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 currently the Director of Technology for Do Space in Omaha, NE. Michael has been training librarians in technology for the past twenty years and has also been a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, serials cataloger, technology consultant, and bookseller since earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany’s School of Information Science and Policy. Michael has also written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and his fourteenth book, Emerging Technologies: A Primer for Librarians (w/ Jennifer Koerber) was published in May 2015 and more books are on the way. In his spare time he blogs at travelinlibrarian.info, runs The Collector’s Guide to Dean Koontz Web site, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
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