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Wisdom Wednesday – How To Identify Poor Leaders

@bringleadershiptolife Identifying a bad leader in your workplace.. #workplace #leadershiptiktok #leadershiptraining ? original sound – Greg Zimbulis – Greg Zimbulis

Posted 30 October 2024 § Jobs § Library § Wisdom Wednesday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Wisdom Wednesday – Why Your Performance Review Doesn’t Matter

@jimchuong ? original sound – The Lazy Canadian Investor

Posted 23 October 2024 § Jobs § Library § Wisdom Wednesday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

There Is A Constant Battle Within Public Libraries Between Our Core Values of Belief In Freedom of Expression and Belief in Diversity/Inclusion

Posted without further comment.  (Er, other than to say you can fast forward to the end to see the conflict of those values in action…) (h/t to concerned community member who sent this to me.  It’s actually senior RPL managers speaking off-camera at the end, not RPL security guards.)

Posted 22 October 2024 § Canada § Censorship § Jobs § Library § LibrarySchool § News § Politics § Sad § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

Wisdom Wednesday – Personality Hires Are More Important Than any Type of Hire

@dxnielbennett coming from a personality hire #hiring #corporatelife #work ? original sound – Daniel Bennett

Posted 16 October 2024 § Jobs § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Wisdom Wednesday – Trust Is More Important Than Performance

“We have a million metrics to measure performance but little to none to measure trustworthiness.” @simonsinek Promote the trustworthy, not just the high-performing. Is your team built on trust? ? #NavySEALs #LeadershipLessons ? original sound – Simon Sinek

Posted 09 October 2024 § Jobs § Wisdom Wednesday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Wisdom Wednesday – Counter Intuitive Leadership Principles

A long time ago, a senior leader at RPL told me “I know you like tech companies but libraries aren’t like those companies.  We do things differently.” I wasn’t advocating for trampolines in the hallways and personal chefs in the lunch room but I did wonder “Why” that person ruled out trying some different innovative […]

Posted 25 September 2024 § Jobs § List § Wisdom Wednesday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Wisdom Wednesday – How To Start Every Work Meeting…

@adamfrith_ Amen ? #animation #funny #foryou #fyp ? original sound – Dustin Nickerson

Posted 18 September 2024 § Humour § Jobs § Wisdom Wednesday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Happy Appointversary To Me

My first day at RPL was September 8, 2008 but I never realised I was officially appointed to the position on September 5, 2008 so happy 16th appointversary to me!

Posted 05 September 2024 § Jobs § Library § MemoryLane § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Wisdom Wednesday – I’m Such A Team Player, I Really Enjoy My Job, And I Respect My Colleagues. But also…

…I cling madly to those studies that show swearing in a sign of higher-than-average intelligence! 😉 @the_mole_bag ????? #CapCut #meme #schittscreek #pov #workhumour #relatable #foryou #foryoupage #fyp #jokesss ? original sound – Nintendo – Nintendo  

Posted 04 September 2024 § Humour § Wisdom § Wisdom Wednesday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Wisdom Wednesday – Who Could’ve Predicted Sick Time Would Increase Coming Out of a Worldwide Pandemic?!?

This may be a record as I’ve been collecting information and reading about and adding info to the ongoing draft of this blog post, for oh, over two years. I’ve been doing this, basically ever since society collectively decided that Covid was over and that we’d all stop masking, stop most precautions, and start acting […]

Posted 28 August 2024 § Jobs § MemoryLane § News § Politics § Wisdom Wednesday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , ,