Working Paper #7: Shared Leadership Development in the UM Libraries

Appendix B: Roles for Senior Managers

Working Paper # 7 - Introduction

Appendices:

• Appendix A: Team Leader Roles, Responsibilities and Qualifications
• Appendix B: Roles for Senior Managers
• Appendix C: Core Competencies for Leaders (from Brown University)
• Appendix D: Policy on the Review of Library Administrators and Team Leaders
• Appendix E: Reading List on Leadership

Roles for Senior Managers

• Teacher / trainer (helping others develop expertise, knowledge base in a continuous learning environment)

• Counselor / therapist / mediator

• Thinker / visionary (“perspective” keeper)

• Evaluator (of user needs)

• Coach

• Negotiator

• Consensus seeker

• Diplomat

• Model

• Manager of tension between reality and vision

• Steward (of mission, vision, values)

• Fundrasier / development / grant writer

• Project coordinator

• Change agent

• Architect (of systems, organizational culture)

• Inspiring*

• Facilitator*

• Servant*

From The Assistant/Associate Director in Academic Libraries: Roles & Issuesworkshop, ARL OMS November 11-13, 1997.

* Roles added at C-Team meeting on November 15, 2002.

Working Paper 7 - Appendices:

• Appendix A: Team Leader Roles, Responsibilities and Qualifications
• Appendix B: Roles for Senior Managers
• Appendix C: Core Competencies for Leaders (from Brown University)
• Appendix D: Policy on the Review of Library Administrators and Team Leaders
• Appendix E: Reading List on Leadership

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