1. Digital Leadership
What is digital leadership?
Leadership is commonly defined as the activity of leading a group of individuals. However, as organisations change and structures vary some commentators have started to define leadership in terms of behaviour, in particular the impact an individual makes within the workplace. This is what this course is about, developing leadership qualities, regardless of your role within your present organisation. Digital leadership refers to the ability to harness digital technologies to facilitate and enhance your leadership skills, specifically when we begin to develop relationships with colleagues,customers and suppliers beyond the physical organisation. There is also an increasing expectation to effectively use data to inform decision making and to evaluate services, with respect to impact.
Why Collection Management?
At the heart of collection management, regardless of where it sits organisationally, is the selection, budgeting, promotion and evaluation of resources. Increasingly the digital world has encroached on the collection management world in these areas. With price increases and reduced budgets Universities periodically have to evaluate their collections and data has an important role in this. Suppliers and publishers are increasingly taking advantage of digital communication to stay in touch with their customers, not only to talk about current resources, but to promote new trends in the publishing world. As staff development budgets have diminished within organisations librarians value the relationships they can develop often via social networks, and/or initiated by attending conferences and events. Also, organisations such as the UKSG are offering webinars, often free, and recorded. Digital leadership qualities can be evidenced by taking advantage of these opportunities and cascading the knowledge learned to colleagues.
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For each of the behaviours given on the Home Page of this course above identify a challenge that you think you would like to overcome.