The Encouraging Workplace
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At today’s ABC-CLIO blog, I’ve posted on what workers want from their jobs in order to do their best.
Here’s the lead in to my story:
Author Guest Post -The Encouraging Workplace
John Lubans, Jr., author of "Leading from the Middle," and Other Contrarian Essays on Library Leadership (Libraries Unlimited, 2010) sheds a little light on how to build a positive work environment.
The post directly below of course raises a similar question: How do we retain the best and the brightest?
It was not long ago when a head of cataloging at a prestigious ivy library told me that it took her 6 months to instill the (Name of her institution)-way into the soft little heads of new recruits, especially those that had any ideas about changing work flow and streamlining!
Here’s the lead in to my story:
Author Guest Post -The Encouraging Workplace
John Lubans, Jr., author of "Leading from the Middle," and Other Contrarian Essays on Library Leadership (Libraries Unlimited, 2010) sheds a little light on how to build a positive work environment.
The post directly below of course raises a similar question: How do we retain the best and the brightest?
It was not long ago when a head of cataloging at a prestigious ivy library told me that it took her 6 months to instill the (Name of her institution)-way into the soft little heads of new recruits, especially those that had any ideas about changing work flow and streamlining!
John Lubans - portrait by WSJ