Staffing for Results: A Guide to Working Smarter

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Overview

The latest entry in the PLA Results series, "Staffing for Results: A Guide to Working Smarter" will help you answer key questions you have related to the output and performance of your staff. By analyzing in a systematic way, how long work activities take and then assigning steps to each unit of work, you will have a quantifiable measure of the staff output. "Staffing for Results" walks you through the process of measuring work, identifying best practices, assigning costs to each activity, analyzing resource allocation, and communicating results.

In this one-day workshop, the coauthors of the book, Diane Mayo and Jeanne Goodrich, will provide library managers and human resources managers information on how best to use the book's figures and work forms in your library to ensure that your library is optimizing its resources. You'll be able to answer questions like: Who is doing the work? How long does it take? Is this the best use of people available? Do we need more staff? and others.

About the Presenters

Jeanne Goodrich is a consultant and trainer who specializes in public library planning, job analysis, and data collection and analysis. Former Deputy Director of the Multnomah County (Oreg.) Library, Goodrich has more than thirty years of management experience in public libraries of varying sizes and in a state library agency.

Diane Mayo is vice-president of Information Partners, Inc., an information technology and library automation and management consulting firm specializing in assisting libraries with planning and implementing a wide range of technologies, and has more than twenty years of experience as a librarian. She is co-author of "Wired for the Future" (ALA, 1999) and "Managing for Results" (ALA, 2000).

Workshop Location

Swissotel Boston
One Avenue de Lafayette
Boston MA 02111
617-451-2600

Target Audience

This Workshop is appropriate for library managers and trustees.

Housing

PLA has reserved a block of sleeping rooms at the Swissotel Boston at a rate of $179 single/double room, plus tax.
To make your hotel reservation call 800-733-SWISS
For more information about the Swissotel Boston check out www.swissotel.com

For More Information

Call the PLA office at 800-545-2433, ext. 5PLA between 8:30 am and 4:30 pm (CST), Monday - Friday, or email pla@ala.org