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Book Bites: John Sanford

Book Bites are quick, five minute looks at a book from readers. Try a new book this week!

Today’s book is from Joe, and he shares his love for Minnesota author John Sandford’s books and characters. Check out the new Virgil Flowers book, Holy Ghost, on sale today!

Want to be a full book group member? Join us on Patreon! For as little as $1 a month, you can support the podcast as well as helping to keep Official Office Dog, Lady Grey, in treats.
We also have new episodes of our leadership podcast: Linking Our Libraries dropping every Thursday morning; subscribe to get it in your app, or stream it on our website.

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Bonus Episode: Reprise of Conferences

It’s time for the Minnesota Libraries Association Annual Conference! So we are posting this reprise to ensure everyone has some helpful tips on attending and presenting at conferences.

Some shameless self-promotion here! We will be presenting at this conference on Thurs Oct 11 at 8:00am: The Basics of Community Engagement: Nailing the Fundamentals so Magic Can Happen! 

On Friday Oct 12 at 10:30 we will be giving this presentation: Leadership is On The Air! Training Through Podcasting!

We would love to see you at either one! And of course, we encourage you to attend this conference, and any other professional conference relevant to your work. It will be worth your time to reach out and make connections, and learn new ideas!
 

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Book Bites: Where’d You Go, Bernadette

Book Bites are quick, five minute looks at a book from readers. Try a new book this week!

Today’s book is from Angie: Where’d You Go, Bernadette, by Maria Semple.

Want to be a full book group member? Join us on Patreon! For as little as $1 a month, you can support the podcast as well as helping to keep Official Office Dog, Lady Grey, in treats.
 
We also have new episodes of our leadership podcast: Linking Our Libraries dropping every Thursday morning; subscribe to get it in your app, or stream it on our website.

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Episode 405 Creativity

Welcome back to Linking Our Libraries! This week we are going to talk about Creativity in the workplace.

 Check out our full show notes page here.

We are the Central Minnesota Libraries Exchange, and we are here to chat with you this season about building your leadership skills. We provide support and training for all types of libraries, and our work can be used by anyone who wants to build skills, and to become a better leader in your own organization.

 

Creativity in the workplace is such a great skill to develop! In any organization, the way work was done five years ago, a year ago, or potentially even yesterday, is just not good enough anymore. Society changes pretty quickly, and we need to not only keep up but to be out front providing leadership. The horrifying phrase “…but we’ve always done it that way…” probably means things need to change. 

But you may be slightly panicking here. Maybe you don’t know how to sing, dance, draw, or paint – so you think you are not creative. Don’t worry! Creativity at work does not require any of these skills – though if you do have them, feel free to incorporate them into you work.

 

Instead we define creativity in the workplace as seeing different ways to accomplish goals, and bringing forward new ideas. Anyone can do this!

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Book Bites: Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far On Foot

Book Bites are quick, five minute looks at a book from readers. Try a new book this week!

Today’s book is from Mary, and is Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far On Foot, by John Callahan.

Want to be a full book group member? Join us on Patreon! For as little as $1 a month, you can support the podcast as well as helping to keep Official Office Dog, Lady Grey, in treats.
 
We also have new episodes of our leadership podcast: Linking Our Libraries dropping every Thursday morning; subscribe to get it in your app, or stream it on our website.

Check out this episode!