{"id":1357,"date":"2021-04-28T10:36:46","date_gmt":"2021-04-28T09:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/cpdwl\/?p=1357"},"modified":"2021-04-28T10:36:46","modified_gmt":"2021-04-28T09:36:46","slug":"sill-leadership-training-program-for-public-librarians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/cpdwl\/2021\/04\/28\/sill-leadership-training-program-for-public-librarians\/","title":{"rendered":"SILL: leadership training program for Public librarians"},"content":{"rendered":"

Strengthening Innovative Library Leaders<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0(SILL)<\/strong>\u00a0is a freely foundational leadership training curriculum designed to build leadership and innovation skills for anyone who works in a public library. The training was developed at the Mortenson Center for International Library Programs\u00a0in partnership with librarians around the world from Armenia, Bhutan, Haiti, India, Myanmar, Namibia, and Nepal[1]<\/a>.\u00a0The project is funded by the Global Libraries Program of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation[2]<\/a>.<\/p>\n

SILL was developed to be used by trainers<\/strong> with different levels of training experience and familiarity with the topic.\u00a0It is also designed to be easily adapted to the local library context and translated into different languages.<\/p>\n

The training is divided into 4 interactive modules focusing on Leadership, Innovation, Planning, and Communication, The learning modules are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
<\/td>\n1. Leadership Styles for Librarians<\/strong><\/p>\n

This module will define the concept of \u201cleadership\u201d and introduce Goleman\u2019s 6 styles of leadership.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

<\/td>\n2. Library Leaders as Innovators<\/strong><\/p>\n

This module will introduce library innovation trends, approaches, and strategies.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n3. Library Leaders with a Plan<\/strong><\/p>\n

This module will outline how to create realistic goals and plans<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

<\/td>\n4. Library Leaders as Communicators<\/strong><\/p>\n

Participants will learn about the 4 communication styles and identify the style they use most often. They will also practice communicating with different styles in a work setting.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Photo from SILL website<\/p>\n

In addition, the training components emphasis on less formal lecture and more focus on group activities and discussions, the components include:<\/p>\n

Icebreakers; leaning activities; minis lectures; problem-solving activities; individual handouts and team summaries<\/p>\n

In order to start training you should begin by reading the \u201cGetting Started with SILL<\/a>\u201d\u00a0guide, which contains all of the information you will need.<\/p>\n

This is indeed one of the amazing resources that really deserve to be highlighted and worth seeing as it offers free training program on leadership for all librarians<\/p>\n

References:<\/p>\n

[1]<\/a> https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/cpdwl\/2019\/12\/10\/cpdwl-podcast-project-episode-3\/<\/a><\/p>\n

[2]<\/a>https:\/\/www.library.illinois.edu\/mortenson-leadership\/about\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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Strengthening Innovative Library Leaders\u00a0(SILL)\u00a0is a freely foundational leadership training curriculum designed to build leadership and innovation skills for anyone who works in a public library. The training was developed at the Mortenson Center for International Library Programs\u00a0in partnership with librarians around the world from Armenia, Bhutan, Haiti, India, Myanmar, Namibia, and Nepal[1].\u00a0The project is funded […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1029,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26840,33658,21130,21094,26853],"class_list":["post-1357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-bill-and-melinda-gates-foundation-bmgf","tag-global-libraries-initiatives-gl","tag-leadership","tag-staff-training","tag-strengthening-innovative-library-leaders-sill"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/cpdwl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/cpdwl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/cpdwl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/cpdwl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1029"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/cpdwl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1357"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/cpdwl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1361,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/cpdwl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1357\/revisions\/1361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/cpdwl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/cpdwl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/cpdwl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}