Workshop on management

Quality Management - Quality Collections Care
A Management Training Workshop
12th Annual Meeting of SPNHC
July 12th and 13th, 1997
Madison, Wisconsin

The Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections is
sponsoring a management workshop for collections care staff,
directors and administrators. This two-day workshop is designed to
improve the ability of workshop participants to successfully
implement collections care improvements at their institutions.  It
is geared to the needs of staff working with natural history
collections in museums or universities.

The workshop will cover the basics of project management, as well as
exploring how to persuade key players to buy into a course of
action, and how to effectively communicate goals and needs to other
staff.  Participants will meet in a combination of group lectures
and discussions and smaller break-out sessions.  The format will
include group exercises as well as a take-home assignment that will
challenge participants to identify a project in their institutions
that they can plan and implement using the methods they have learned
in the workshop.

Collections Care Staff--how will this benefit you?  The workshop
will:

    *   Improve your ability to implement collections care
        improvements at your institution

    *   manage projects that require the cooperation of people who
        may be resistant to change, or have goals that conflict with
        yours.

    *   manage projects that include participants above you or
        parallel to you in the chain of command

    *   administrators, attending will help you:

    *   be an effective advocate for sound collections management
        decisions

    *   integrate collections care concerns into museum planning

    *   implement decisions with a maximum of staff cooperation

    *   help you to understand the motivations and interests of
        collections care staff

    *   enable you to use their strengths more effectively

Workshop curriculum planning and presentation will be developed  by
Mary Case and Will Phillips of the management consulting firm Qm2
(Quality Management - Quality Museums) in consultation with the
Education and Training Committee of SPNHC.  Qm2 has extensive
experience working with non-profits in general and museums in
particular.

Registration fee is $175 for the two day session, which includes
refreshments but not lunch. To register and reserve your place in
the workshop, send a check for $175 made out to SPNHC Workshop to:

    Julia Golden
    SPNHC Treasurer
    University of Iowa
    Department of Geology
    Iowa City, Iowa 52242-1379.

The SPNHC Education and Training Committee is soliciting corporate
sponsorship in order to be able to provide a limited number of
scholarships. Contact Beth Merritt at 513-345-8508
<74437.462<-a t->compuserve< . >com> for further information.

This project was supported in part by an award from the Institute of
Museum and Library Services, a Federal agency that strengthens
museums to benefit the public.

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