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Strategic planning, collaboration, continual stewardship, best practices, and re-engineering can provide librarians with a toolkit of innovative strategies that meets the worst of economic times with bold, persistent experimentation.This book covers the implications for libraries of a broad range of technological and economic challenges. These challenges include the fallout from the global economic crisis, the positioning of usage statistics, the advent of open access scholarship, database management, responding to budgetary constrictions and general access to serials.Taken as a whole, this collection provides practitioners in the library sector and in higher education with a wide variety of insights on the strengths, weaknesses, threats and opportunities involved with serials collection management in recessionary times, written by academic librarians, vendors, publishers, fundraisers, and higher education professionals.This book was published as a special issue of The Serials Librarian.

The Trainer’s Workshop Series is designed to be a practical, hands-on roadmap to help you quickly develop training in key business areas. Each book in the series offers all the exercises, handouts, assessments, structured experiences and ready-to-use presentations needed to develop effective training sessions. In addition to easy-to-use icons, each book in the series includes downloadable resources with PowerPoint™ presentations and electronic copies of all supporting material featured in the book.New Employee Orientation Training helps you design new employee orientation programmes at the organizational and department level. This guide will help make the process much easier and help you solve the most common challenges you are likely to face. Contains exercises, handouts, assessments and tools to help you:• rapidly build a customised new employee orientation programme• create both organisation-wide and department-level training• become a more effective and efficient facilitator• ensure training is on target and gets results“This book gives you just what you need to make the most of your company’s new employee orientation programme. If you want to get your employees off to a good start and attract and retain stellar performers, then this is the book to buy.”William J. Rothwell, Professor of HRD, Penn State UniversityKaren Lawson is an international consultant, author and executive coach. She has extensive consulting and workshop experience in the areas of management, team development, communication and quality service across a wide range of industries, including financial services, pharmaceutical, chemical, manufacturing, health care and government.Other books in this series: Leadership Training, Customer Service Training, New Supervisor Training, Leading Change Training.

Strategic planning, collaboration, continual stewardship, best practices, and re-engineering can provide librarians with a toolkit of innovative strategies that meets the worst of economic times with bold, persistent experimentation.This book covers the implications for libraries of a broad range of technological and economic challenges. These challenges include the fallout from the global economic crisis, the positioning of usage statistics, the advent of open access scholarship, database management, responding to budgetary constrictions and general access to serials.Taken as a whole, this collection provides practitioners in the library sector and in higher education with a wide variety of insights on the strengths, weaknesses, threats and opportunities involved with serials collection management in recessionary times, written by academic librarians, vendors, publishers, fundraisers, and higher education professionals.This book was published as a special issue of The Serials Librarian.

A ready-to-use toolkit for delivering high-value training in any scenario The Trainer's Handbook is a comprehensive manual for designing, developing, and delivering effective and engaging training. Based on the feedback of workshop participants, readers, and instructors, this new third edition has been expanded to provide guidance toward new technologies, leadership training, distance learning, blended learning, and other increasingly common issues, with new case studies for each chapter. A systematic approach to training breaks the book into five parts that separately target analysis, design, development, delivery, and evaluation, giving you a comprehensive reference designed for quick look-up and easy navigation. New inventories, worksheets, job aids, checklists, activities, samples, and templates help you bring new ideas into the classroom, and updated instructor guide help you seamlessly integrate new and established methods and techniques. Training is increasingly expanding beyond the traditional instructor-led classroom; courses may now be delivered online or offsite, may be asynchronous and self-led, and may be delivered to individuals, small groups, or entire organizations. This book gives you a one-stop reference and toolkit to help you provide more effective training, regardless of class size, structure, subject, or objective. Explore new training styles adapted to different learning stylesDesign specialized instructional plans for groups, distance learning, and active trainingBlend creativity, logic and design principles to create more effective visualsDevelop strategies for training leaders, training across cultures, and moreEffective training means delivering useful information in a way that's accessible, approachable, understandable, and memorable. The Trainer's Handbook gives you the knowledge and framework you need to provide a high-value experience in any training scenario.

The Trainer’s Workshop Series is designed to be a practical, hands-on roadmap to help you quickly develop training in key business areas. Each book in the series offers all the exercises, handouts, assessments, structured experiences and ready-to-use presentations needed to develop effective training sessions. In addition to easy-to-use icons, each book in the series includes downloadable resources with PowerPoint™ presentations and electronic copies of all supporting material featured in the book.New Employee Orientation Training helps you design new employee orientation programmes at the organizational and department level. This guide will help make the process much easier and help you solve the most common challenges you are likely to face. Contains exercises, handouts, assessments and tools to help you:• rapidly build a customised new employee orientation programme• create both organisation-wide and department-level training• become a more effective and efficient facilitator• ensure training is on target and gets results“This book gives you just what you need to make the most of your company’s new employee orientation programme. If you want to get your employees off to a good start and attract and retain stellar performers, then this is the book to buy.”William J. Rothwell, Professor of HRD, Penn State UniversityKaren Lawson is an international consultant, author and executive coach. She has extensive consulting and workshop experience in the areas of management, team development, communication and quality service across a wide range of industries, including financial services, pharmaceutical, chemical, manufacturing, health care and government.Other books in this series: Leadership Training, Customer Service Training, New Supervisor Training, Leading Change Training.

A well-planned, comprehensive orientation program benefits both organizations and employees.Investing in new employees pays big dividends in performance, retention, and engagement. But does your training program cover the essentials of making new hires feel informed, prepared, and supported? Organization development authority and prominent trainer Karen Lawson has created comprehensive new employee orientation workshops to ensure organizational onboarding is done right for the benefit of all employees, regardless of job level or function.Her two-day, one-day, and half-day agendas include the resources trainers need to deliver practical, interactive sessions. Your workshop will help ensure that new employees integrate smoothly and effectively into their organization and its mission. You’ll also find tools and checklists developed specifically for busy supervisors and managers who conduct orientation in their departments.

Achieve Lifelong Professional SuccessRemaining Relevant is an inspirational playbook for professionals who want to remain relevant, significant, and credible contributors regardless of their age.The book is based on research as well as interviews with over two dozen professional men and women from a variety of industries and disciplines.Chock full of self-assessments, checklists, and activities, Remaining Relevant presents practical and concise tips to help the reader create an action plan for self-development and reinvention. Readers will gain valuable insight to help them remain at the top of their game throughout their lifetime. Chapters address how to…Stay Sharp – Improve mental acuity and cognitive skills.Communicate Clearly – Adapt your communication approach and techniques to today's environment.Stay Connected – Develop and strengthen personal and professional relationships.Update Your Image – Be perceived the way you want to be perceived.Get Physical – Slow down the signs of aging by maintaining a healthy lifestyle.Seek Harmony – Enhance the spiritual, psychological, and emotional aspects of your life.Keep Up with Technology – Develop a working knowledge of platforms, applications, and social media.Reinvent Yourself – Start a new business or change your career.