Effective Library Leadership Strategies for Reducing Staff Stress and Trauma

This interactive workshop is designed for participants who are in supervisory or management positions in their libraries. This workshop is divided into two parts:

Part One- Library leadership strategies for reducing avoidable staff stress and trauma, including:
-Organizational approaches for creating a “culture of care” and a psychologically safe environment
-Strategies for assisting staff with managing and reducing customer behavioral challenges
-Supporting “sustainable practice,” which means creating a supportive workplace that emphasizes and embeds self-care and community-care strategies throughout the organization to support staff retention, job satisfaction, and overall well-being

Part Two- Library leadership strategies for responding to unavoidable staff stress and trauma, including:
-Implementing “reflective practice” strategies throughout your library
-Creating crisis response plans for psychological emergencies
-Supporting staff after a crisis

Participants will walk away with a preliminary plan for steps they can take to improve responses to staff stress and trauma in their own libraries.