Managing relationships: pulling it all together by Jamie LaRue
We have now briefly considered 5 relationships: with boss, with staff, with community, with profession, and with self. What’s next?
Most people find that some of these are easier than others, whether because that’s just a natural strength, or because one of those relationships happens to be characterized by unusually pleasant or easy-going people.
But most of us tend to get swallowed up in whatever relationship dimension has something exciting going on. Then, we get blindsided by the one we weren’t watching. The questions then become:
How do you assess the strength or health of your current relationships? How do you “fix” the relationship that’s going awry? How do you devise a system to regularly scan the relationships, so that you are not blindsided?
Michael Sauers is the Director of Logan Library in Logan, UT. Prior to this he was one of the founding staff and Technology Manager for Do Space in Omaha, NE. After earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany's School of Information Science and Policy Michael spent his first 20 years as a librarian training other librarians in technology along with time as a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, a technology consultant, and a bookseller. He has written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and has published 14 books ranging from library technology, blogging, Web design, and an index to a popular horror magazine. In his spare time, he blogs at TravelinLibrarian.info, runs The Collector's Guide to Dean Koontz website at CollectingKoontz.com, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
Unless otherwise stated, all opinions are my own and are not to be considered those of the City of Logan, UT.
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