Leadership, Management and Organizational Development

Panel

Challenges of Managing Inter-generational staff: who does it best, Baby Boomers, Generation X or Millennials?

Panel Organizer(s)

• EH

  Eboni Henry

  Branch Manager
  DC Public Library

Panel Presenter(s)

• JS

  Jahala Simuel

  Head of Access Services/Medical Librarian
  Howard University- Louis Stokes Health Sciences Library
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  Raymond Pun, MLS, MA

  Instruction & Research Librarian
  Alder Graduate School of Education
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  Sara Dallas, MLS

  Director
  Southern Adirondack Library System

Eboni M. Henry, Branch manager at the DC Public Library, Jahala Simuel, Head of Access Services/Medical Library at Howard University, Ray Pun, Academic Librarian in Research and Technology Services, California State University and Sara Dallas, Director, Southern Adirondack Library System will discuss their experiences with working with an inter-generational staff in this day and age of technology. Best practices for cross training, mediation , corrective action and reinforcement, and working with Union and Non-Union staff. Attendees will gain practical skills and a deeper understanding on how to manage intergenerational staff. Learn to evaluate current methods of communication among library staff and make the necessary changes if necessary. Attendees will learn to construct ways to have staff work as a team to provide library services to the community.

 

Learning Objectives:

• Attendees will understand the kind of institutional change needed and how to do it
• Identify what needs to be done, and bring it back to their library
• Change how they supervise or communicate with colleagues and supervisors