Meeting of cpd25 Task Group 4: Personal Effectiveness and Management

Tuesday, 15th February 2011, 2pm, LSE Library

In attendance: Florence Achen-Owor, Sally Brock, Sally Faith (Chair), Claire Hackshall (Administrator), Claire Jeffery, Val Straw.

1. Apologies:

Apologies were received from Sara Burnett, Karen Ellis-Rees and Gerard Power. 

2. Minutes of the last meeting:

Accepted as an accurate record.

3. Matters arising:

   N/A

4. Review the programme to date for 2010-11

4.1 Leadership Development: lessons for aspiring leaders

CH confirmed that this programme of three days in total was now fully booked and due to run February – March.

4.2 Influencing & Persuading

S Brock and CH reported that this course has ten bookings at present and would be run on 3rd March.  

4.3 Time Management

CH reported that there were 11 bookings at present for this course, which would be run on 30th March. 

4.4 Emotional Intelligence

CH reported that there was one booking for this course at present and that it would be advertised further afield nearer to the date it is due to run (15th June).

4.5 An Event for Senior Library Assistants

S Burnett, KER and GP had sent their apologies and had emailed SF to say that they were meeting up later in the week to discuss their plans for this event. 

4.6 Managing Budgets

SF reported that this had been run on 26 November and had gone very well. 

4.7 An event on the issues of ‘student behaviour’

FAO and VS reported to the group that the date of 12th May had now been set for this event and that they hoped to advertise it very soon. 

GP and KER had sent their apologies, but CH confirmed that the date of 24th February had been set for this event and that 18 bookings had been received so far.

4.9 Managing Meetings

SF reported that she was currently investigating the options for an event on this topic.

 4.10 New Managers Toolkit

SF and CH reported that the dates of 5th and 15th April had been set for this programme. CJ agreed to take over the running of this event from SF and would work to ‘achieve cohesion’ with the two trainers being used for this. CH agreed to send CJ the email addresses for the two trainers, plus the feedback from last year’s course. 

 4.11 Marketing Yourself: Transferable Skills

SF and CH reported that the date of 5th May had been set for this course. CH agreed to send SF a copy of last year’s advert for this event, so that it could be updated for this year.

 4.12 Focus Groups

VS reported that she would not now be running this event as Task Group 5 were also running an event on this topic and were quite far advanced with it. 

4.13 Visit to the House of Commons

S Brock reported that this visit would be taking place on 23rd February and that cpd25 had been very fortunate in being able to secure 15 places.

4.15 Visit to Kew

S Burnett had sent her apologies for the meeting, but CH was able to confirm that the date of 6th May had been set for this visit. 

4.16 Visit to Surrey University on the Subject of Space Usage

S Burnett had sent her apologies for the meeting, but CH was able to confirm that the date of 22nd February had been set for this visit. 

4.17 Visit to Sussex University on the Subject of Space Usage

SF reported to the group that a date for this was still on-going, due to refurbishment work that was being carried out at present. 

4.18 Visit to the Kubrick Archive

KER had sent her apologies for the meeting, but CH was able to confirm that the date of 11th April had been set for this visit.

5. AOB:

A discussion took place regarding how members could improve their adverts for their events, and CH was requested to ask the Chair of cpd25 if a marketing person could be invited to speak to them on this topic at the annual cpd25 Planning Afternoon.

SF asked the group to start thinking about ideas for next year’s programme and to ask their colleagues for topics that they would like to see offered. Members were asked to bring these ideas with them to the next meeting.

SF requested that if members find they are unable to attend a task group meeting they should let her or the administrator know as soon as they can, although it is appreciated that sometimes this isn’t always possible.

6. Date of next meeting:

It was agreed that this would be held on Thursday, 19th May at 11am at LSE, with the annual task group lunch taking place after this.