Description: This one-day session is designed for library leaders who are challenged to support and sustain staff through changing environmental realities.  Today’s high customer expectations, changing technological demands, and shifting resource allocations require new energy and new commitment from our staffs.  The challenge for library leaders is to find ways to tap the best within their current staff, in spite of challenges facing the organization.  This session will focus on the expectations of leaders for articulating a desired future, communicating and managing performance expectations, supporting and renewing staff engagement levels, and increasing staff focus on service excellence.  Participants will be able to apply learning to such areas as organizational change, recruitment and retention, organizational effectiveness, and organizational responses to the internal and external worlds.

State Library and Archives of Florida Leadership Symposium Webpage.

Eligible Participants:  

· Sunshine State Library Leadership Institute and Sun Seekers Leadership Institute graduates who do not currently hold a position as a library director
· New library directors who have not graduated from either Institute
· Library administrators nominated by their library director

Dates and Sites: The same program will be presented in four locations.  All program sessions will be from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.  There is no registration fee to attend the symposiums.

February 2, 2009
Fruitville Public Library
100 Coburn Rd
Sarasota, FL 34240
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March 3, 2009
Boynton Beach City Library
208 S. Seacrest Blvd.
Boynton Beach, FL 33435
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March 4, 2009
Hollywood Branch/Broward County Library
2600 Hollywood Blvd.
Hollywood, FL 33020
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May 15, 2009
Alachua County Library District Headquarters
401 E. University Ave.
Gainesville, FL
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