Today I went to a CILIP course on 'Moving into management' given by Beryl Morris of
Hudson Rivers Training. (Beryl's going to be at the
CILIP East of England event on Tuesday 16th November - I thought she was a great course leader, so I'd encourage you to come along if you haven't already booked.) I found it a really useful and productive day - quite different to the rather lacklustre and uninspiring management lectures I remember from library school.
A couple of things made a particular impression on me:
1) Right at the beginning of the day, Beryl commented that 'even if you don't have the official label of 'manager', you still have to manage relationships with people - colleagues, suppliers, customers, on so on'. I don't have to much management in my current role, but, yes, I do have to deal with people, and it's useful to have structured ways in which to think about how to do that better.
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2) One of the major themes of the course was motivation. We did an exercise to investigate how different people's motivating factors are all different (take home message - get to know the people you're managing!). Out of a list of 16 factors, only 'holidays/perks' wasn't chosen by anyone present as being in their top-four.
My top four were staff development and training, creative work, direction/clarity/structure, and recognition, and it was a honest surprise to find such a variation in a room of twenty people. So, dear reader what four would you choose? (Would you add something else entirely?)
