Practical Tips for Developing Your Staff

Tracey Pratchett has a flexible and innovative approach to developing both herself and others within her team. She has worked in the health sector for 9 years as a Clinical Librarian, and for the past year as the Knowledge and Library Services Manager at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals. Prior to this Tracey worked in both further education and public libraries. Many of the tips in this book have been used by Tracey to develop her current role and to benefit her team. As the joint project lead for the MAP (Making Alignment a Priority) toolkit (https://maptoolkit.wordpress.com/), and a member of the Knowledge for Healthcare Metrics Working Group, Tracey enjoys sharing learning and developing staff through both informal and formal networks.

Practical Tips for Developing Your Staff is a methodical guide written by information professionals, for information professionals and librarians. Chapters offer a wide array of activities and tools to help professionals in the field tap the full potential of their staff ... Highly recommended.

• Series Editor’s introductionIntroductionSECTION 1: THEORIES1. Understanding how People Behave, Learn and Develop2. KOLB Learning Cycle and Styles3. Honey and Mumford – Learning Styles4 . VAK Learning Styles5. MBTI® – Myers Briggs® Type Indicator6. Jigsaw Discovery Tool©7. The DiSC® Model8. Benziger Thinking Styles Assessment (BTSA)9. SDI – Strength Deployment Inventory®10. Kirkpatrick’s four levels of evaluation modelSECTION 2: INFRASTRUCTURE11. Why Develop Staff?12. Workforce Planning13. Job Descriptions14. Person Specifications15. Advertisements16. Shortlisting17. Interviews18. Interviews – Presentations and Tests 19. Interviews – Feedback 20. Inductions21. Managing Performance22. Team Development Plans23. Appraisals – Preparing24. Appraisals – Conducting 25. Setting Objectives26. One-to-ones27. Feedback – General28. Team Building29. Team Meetings30. Sharing Learning with the Team31. Writing References32. Exit Interviews33. Effective HandoverSECTION 3: ACTIVITIES AND TOOLS34. Action Learning Sets35. Apprentices, Graduate Trainees and Placements 36. Awards 37. Buddying 38. CILIP Qualifications39. CILIP Qualifications – Re-validation 40. Coaching 41. Collaborative Working 42. Communities of Practice – Internal 43. Communities of Practice – External44. Conferences – Attending 45. Conferences – Organizing46. Conferences – Posters47. Conferences – Presenting48. Conferences – Sharing the Learning (using blogs, Twitter, articles, presentations to others etc.) 49. Conferences – Volunteering 50. Conferences – Workshops51. Conferences – Writing Proposals for Papers52. CVs 53. Exchange of Experience Events, TeachMeets and Unconferences54. Formal Qualifications55. Funding for CPD56. Group Conversations 57. Job Rotation 58. Learning Logs and Journals 59. Meetings – Attending60. Meetings – Chairing61. Meetings – Note Taking62. Mentoring – External 63. Mentoring – Peer 64. Minutes of Madness65. MOOCS66. Networks67. Networks – Setting up 68. Networks – Running 69. Personal Development Plans70. Presentations – General Tips71. Professional Membership72. Projects 73. Project Management Tools 74. Reflection – Facilitating 75. Reflective Practice 76. Reflective Writing 77. Research Activities 78. Secondments 79. Shadowing 80. Social Media81. SWOT Analysis82. Time Management 83. Time Management Tools 84. Training Courses – Attending85. Training Courses – Commissioning 86. Training Courses – Planning, Delivering and Evaluating 87. Twitter 88. Twitter Chats89. VLEs 90. Visits 91. Volunteering92. Webinars 93. Writing Blog Posts 94. Writing Business Cases 95. Writing Case Studies 96. Writing Emails 97. Writing Journal Articles98. Writing Newsletter Articles 99. Writing Procedures100. Writing Project Plans 101. Writing Reports Index