with work, it can seem like there is no time to do anything but react, which obstructs your ability to develop strategies to more effectively manage the workload. Taking time to reflect and prioritize can feel like a luxury you can’t afford in that context, but it’s critical to adopting a strategic approach to managing the many demands on your time.

This course will discuss strategies, while also providing space for you to take that time to reflect and prioritize your work. This course will address:

  • Key components in developing a strategy for managing your workload
  • Some “productivity tools” that can be useful in managing your workload
  • Strategies for saying “no” to requests that you take on more work
Category:
Instructor:
Topic Area:

Course Information

Session

Credits

1.5 CEUs or 15 PDHs

Registration dates

We accept registrations through the first week of classes, unless enrollment is full, and unless the class was canceled before it started due to low enrollment.

Course Description

We’ve been asked to “do more with less” for more than a decade. Not surprisingly, burnout has become a significant issue in libraries. When your plate is overflowing with work, it can seem like there is no time to do anything but react, which obstructs your ability to develop strategies to more effectively manage the workload. Taking time to reflect and prioritize can feel like a luxury you can’t afford in that context, but it’s critical to adopting a strategic approach to managing the many demands on your time.

This course will discuss strategies, while also providing space for you to take that time to reflect and prioritize your work. This course will address:

  • Key components in developing a strategy for managing your workload
  • Some “productivity tools” that can be useful in managing your workload
  • Strategies for saying “no” to requests that you take on more work

Angela Pashia

Angela Pashia is a leadership and career development coach with a dozen years of experience as an academic librarian. Angela's approach to coaching focuses on partnering with clients to empower them to reach their goals, whether they’re ready to take their career to the next level or feel stuck in their job and want to explore their options beyond libraries. Angela's featured group program is designed to support library leaders in developing a coaching approach to leadership, adapting the professional coaching skills that are most relevant for library leaders. Angela graduated from an ICF-accredited professional coach training program in 2023. As a librarian, Angela focused on using critical pedagogy approaches in teaching critical information literacy, mentoring colleagues, working against structural oppression within libraries, and growing as a collaborative leader. Angela published two co-edited books and several book chapters and articles on these topics. Angela’s latest book, Using Open Educational Resources to Promote Social Justice, co-edited with CJ Ivory, was published in 2022. Angela’s first co-edited book (with Jessica Critten), Critical Approaches to Credit-Bearing Information Literacy Courses, was selected as an ACRL Instruction Section, Teaching Methods Committee Selected Resource in 2020. Learn more at https://angelapashia.com/

How to Register

To enroll yourself or other participants in a class, use the “Register” button that follows the description of each course. If the “Register” button does not show up, try loading the page in a different web browser. Contact us if you have technical difficulties using our shopping cart system or would like to pay for an enrollment using another method. On the payment page in the shopping cart system, there is a place to add notes, such as the names and email addresses of participants you wish to enroll. We will contact you to request this information in response to your processed payment if you do not include it in the “notes” field. Prior to the start of the workshop, we will send participants their login instructions.

Payment Info

Our shopping cart system allows you to pay with a credit card or with PayPal.

Alternatively, if it is an institutional payment, we can arrange to invoice you. Contact us by email, and we can make arrangements to suit your institution's business processes.

Special Session

Please contact us to arrange a special session of this class for a group of seven or more, with a negotiable discount, or to be notified when it is next scheduled.

Reviews

There are no reviews yet.

Be the first to review “Strategic Approaches to Managing Your Workload”

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.