Professional development that doesn’t use a shotgun to hit the mark.
Your staff takes learning seriously. It’s how they keep their skills up-to-date and their minds attuned to new ideas. But courses and workshops can’t take into account your organization’s strengths and weaknesses, its needs, its direction unless they are designed specifically for you. Why should your people risk spending their time learning techniques at which they already excel when they could be moving forward?
We teach courses and workshops on topics that matter; and those courses and workshops can be very valuable experiences. But we also offer clients learning events that, like all our services, are tailored to suit them. We believe that the client-specific approach is the most effective, because we understand that your organization’s identity is an asset it cannot afford to neglect. What works best in one case cannot simply be applied indiscriminately. Contact Dysart & Jones to find out how a half-day session or three-day intensive learning experience can be designed to meet your needs.
Current Conference Presentations
Joint Spring Conference 2013 (Kentucky) – Juanita Richardson
The Art and Science of Win Win Negotiation for Effective Communication
SLA 2012
Transitioning to Leadership & Management (or any new position) – Rebecca Jones
CLA 2012
Strategic Planning: Keep it From Failing - Rebecca Jones & Jim Morgenstern of dmA Planning & Management Services
COLAL Toronto 2011
Top Ten Reasons Information Professionals Succeed
SLA 2011 Annual Conference – Philadelphia
Thinking Strategically & Critically Seeing Possibilities – a course; pdf includes the worksheets
CIL 2011
Thinking Strategically & Critically: Seeing Possibilities by Rebecca Jones
CIL 2011 Thinking Strategically & Critically: Seeing possibilities
Performance Measures: Illustrating Value to Your Community by Rebecca Jones
CIL 2011 Performance Measures: Illustrating Value to Your Community for web
OLA Superconference 2011
Thinking strategically & critically: seeing possibilities
Innovative Approaches in Library Service Delivery
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Internet Librarian 2010
Shifting organizations by Jeff Treziak, McMaster University and Rebecca Jones
Getting to Yes with Decision-Makers by Frank Cervone, Purdue University Calumet and Rebecca Jones
IFLA 2010
Global Online Learning Resources - by Frank Cervone & Jane Dysart
E-system for delivering San Jose Distance Learning Programme - by Cindy Hill
Computers in Libraries 2010
Persuasion, Influence and Innovative Ideas – by Rebecca Jones
Critical Thinking: Getting to the Right Decision – by Rebecca Jones and Deb Wallace
SirsiDynix Institute March 2010
Focus Groups: Perceptions for Planning – by Rebecca Jones
Caslis March 2010
Meaningful Measures: Why Size (& Volume) Don’t Matter - by Rebecca Jones
Meaningful Measures: A Template for Working Through the Process in Your Organization
OLA Superconference 2010
Service Lifecycle Management: Pruning Makes Way for New Services – by Rebecca Jones
Service Lifecycle Management Workbook & Templates – by Rebecca Jones
Digital Strategies with Amanda Etches-Johnson & Daniel Lee -by Rebecca Jones
Conflict Management & Reaching Consensus for OLBA – by Rebecca Jones
Leadership Renewal: Influence & Persuasion – Rebecca Jones, Jane Dysart with Ken Haycock
Internet Librarian 2009
Persuasion & Influence to Move Forward Innovative Ideas - by Rebecca Jones
IFLA 2009
Library & Research Services for Parliaments: Cool Tools – by Jane Dysart
SLA 2009
Critical Thinking - by Rebecca Jones, Mary Lee Kennedy & Deb Wallace of Harvard Business School
THLA 2009
Focus: Urgent or Important? - by Jane Dysart
CASLIS 2009
Meaningful Measures: Why Size Doesn’t Matter! – by Rebecca Jones
Performance Measures Worksheets To Guide Your Conversations – by Rebecca Jones
CIL 2009
Organization 2.0 – a cybertour of good sites to monitor - by Rebecca Jones
OLA Superconference 2009
OLA 2009 Succession Management Worksheets – by Rebecca Jones
OLA 2009 Succession Management: Strategic and Practical – by Rebecca Jones
OLA 2009 Building a Learning Community - by Jane Dysart
SLA 2008 Seattle
Building Bridges, Creating Partnerships - by Rebecca Jones
From Planning to Implementation – by Rebecca Jones and graciously presented by Jane Dysart
OLS-North Conference, May 2008, Sudbury
Learning – by Jane Dysart
Ontario Library Association Superconference 2008
Learning 2.0, Jane Dysart with Stephen Abram — by Jane Dysart
Influencing Without Authority - by Rebecca Jones
CASLIS: Value of Special Libraries Special Conference, Ottawa, 2008
Meaningful Measures: Defining and Pursuing Measures that Matter - by Rebecca Jones
Internet Librarian 2007
Organization 2.0: Organizing People to Work in the 2.0 World - by Rebecca Jones
Netspeed 2007, Calgary, Alberta
— by Jane Dysart
IFLA 2007, Durban, South Africa
Improving the User Experience: Tips &Strategies for Success [Update]
— by Jane Dysart
Canadian Library Association Conference, May 2007
Power Politics — by Jane Dysart & Ingrid Langhammer
Building Capacity for Learning — by Jane Dysart & Stephen Abram
Competencies & Info Pros — by Jane Dysart
Career Strategies for Special Librarians — by Jane Dysart
Québec Library Association – L’Association des bibliothécaires du Québec
Meaningful Measures: Defining & Pursuing Meaningful Measures — by Rebecca Jones
Computers in Libraries 2007
Organization 2.0 — by Rebecca Jones
Computers in Libraries 2007
Accelerated Planning: Not an Oxymoron — by Rebecca Jones
Toronto Area Law Librarians (TALL) 2006
CSI: Competencies, Skills & Insights for the Information Professional
— by Rebecca Jones
IFLA 2006, Seoul, Korea
Improving the User Experience: Tips &Strategies for Success — by Jane Dysart
Improving the User Experience: Tips &Strategies for Success [Update]
— by Jane Dysart
Joint Spring Workshop, DC, April 25, 2006 (DCSLA, DCLA, LLS of DC, FLICC)
Competencies & the Information Professional — by Jane Dysart
Ontario Library Association, Feb 2 – 4, 2006, Toronto
Building Castles in Your Mind: Creative Planning for the Future — by Jane Dysart
Accelerated Planning — by Rebecca Jones
Information Highways, April 5, 2005
Top 10 Reasons Information Professionals Succeed: Business Practices for Fuiling the Fire — by Rebecca Jones
SLA, Boston Chapter, March 23, 2005
Top Ten Reasons Libraries Fail — by Jane Dysart
Ontario Library Association, Feb 3 – 5 2005, Toronto
Top Ten Reasons Libraries Fail — by Jane Dysart
Planning: Lessons from the Trenches with Yvonne Attard, Lynne Bentley, Marjorie Whalen — by Rebecca Jones
Barcoding Our Clients — by Rebecca Jones