EdX

Personnel Management for Public Libraries (edX)

Offered by University of Michigan, MichiganX,
Personnel Management for Public Libraries (edX)

Learn the foundational principles of personnel management and leadership.

Class Deals by MOOC List - Click here and see EdX's Active Discounts, Deals, and Promo Codes.

This course, part of the Public Library Management Professional Certificate program, will explore skills needed for hiring and evaluating personnel to reflect your library's mission through an organizational culture that will thrive in your community.
Learners will understand the legal considerations when managing a diverse workforce.

What you'll learn

  • Organizational culture from an HR perspective
  • How to write and evaluate job descriptions
  • A basic understanding of the laws pertaining to hiring (Federal and State)
  • How to evaluate and develop a budget for staffing costs
  • How to determine if the budget allows for staffing priorities as described in the organizational chart
  • How to create and utilize performance evaluations
  • How to identify needed policies that allow for a healthy and competitive hiring

Syllabus

  • Can you afford the Library you wish to lead?
  • Are your people able to get the job done?
  • Do you have the right people doing the work?
  • Do your policies allow you the flexibility to offer a healthy and competitive hiring environment?
Go to Class
MOOC List is learner-supported. When you buy through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

Related Courses

Liderazgo femenino: potencia tus habilidades e impulsa el cambio (edX) EdX
Inter-American Development Bank - IDB,IDBx

Liderazgo femenino: potencia tus habilidades e impulsa el cambio (edX)

Marketing & Communication

Construye tu plan individual de desarrollo personal, fortalece tus habilidades intrapersonales y comunicacionales y consigue potenciar tu liderazgo. ¿Sabes cuál es tu estilo de liderazgo? ¿Te gustaría desarrollar o fortalecer habilidades de liderazgo con un enfoque de género?¿Conoces cómo se encuentran los países de América Latina y el Caribe en temas de liderazgo femenino o cuál es la importancia de que más mujeres asuman cargos de toma de decisiones en la región?

Self Paced
Self-Paced
Women Leadership Emotional Intelligence
Details
Managing a Diverse and Inclusive Workplace for Public Libraries (edX) EdX
University of Michigan,MichiganX

Managing a Diverse and Inclusive Workplace for Public Libraries (edX)

Management & Leadership Business

Learn management skills to support workplace diversity and inclusion in a public library setting. You will learn about theories and frameworks that explain the underlying mechanisms of the impacts of diversity and learn how to understand and address the needs of women and underrepresented minorities (e.g. race, color, national origin, religion, sex, gender identity, marital status, age, sexual orientation, and citizenship).

Self Paced
Self-Paced
Management Workplace Selection
Details
Liderazgo en la empresa familiar (edX) EdX
Tecnológico de Monterrey,TecdeMonterreyX

Liderazgo en la empresa familiar (edX)

Management & Leadership Business

Aprende las dinámicas de las empresas familiares, con el fin de aplicar las habilidades, herramientas e instrumentos que implican liderar y orquestar la empresa familiar de forma exitosa. Para lograr que la familia trascienda y la empresa se sostenga en el tiempo, en este curso de emprendimiento y administración de empresas, tendrás la oportunidad de comprender la complejidad de las dinámicas de familia y empresa, reflexionar sobre los roles y formas de pensar del dirigente familiar y hacer un diagnóstico del emprendimiento empresarial.

Self Paced
Self-Paced
Entrepreneurship Leadership Family Business
Details
Leadership Strategies: Listening to Lead in Today's Workspaces (edX) EdX
University of Wisconsin–Madison,WisconsinX

Leadership Strategies: Listening to Lead in Today's Workspaces (edX)

Marketing & Communication

Upgrade your listening skills to meet the demands of today’s diverse, changing, challenging and often virtually connected world. Did you know that most people believe they’re better listeners than other people think they are? Research proves this as well as the fact that outstanding leaders have exceptional listening skills. If you want to stand out as someone with leadership potential or be the first person who comes to mind for high-profile assignments, one of the best things you can do is develop your basic and advanced listening skills.

Self Paced
Self-Paced
Leadership Listening Leadership Skills
Details
Let’s Get Personal: Working with Personality Type (edX) EdX
University of Maryland, College Park,University System of Maryland - USM,USMx,UMD

Let’s Get Personal: Working with Personality Type (edX)

Management & Leadership Business

Effective leaders capitalize on their strengths & manage their weaknesses. Build your power skills by understanding the MBTI, personality type assessment, and how to use your type to your greatest advantage as an effective leader. Great leaders are just ordinary people with the right skills at the right time. To become a great leader, however, you have to know yourself well. What are your core personality attributes? How do you make decisions? What’s your decision-making style? How do you know?

Self Paced
Self-Paced
Leadership Leader Effective Leadership
Details
Inspiring and Motivating Arts and Culture Teams (edX) EdX
University of Michigan,MichiganX

Inspiring and Motivating Arts and Culture Teams (edX)

Management & Leadership

Learn critical leadership skills that enable you to inspire and motivate individuals and teams, specifically in Arts and Culture organizations. Offered by the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan in collaboration with National Arts Strategies Senior Management Institute, this course focuses on equipping senior leaders of arts and culture organizations and/or nonprofits with the critical skills for inspiring employee engagement and performance while motivating people to adjust behavior and embrace change.

Self Paced
Self-Paced
Culture Art Leadership
Details
Storytelling That Delivers Program and Project Outcomes (edX) EdX
University of Maryland, College Park,University System of Maryland - USM,USMx,UMD

Storytelling That Delivers Program and Project Outcomes (edX)

Business

Storytelling is how leaders lead other leaders. Tell your project’s story to inspire your project teams, encourage your stakeholders, and gain customer commitment to project and program success. Program and project managers are master storytellers. They have to be in order to weave high-priority information into a memorable narrative for their people. Customers must commit to and understand their goals, and how the program is meeting them.

Self Paced
Self-Paced
Leadership Negotiations Risk Management
Details
Modern Product Leadership (edX) EdX
University of Maryland, College Park,University System of Maryland - USM,USMx,UMD

Modern Product Leadership (edX)

Management & Leadership Business

Lead product teams and organizations to deliver winning solutions for customers while driving engagement and innovation across the enterprise. Product Managers are masters at internal sales, team building, delegation, and empowerment. They also know that great product management careers are not built alone. From envisioning a product strategy to correctly portraying the product roadmap, the process must be inclusive, interactive, and motivating with modern leadership techniques. As your products grow, you’ll also need to skills to manage teams of teams. This course will enable you to align product teams, product designs, and product development for speed and innovation at scale.

Self Paced
Self-Paced
Leadership Product Management Product Management Professional Certificate
Details
Agile Leadership Principles and Practices (edX) EdX
University of Maryland, College Park,University System of Maryland - USM,USMx,UMD

Agile Leadership Principles and Practices (edX)

Engineering Business

Accelerate and improve team decisions by learning Agile’s facilitating leadership principles to unleash team productivity, motivation, and problem solving. Agile can often challenge project managers in the realm of leadership. Old styles of command-control are now a thing of the past, except for the most conservative organizations. While good leaders employ a variety of leadership skills and leadership styles to motivate team members, even this is not enough.

Self Paced
Self-Paced
Agile Leadership Motivation
Details