Who Should Attend
This multi-day program, designed to provide you with the skills and ability to stand out as a leader and start making a difference, is intended for information professionals at all levels of management experience.
Specifically, the program is designed for:
- Information professionals with at least 3 years of work experience and some level of responsibility for managing people.
- Professionals who want to develop their leadership and management skills while building lasting professional and personal relationships with colleagues in the information professional community.
Highlights of the Summit
Unparalleled learning and networking: You'll get the complete leadership learning experience through instruction, hands-on learning, and peer networking. Each session is designed to guide you through the maze of leadership development so that you can learn from others, from yourself, and from the environment of the Summit, so that you can draw your own conclusions about leadership.
High quality speakers and facilitators: The SLA Leadership Summit places a strong emphasis on expertise in the guidance of participants. Keynote speakers are carefully selected by a panel of information professionals. Facilitators are proven leaders in the profession, and have demonstrated success at multiple levels of career and SLA volunteerism.
For Emerging Leaders
- Discover the language of leadership
- Explore the nature of leaders, and recognize the leader in you
- Develop reasons why people should follow you
- Identify the nature of challenges faced individually and collectively by leaders
- Prepare for lifelong growth in leadership
For Mid-Career Leaders
- Learn how to build alliances that deliver value for everyone
- Discuss leadership by example
- Explore consensus building and its return for you
- Examine leadership from the middle – and managing upward or laterally
- Assess expertise-based vs. service-based leadership
For Experienced Leaders
- Practice leadership when getting no leadership from above
- Examine leadership in an uncertain, undefined environment
- Explore the use of leadership principles to restore confidence
- Learn to generate diverse opinions and question people supportively
- Discuss being comfortable in uncomfortable times
- Discover strategies for managing conflict
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