Whew!

In Season Four, we have all worked together to work through fifteen of the most valuable competencies you need to be a good leader in your organization. As we said all along: it doesn’t matter what your title is, you can lead from any position. So these skills are for EVERYONE! Refer back to our shownotes for any info you missed – and of course for links to the books we shared!

We are taking a break here, and starting up our companion podcast: Reading With Libraries. Season Three starts Thursday Jan. 3. You can subscribe at any podcast app you are already using (like this one!). Each week we explore a new genre, drink new beverages, and chat with new Guest Hosts about the books they like. We have lots of Readers Advisory material on the website, to help you in guiding people to the books they may love.

But we don’t want your feed here to be lonely, so we will be dropping a quick Book Bite into it each week. This is a five minute look, by a Guest Host, at a book (or two) they have enjoyed and want to share with you. There are all kinds of genres, all kinds of suggestions – everything you need to find books for yourself, or to share with patrons and friends.

And what’s happening with Linking Our Libraries?? We have so many fun plans!! Season Five will be back, exploring all kinds of library skill using pop culture. It will be fast, fun, and filled with great ideas for you and your library! We definitely want you to join us there!

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Welcome back to Linking Our Libraries! This is our Season Four finale! It’s been so good to work with you all this season, and talk about building skills.

Check out our full shownotes page for all the information, and the info on the books we read (with links to Amazon!).

Be sure to subscribe to our book group podcast, Reading With Libraries, which will start dropping new episodes and new genres Jan 3. If you are subscribed to this podcast, Linking Our Libraries, we will be dropping Book Bites each week for you – three to five minutes talking about a book our guests want to share. You won’t want to miss it!

Do you want to talk with us about leadership skills? Do you need some training organized for your organization? We are here for you! Check out our website: cmle.org and let’s get this started!

We have talked about a lot of important skills this season – and some different ways to be a leader, not just as a n idea but in reality. Problems solving is definitely one of the keys to leadership success. And fortunately, you will have a LOT of practice in it!

Problems, disasters, things going wrong – all of that will happen in your library daily, weekly, the entire rest of your career. So it’s better to just get in there now and figure out how to be good at solving problems. It will make the rest of your career easier, and it will help to inspire other people to work with you.

You can probably think of people who panic in a crisis, or have no idea how to handle even the smallest problem that occurs – completely falling apart at the smallest problem. This is not leadership behavior, though we all know people in leadership roles who do this – but we want you to be better than that!

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