SLA WCC

in conjunction with SLAIS and SLA@SLAIS

presents

Skills for Success in Your Career

Wednesday, May 14 & Thursday, May 15

Ulla de Stricker is in Vancouver for a series of informative and practical sessions. If you’ve ever attended one of Ulla’s presentations, you already know what an engaging and inspiring speaker she is…if you haven’t then you’re in for a real treat. Please join us for one or more of the following sessions; we believe there’s something for everyone.

PROGRAM DETAILS

Session 1:

Wednesday, May 14
12:00 noon - 1:30pm
SLAIS (UBC campus)
Exact location TBA

This session is free and is sponsored by SLAIS; light refreshments will be provided.

Ulla de Stricker comments on the skills – and they are not the technical competencies that might come to mind at first – that make for achievement in the “real world” of working in the range of public and private organizations. She provides suggestions on areas in which a bit of savvy is handy when it comes to developing a career.

Starting with the not-so-simple matter of becoming aware of one’s own strengths and work environment preferences, a successful career demands interpersonal finesse, negotiation skills, team leadership, an understanding of organizational psychology and process, and more. These all add up to what is sometimes referred to as “people skills”. In particular, the information profession requires a solid dose of outreach, client relationship building, and marketing – areas of endeavour some regard with a measure of trepidation.

Ulla’s message is “fear not - everyone can learn to navigate the workplace and to contribute to succeed in the work environment.”

Session 2:

Wednesday May 14
5:00 – 8:00pm
Pacific Room
The Sandman Hotel
180 West Georgia Street
Vancouver

This session requires an email RSVP and paid registration, see below.

WHAT IS IT LIKE TO WORK HERE? BUILDING POSITIVE AND PRODUCTIVE STAFF AND TEAM RELATIONS: Simple principles for leaders and team members to foster a supportive work environment

Drawing on many years of observations in numerous library and other information intensive workplaces, Ulla comments on key approaches and techniques everyone can apply to help create an environment where employees look forward to coming to work. Good communication, collaboration, and interpersonal practices are common sense yet still may need conscious attention or permission. Enthusiastic reactions to previous presentations on the general topic of workplace relations indicate that attendees may take away pointers to apply on the job immediately … and for the rest of their careers.

There will be a cash bar, and light refreshments will be provided.

Session 3:

Thursday May 15
5:00 – 8:00pm
Pacific Room
The Sandman Hotel
180 West Georgia Street
Vancouver

This session requires an email RSVP and paid registration, see below.

HUNCHES AND LUNCHES - USING THE INFORMATION/KNOWLEDGE AUDIT TO UNDERSTAND INFORMATION CULTURE: How does culture influence day to day practices – and hence our strategies and services?

To succeed in our roles as information professionals supporting knowledge workers, we need to understand how the organization’s information culture drives their information, records, and knowledge related behaviours – and once we do, we are in a better position to devise services and outreach activities adapted to such a culture. Ulla outlines the steps in a discovery process to uncover the true underlying culture and current practices, and provides tips on recommended techniques.

There will be a cash bar and light refreshments will be provided.

SPEAKER

Ulla de Stricker MA, MLS.

Through a successful career holding senior positions in the information industry, Ulla developed extensive expertise in knowledge and information management. She established her consulting practice in 1992 and leverages her experience to assist a wide range of clients in strategic planning projects. An accomplished public speaker, Ulla is a frequent contributor to the professional literature and to conferences. An active member of Special Libraries Association, she is the Careers Chair for its Toronto Chapter and was 2007 Chair of its Leadership and Management Division. In the Association of Independent Information Professionals, she is active in membership services areas. Ulla is the author of “Is Consulting for You?” (ALA, 2007), and the forthcoming “Business Cases for Information Professionals” (Information Today, May 2008).

REGISTRATION

To pay by cheque, please complete the online registration form <http://www.sla.org/chapter/cwcn/programs/regform2004.htm> and mail it (as soon as you can), with your payment (cheque made out to SLA WCC), to:

Lesley Perkins
Canada Border Services Agency

Pacific Region Enforcement Centre
700- 300 West Georgia Street
Vancouver, BC
V6B 6C8

To pay by credit card, select the appropriate category to below.

FEES

For SLA members, students, and those between jobs

$28 for one evening session (please note the evening in the Comments field)

or $45 if you register and pay for both evening sessions at once

For non-members

$35 for one evening session (please note the evening in the Comments field)

or $55 if you register and pay for both evening sessions at once

RSVP for evening session(s)

Please send an email to Lesley.perkins@cbsa-asfc.gc.ca indicating which session you’re attending, or that you’re attending both sessions, and whether or not you are an SLA member. This will help to ensure we have sufficient space and refreshments for everyone. Thank you!

VENUE

For daytime session May 14: School of Library, Archival and Information Studies, UBC (exact location TBA)

For evening sessions, May 14 & 15: The Sandman Hotel, 180 West Georgia Street, Vancouver (between Cambie & Hamilton)

Thank you to our sponsor FPInfomart for generously supporting the evening sessions.