Wednesday 16 March 2011

MAXIMISING HUMAN CAPITAL presented by John Moalusi

In this session again we were with John who took us through the BGT model of developing strategies for human capital management. He further indicated the legislations to take into account when dealing with the issues of human resources.

What I have learned in this is that human capital is the most important capital in the organisation because there are the assets of the organisation. Customers buy the skills and knowledge that resides in employees. Losing the skills will mean losing the customers who are the life blood of any organisation.

what I will apply in the work situation is to make sure that there is not even a single skill is centralised in one employee because it can affect client loyalty if that person resign or even die with the skills. The best way to do this will be to encourage team work, sharing of knowledge and rotation of responsibilities.

Tuesday 15 Marsh 2011

ORGANIZATIONAL LEADERSHIP bridging the gap by John Moalusi

John is a good presenter who keeps his audience awake every time. He first took us through the dimension of leadership and then gave us a description of what is the great leader.

 Who collect followers, but the one who influence the followers to voluntarily and passionately direct their efforts towards achieving a common goal. This was a powerful statement for me and I will apply this theory in the work place and in my social life and my family.

He further explored the characteristics of a leader and leadership styles. In this the biggest lesson was the dimensional model of leadership behaviour whish though me various ways in which leaders direct reports.

Monday the 14th of March 2011

 SETTTING THE SOUTH AFRICAN LIS IN CONTEXT by John Tsebe

In this session the presenter was very vocal in terms of the legislations governing the LIS profession. Although it was not as interesting as the other sessions, but its significance was well spelt and presented well.

I have learn that as we busy working in the profession, there are people in the background putting the views of librarians on the agenda of the decision makers and policy makers. As the leader of tomorrow it will be my drive to make sure that one does not concentrate in the place you work in but look at the holistic view of the profession and be vocal about it. In this session I became aware of the acts and legislations that one will always revert to when the going get tough with the decision makers.

LEADIND LIASA AND LIASA LEADING THE PROFESION by Naomi Haasbroek

In this Session Naomi has changed my view of LIASA as an organisation. She made me realised that LIASA is no longer the organisation I experienced in Limpopo the other day. Now I know there is a lot that the organisation is doing and I can be part of the development

What I intent to do differently am to joint LIASA and be the change I will like to see. There is a lot that I can contribute in the development of the organisation and the profession in general.

THE NEXT GENERATION LIBRARIANS ... HOW WILL WE LOOK by Prof Theo Bothma

Prof Bothman opens another view of librarianship in this session. He touches a lot of reviewing the way we librarians provide service to our user. He made us realised that technology is impacting on the way our users would look for information. If we want to keep up to date we will need to study the trends in information provision.

What I thing i will do in my workplace is to try to focus the way we can use web 2.0 technologies and way it can help us to better serve our user. I lent that technology is there, and is not there to haunt us, but is there to help us.

THE PRACTICING NEXT GENERATION LIBRARIAN ... CREATIVE, THINKING OUSIDE THE BOX, ENGAGING WITH THE COMMUNITY by Rene Schoombee. 

Except the comedy to be honest I have not learn much in this session. Maybe if I was from the school library I would have understood buy really I did not have a clue.

CAMPBELL LEADERSHIP DESCRIPTER TOOL by Ujala Satgoor

This session was supposed to be done on 13th. The tool was well presented and I learn that even the leader I regard as good leader are not good at all the aspect of leadership. There will always be some areas of development. I also realised that even leaders I regard as bad leaders are doing very good in certain aspects. One needs to identify the gaps and develop on them.

GROUP DINAMICS SIMULATION GAME by Ujala Satgoor

PAMOJA is a rather a tricky game were one is taken out of your normal working routine and act in another job. With this game one tern to realise that moving from one territory to another can be very challenging.

I learnt that various terms have unique rules, cultures and customs. Respecting that is the only way one will have to get acceptance to the team. This will be very important in the work situation especially when one has to apply for sponsorships from other unfamiliar countries.

Sunday the 13th of March 2011

Hermann Brain Dominance Descriptor Tool (HBDI) presented by Ann de Boer.

This is the very powerful tool. The presenter was very good. Her energy is amazing. In the session I learned more about the way I think and that I have to consider the way other people think as well. There are variations in the way people thing and the more we accept that the better it we will get to a very rich outcome.

This will help me a lot in the workplace because I realised that there are some thinking skills that I will need to develop if I want to improve my leadership skills. I have learnt that, the good leader is the one who has a balance of A, B, C and D quadrant. Although I the test indicated a balance of all quadrants, but I personally know that I need to improve on my organising skills.

I will really recommend the HBDI test to many of my colleagues and subordinates because one tent to realise the difference in the way we think.

Saturday the 12th of March 2011

We 2.0 technologies in the workplace

The presenters (Janice deWee and Antoinette Lourens) were both very good at their presentations and I like their presentation skills.
What I have learnt from the session is that I can use web 2.0 technologies in the library setting to communication and promote library collections and services to the clients. Social networks like Facebook and Twitter are very popular and students and lecturers can be easily reached there.

Arival: Friday the 11 of March 2011

We Arived at 14: 30 pm at Malte and the registration began. Ujala Satgoor who is the program diretor welcome all of us and introduse the program. Apart from knowing of the hardwork ahead of us, we were all glad that we will not be sharing the rooms.

4th Carnegie Library Leadership Academy 11 - 25 March 2011

The fouth academy took place in The Villlas Luxury Suit Hotel & Coference Centre from the 11 to the 25 of March 2011.
The Principles are:

• Broadening one's horizons.
• Self awareness
• Acknowledgement of diversity
• Networking
• Sharing and/or exchange of expertise and skills
• Joint responsibility
• Fun

The Äcademy was hosted and organised by the University of Pretoria's Centre for African Library Leadership in the Department of Library Services.