<div dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Lead From Any Position</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Are
 you looking to develop your leadership skills to benefit your library? 
Your community?  Your professional association? Your career?  The Oregon
 Library Association is offering a full day leadership training at the 
2015 OLA Conference in Eugene -- </span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Leading From Any Position: Creating Learning Libraries in Five Easy Lessons </span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">--
 that you can register for now. This preconference is being planned by 
the OLA Leadership Task Force. OLA is committed to supporting the 
building of leadership skills in its members. The preconference is open 
to all library workers.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Becky
 Schreiber and John Shannon, facilitators of the well regarded PNLA 
Leads! Leadership Institute, will guide participants in exploring 
leadership from all positions in libraries. Their results have been 
recognized by library staff who embrace the concepts and implement the 
disciplines of Peter Senge’s Learning Organizations. This preconference 
will examine innovative ideas and provide support for participants’ 
efforts to lead in our librarie and beyond.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">What can a leadership training do for you? Read this testimony and </span><a href="https://ola.memberclicks.net/leadership-testimonials?servId=2863" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">more</span></a><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> on OLA’s Leadership Taskforce webpages.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> </span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><img class="" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/LRFWq7vc7L881IuUrjbiqLiKFcJhpBV8m6UQ3Iu4CSEBkL3TZTNyknVKG7XOQVlox11ik0qamtZmc5hxaNz82oIuAdfnh-STbAW30N1N_pfx0vOwEN7dlwSxiuNbQxlKlw" style="border: medium none;" alt="testimony.jpg" height="133px;" width="200px;"></span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Angela Weyrens, Multnomah County Library</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">“Although
 it has been close to 8 years since I participated in the PNLA 
Leadership Institute, I carry the talisman of the self-awareness and 
confidence I started to build there with me every day. Becky Schreiber 
and John Shannon were amazing guides on the road to successful 
leadership. They didn't care about my official position or level of 
education- only that I had the potential to help shape the future of 
libraries and I was willing to participate in some deep and painful 
reflection to do so. They helped to direct my passion for our 
institution down a leadership path. I am the leader I am in part because
 they helped me see who and what I could be.”</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">In OLA’s experiential preconference, we will:</span></p><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:15px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Explore
 the concepts of Leading from Any Position; to take initiative and 
garner influence regardless of organizational authority</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:15px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Practice practical applications of Peter Senge’s five learning disciplines</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:15px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Apply the disciplines to each participant’s unique situation</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:15px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Plan strategies for using the concepts to create a collaborative culture</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:15px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Experience the fun of creating together, treating ambiguity as an opportunity for group innovation</span></p></li></ul><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">For more information about the preconference, including the agenda, visit </span><a href="http://www.olaweb.org/leadership-taskforce" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">OLA’s Leadership Taskforce webpage</span></a><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">. Register for the preconference through the </span><a href="https://ola.memberclicks.net/ola-conference-2015---registration" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">OLA Conference 2015 website</span></a><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">.</span></p><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">

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<p><span><span>Candice Watkins</span></span></p>

<p><span><span>Oregon Library Association President, 2014-2015</span></span></p>

<p><span><span>Library Director</span></span></p>

<p><span><span>Clatsop Community College</span></span></p><p><span><span>(503) 338-2460<br></span></span></p>

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