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Webinar Viewing: Tools for Tense Situations – Reducing Conflicts with Patrons as Libraries Return to the New Normal

February 23, 2021 @ 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm EST

**This is a viewing of a previously recorded webinar.**

Webinar Description:

As libraries re-open their doors to provide service to patrons, we’re all facing uncertainty, apprehension, and stress. This 90-minute webinar session will provide library directors, managers, supervisors, and full and part-time employees with tools to recognize and resolve conflicts between arriving patrons. Getting along in our new post-Pandemic, post-protests world will require patience, empathy, and understanding other points of view without judgment. Library employees and the people we serve will have strong feelings about the current political and economic climate. It’s easy to let emotions get in the way of providing good service. Here are the topics this webinar will cover:

  • What are the challenges we face as we return from a Work From Home status to back to working in and around our library buildings?
  • What safety and security challenges do we face in the wake of more national and local protests in our parks, public spaces, and government buildings?
  • How can managers and supervisors monitor the work culture for conflict, communication, and morale issues?
  • Can supervisors use a step-by-step conflict resolution tool to use to help two disagreeing employees to get along?;
  • How to respectfully request that patrons and other library visitors (vendors, delivery, maintenance, janitorial providers) follow Covid-19 safety protocols;
  • How do we agree to disagree and have patience and empathy for our patrons or co-workers who have strong feelings about national issues that differ from ours?;
  • What safety and security protocols do we need to follow, coming and going and while working in publicly-accessed buildings?;
  • How about a little personal and professional stress management?;
  • What does the future hold for library employees and what new ways can we provide service to patrons?

About the Presenter:

As a trainer, speaker, author, and consultant, Dr. Steve Albrecht is internationally known for his expertise in high-risk HR issues. He specializes in workplace and school violence awareness and crisis response programs for private-sector firms, municipal and state government, K-12 schools, and colleges and universities. His clients include the two biggest municipal insurers in California.

In 1994, Dr. Albrecht co-wrote Ticking Bombs: Defusing Violence in the Workplace, one of the first business books on workplace violence. Besides his work as a conference presenter and keynote speaker, he appears in the media and on the Internet, as a source on workplace violence, security, and crime. His 21 business and police books include Library Security; Tough Training Topics; Added Value Negotiating; Service, Service, Service!; and Fear and Violence on the Job.

He holds a doctoral degree in Business Administration (D.B.A.), an M.A. in Security Management, a B.A. in English, and a B.S. in Psychology. He is board-certified in HR, security management, employee coaching, and threat assessment.

Register via Zoom

**All participants will have the option to request a certificate of attendance for one and a half contact hours.**

All CLRC events are open to CLRC members and members of the Empire State Library Network.

 

Details

Date:
February 23, 2021
Time:
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm EST
Event Categories:
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Website:
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_AyRGnZP5T7y89ftdAuEwdA

Organizer

Rebecca Kluberdanz Honsinger
Phone
315-446-5446
Email
rhonsinger@clrc.org
View Organizer Website

Venue

Online Via Zoom
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