Staff Education Coordinating Team (SECT) Minutes for February 10, 2004
Present: Maggie Saponaro (facilitator), Pearl Coleman (attending for Heleni Pedersoli), Johnnie Love, Maggie Cunningham (Notetaker, attending for Trudi Hahn), Jane Williams, Marissa Peterfreund, Akemi Noda, Sue Baughman.
Update on Spring 2004 Staff Learning Activities
Leader: Maggie Saponaro
Seven staff learning curriculum and related activities have been organized for spring 2004,
starting in March. Name of sessions, times, dates and locations are listed on the Staff Learning and Development Calendar:
http://www.lib.umd.edu/groups/learning/calendars/CalMarch04.html
Yet to be scheduled are workshops that will teach: time management, windows overview, introduction to MS Excel and MS Access and intermediate MS PowerPoint;details will be forthcoming.
Brainstorming Scenarios for April Conflict Management Sessions (handout)
Leader: Maggie Saponaro
In April, Roger Candelaria, Campus Compliance Officer, will be conducting two Conflict Management sessions. The learning objectives will be to focus on gaining practical skills for managing internal conflict between
peer-to-peer or supervisor-to-peer. Candelaria asked for suggested themes or scenarios, specific to interpersonal situations found between library personnel, from which he could develop case studies. SECT brainstormed possible scenarios. These included:
- Team is working on a project and a member misses the deadline for their piece
- Workload varies
- Perceived workload
- How do you manage and also be accountable to the team
- Supervisor wants staff member to participate in Learning Curriculum/Committee activities and the staff member resists
- Supervisor resists staff member’s desire to participate in Learning Curriculum and/or committee activities
- Noisy, profane, messy neighbors and/or types of music played – how do you resolve? (Especially in “cubicle” situations)
- Encroaching on another’s space [related issue]
- Co-workers exhibiting negative behavior (gossip, attitude, etc.) to others
- Supervisor not creating positive work environment
- Open lines of communication [not present]
- Favoritism
- Ongoing communication problems with colleagues while working on projects (consistently not returning phone calls/e-mails)
- Staff member is unresponsive in addressing complaints of “too much work, not enough time, etc.” with supervisor
- Blatant disregard/disrespect of meeting ground rules (passing notes, turning away from the group, having side conversations)
- Cultural/customs differences in terms of speaking up to supervisors about potential issues/problems
- Inappropriate language from co-workers [heard while they are working at their desk]
- Workspace setting does not allow for private/confidential conversation
- How do you compromise
- How do you “peacefully co-exist in ‘cubicle-land’”?
- Personal disagreements from outside the meeting between two members of a team is brought into the meeting,
- Causes discomfort
- Colleagues on [numerous] outside committees – leaving campus frequently and adding to the workload of colleagues [by not being around to do their job]
- Staff member threatening to quit or file a grievance (more than once) when corrected
Round Robin
Leader: Team members
Johnnie Love advertised the upcoming Brown Bag video “the Road to Brown,” in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court Case Brown vs Board of Education, February 19, 2004, 11:30am-1:00pm, McKeldin 7121. As well, Johnnie spoke about the exhibit being designed to celebrate this anniversary. Sue Baughman suggested that the Brown Bag sessions be advertised well in advance.
Jane Williams mentioned an article featured in Sunday, February 8th Washington Post “When ‘works well with others’ isn’t your strong suit (by Mary Ellen Slayer: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22733-2004Feb8.html and suggested this theme could be transformed into a workshop. Maggie talked about how the Myers-Briggs Personality Type indicators relate to this article. Johnnie Love talked about possibly creating a workshop on ageism in the workplace. Jane also mentioned that Safety & Security workshops will be held for the branch libraries (PAL, EPSL, HBK and Chemistry).
Marissa Peterfreund said that new titles have been added to the learning Curriculum Resources Library and will be brought to the new SECT meeting for review. Also, Marissa said that she would be meeting with Barbara Goldberg, Campus Learning Assistance Services, to arrange meeting management workshops.
Maggie Cunningham outlined the general program of library instruction classes for the spring semester (Library Day for ENGL 101, Library Lab for BSCI 125, Library Safari for UNIV 100/101) and mentioned that teaching outline for Beyond the Basics has been completely revamped, in collaboration with the ENGL PWP, and has been renamed Field Guide to Research.
At the end of the meeting, Maggie Saponaro distributed the Summer (2003) for Supervisor Survey Results which will be discussed at SECT’s March 9th meeting.
Next Meeting:
Tuesday, March 9th, 1:00-2:00, MCK 7121
