Program Type:
Online CourseProgram Description
Event Details
Two-week course | April 2 - April 9, 2025 | Live sessions on Wednesday April 2 & 9 @ 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
Learn kindness practices to build trust with your team and transform your management style.
This online course is designed to help library managers and leaders understand the critical difference between being kind and being nice. While niceness often involves surface-level pleasantries, kindness is rooted in genuine care and constructive actions that benefit the team and the organization. Being a kind people-manager includes using clear and direct communication, setting expectations and boundaries, and resolving conflict with empathy. This course provides theoretical insights, practical strategies, and reflective exercises to develop leadership skills that prioritize kindness and foster a more supportive and effective work environment.
Learning Outcomes
After you attend this course, you’ll be able to:
- Understand the distinct impacts of kindness and niceness on leadership
- Recognize the benefits of kind management for team dynamics and organizational culture
- Develop skills in empathetic communication, conflict resolution, and constructive feedback
- Implement strategies to create a supportive and growth-oriented work environment
- Engage in continuous reflection and improvement of management practices
- Build resilience and navigate leadership challenges with a focus on kindness
Who should take this course?
This course is geared toward anyone who supervises staff.
Course Features
This will be a 2-week online course and will include:
- Live sessions: Guest speaker presentations by leaders in their field. (All sessions are recorded for on demand access for six months after the course ends.)
- Facilitated discussions: Audience participation in Q&A and discussion with guest speakers.
- Asynchronous workshop: Project-based weekly assignments to connect what you’re learning to your professional life. Includes written feedback from an expert in the field who functions as the workshop facilitator, as well as peer conversation via discussion forums. Workshop available for all multi-week courses plus half-day courses where indicated.
- Early access on-demand resources: Access to a series of past live session archives from Library Journal and School Library Journal courses to explore at your own pace.
- Online Classroom: The virtual learning platform that holds all course content and is accessible for six months after the course ends.
Expected time commitment
If you attend or watch the recordings of all live sessions, you'll spend approximately 4 hours on this course. You'll earn 4 hours of PD credit and a Library Journal certificate of completion.
CALL Training Partner for this Event: Library Journal
Additional Information
Enrollment Statement
I understand that a space will be reserved for me in this learning opportunity at a cost to CALL, and if I am unable to attend this learning opportunity, I will cancel my enrollment as soon as possible and before the start date.