Series Editor's introduction

Introduction

SECTION 1: THEORIES

1. Understanding how People Behave, Learn and Develop

2. KOLB Learning Cycle and Styles

3. Honey and Mumford – Learning Styles

4 . VAK Learning Styles

5. MBTI® – Myers Briggs® Type Indicator

6. Jigsaw Discovery Tool©

7. The DiSC® Model

8. Benziger Thinking Styles Assessment (BTSA)

9. SDI – Strength Deployment Inventory®

10. Kirkpatrick's four levels of evaluation model

SECTION 2: INFRASTRUCTURE

11. Why Develop Staff?

12. Workforce Planning

13. Job Descriptions

14. Person Specifications

15. Advertisements

16. Shortlisting

17. Interviews

18. Interviews – Presentations and Tests

19. Interviews – Feedback

20. Inductions

21. Managing Performance

22. Team Development Plans

23. Appraisals – Preparing

24. Appraisals – Conducting

25. Setting Objectives

26. One-to-ones

27. Feedback – General

28. Team Building

29. Team Meetings

30. Sharing Learning with the Team

31. Writing References

32. Exit Interviews

33. Effective Handover

SECTION 3: ACTIVITIES AND TOOLS

34. Action Learning Sets

35. Apprentices, Graduate Trainees and Placements

36. Awards

37. Buddying

38. CILIP Qualifications

39. CILIP Qualifications – Re-validation

40. Coaching

41. Collaborative Working

42. Communities of Practice – Internal

43. Communities of Practice – External

44. Conferences – Attending

45. Conferences – Organizing

46. Conferences – Posters

47. Conferences – Presenting

48. Conferences – Sharing the Learning (using blogs, Twitter, articles, presentations to others etc.)

49. Conferences – Volunteering

50. Conferences – Workshops

51. Conferences – Writing Proposals for Papers

52. CVs

53. Exchange of Experience Events, TeachMeets and Unconferences

54. Formal Qualifications

55. Funding for CPD

56. Group Conversations

57. Job Rotation

58. Learning Logs and Journals

59. Meetings – Attending

60. Meetings – Chairing

61. Meetings – Note Taking

62. Mentoring – External

63. Mentoring – Peer

64. Minutes of Madness

65. MOOCS

66. Networks

67. Networks – Setting up

68. Networks – Running

69. Personal Development Plans

70. Presentations – General Tips

71. Professional Membership

72. Projects

73. Project Management Tools

74. Reflection – Facilitating

75. Reflective Practice

76. Reflective Writing

77. Research Activities

78. Secondments

79. Shadowing

80. Social Media

81. SWOT Analysis

82. Time Management

83. Time Management Tools

84. Training Courses – Attending

85. Training Courses – Commissioning

86. Training Courses – Planning, Delivering and Evaluating

87. Twitter

88. Twitter Chats

89. VLEs

90. Visits

91. Volunteering

92. Webinars

93. Writing Blog Posts

94. Writing Business Cases

95. Writing Case Studies

96. Writing Emails

97. Writing Journal Articles

98. Writing Newsletter Articles

99. Writing Procedures

100. Writing Project Plans

101. Writing Reports

Index

Gil Young has worked in the academic, health and public library sectors. She is currently employed as the NHS LKS Workforce Development Manager for the Health Care Libraries Unit North. She is a CILIP Fellow and an associate member of the CIPD. She is also a CILIP mentor and was the first winner of the CILIP mentor of the year award.

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.

Midwest Book Review

I'd highly recommend this book both for first time or seasoned library managers. There is something in there that managers may not have thought of or tips and takeaways that managers could certainly benefit from. I'd equally recommend this book to solo librarians who are interested in career planning and may not have the means or resources to fund CPD. Every library manager should find a spot on their reference shelf for this book.

Health Libraries Group Newsletter (Health Service Executive Ireland National Health Library & Knowledge Service)

Sound advice that will appeal to new managers and mentors of information professionals.

Library Journal

This resource will be useful to librarians wishing to try something new in developing their own careers or their employees' skills and abilities. The book is likely to be most beneficial for middle managers and those who work in human resources or organizational development. This volume's organizational structure lends itself to use as a reference book or on an a-la-carte basis.

Reference & User Services Quarterly (Director of Education and Information Delivery, University of Dayton)

This volume may be helpful to librarians who are very new to the profession, or to potential LIS students who might want to know more about what it's like to work in a library and how library professionals can develop their skills before choosing the profession.

Technical Services Quarterly (Z. Smith Reynolds Library, Wake Forest University)