[Eril-l] Best of Core Forum: Onboarding with Cultural Humility and Appreciative Inquiry

Wed Mar 27 05:00:00 PDT 2024

*Cross posted to multiple lists*

Best of Core Forum: Onboarding with Cultural Humility and Appreciative
Inquiry

Date: Wednesday, April 17, 2024

All webinars are one hour in length and begin at 11 am Pacific, noon
Mountain, 1 pm Central, and 2 pm Eastern time.

Description: Onboarding is a term that conjures up checklists and
logistical tasks, such as filling out paperwork, attending training
sessions, and getting added to listservs. For both new employees and their
managers, however, there are also significant affective elements, including
navigating organizational practices, cultural norms, and interpersonal
relationships. These play an important role in shaping the new employee’s
professional path and sense of belonging in the organization. While many
new employees experience the tension of internal and/or external
expectations to both stand out for their potential and blend into the
existing organizational culture, this tension can be particularly
challenging for individuals who are underrepresented or not represented at
all in the organization.

The presenters, both in leadership positions, have recently been on both
sides of the onboarding process and will share their ideas for
incorporating the concepts of cultural humility and appreciative inquiry
with the twofold goal of cultivating more inclusive and person-centered
experiences for new employees and transforming the traditional onboarding
process into an opportunity for organizational reflection and growth.

Learning outcomes:

At the end of the webinar, attendees will be able to:

   -

   Identify affective elements involved in onboarding experiences
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   Explore how person-centered and reflective approaches to onboarding
   could create more inclusive academic library environments
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   Discuss how the concepts of cultural humility and appreciative inquiry
   (CHAI) can enhance onboarding experiences

Who should attend?

Administrators, supervisors, and any library workers interested in
onboarding, with or without prior experience in the topic.

Presenters:

Beate Gersch is the Assistant Dean for Student and Research Success at Kent
State University Libraries. Her M.A. in American Studies from the Freie
Universität Berlin led her to pursue her Ph.D. in Media Studies at the
University of Oregon and making a permanent home in the U.S. After teaching
and researching in the areas of media studies and intercultural
communication for a number of years, Beate discovered that librarianship
was a perfect path to put information literacy into practice and not grade
student papers on a weekly basis. She received her M.L.I.S. from Kent State
University and went off to become a Coordinator for Library Instruction at
the University of Akron and Head of Liaison & Orientation Services at
Harvard Library. Before serving as assistant dean, Beate has held various
positions, from staff to adjunct professor, tenured associate professor and
visiting instructor. As a manager and administrator she remains curious
about organizational culture and communication and strives to do her part
in improving those every day.

Anna Sandelli is an Associate Professor and Head of Teaching and Learning
Programs at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville Libraries, where she
leads a department focused on student success, information literacy, user
experience, and online pedagogy. Her roles and interests have included
enhancing student-created learning communities, coordinating the libraries’
student advisory committee, ethnographic research, and teaching for-credit
courses and workshop-based sessions for first-year, transfer, graduate
student, and faculty populations in synchronous and asynchronous settings.
She enjoys engaging with campus partners to advance innovative teaching and
experiential learning and is currently serving as a University Honors
Faculty Fellow, where she is working with team charged with re-envisioning
UTK’s Undergraduate Honors curriculum. Anna is a co-founder of the Library
Writing Cooperative, a group designed to help librarians share their work
and ideas across the profession, and she has been recognized as an American
Library Association Emerging Leader

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Registration fees for webinar:  Core Member $57.67; ALA member: $71.10;
Non-member $79.00

For additional information and access to registration links, please go to
the following website:

https://elearning.ala.org/local/catalog/view/product.php?productid=1090

Core webinars are recorded and registrants receive a link to the recording
shortly following the live event.

For questions about registration, contact ALA Registration by calling
1-800-545-2433 and press 5 or email registration at ala.org.

For all other questions or comments related to Core webinars, please
contact Core CE staff at corece at ala.org.

*Posted on behalf of the Core Continuing Education Committee.*

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