Practical Action on Jinfo's Research Focus "The information team with the right stuff", from a research and information centre manager
Tuesday, 24th July 2018

We asked one of our subscribers what they found most useful and what resonated most with them in the  Research Focus, "The information team with the right stuff", in areas from the importance of knowledge in context to fully understanding research needs and how to motivate team members.

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Carving out time for strategic thinking
Friday, 13th July 2018

Setting aside time for strategic planning when projects demand all of your time is challenging. In a recent Jinfo Community session, participants looked at how integrating strategy discussions into stakeholder and team member meetings can help you discover which workflows, products, and services need to be developed or discontinued to align with your future goals, as well as some practical next steps you can follow.

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Practical Action on Jinfo's Research Focus "The information team with the right stuff", from an information services manager
Friday, 6th July 2018

The Research Focus, "The information team with the right stuff", concluded at the end of June and the Insights and Actions report is available now for all site visitors. We asked Mandy Webster, an information services manager in the legal sector, how she and her team have been using the resources from the Research Focus.

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Community deck - setting aside time for strategy
Saturday, 23rd June 2018

Are you working IN your department or ON your department? As a leader, the most important thing you can do on behalf of your organisation is to plan for the successful future, and yet few information managers feel they have enough time to do so. In this Community session, Jinfo's director of...

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Setting aside time for strategy
21st June 2018

Are you working IN your department or ON your department? As a leader, the most important thing you can do on behalf of your organisation is to plan for the successful future, and yet few information managers feel they have enough time to do so. In this Community session, Jinfo's director of...

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Webinar deck - can you cope with continuous reinvention?
Wednesday, 6th June 2018

Leadership requires continuous improvement and reinvestment but is often overlooked. It's all too easy to work on specific tasks and busy transactional work but find it hard to justify the time required to think more strategically about the information centre as a senior-level partner to other...

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Can you cope with continuous reinvention?
5th June 2018

Leadership requires continuous improvement and reinvestment but is often overlooked. It's all too easy to work on specific tasks and busy transactional work but find it hard to justify the time required to think more strategically about the information centre as a senior-level partner to other...

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Upgrade communication skills to reshape business interactions
Monday, 4th June 2018

Successful information teams have developed the skills needed to communicate with team members as well as understand information needs and deliver executive-level results. These skills include active listening as well as presenting clear and actionable results. A recent Jinfo Community session looked at what it takes to be an effective team and provided specific actions you can use to upgrade your communication skills.

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Streamline your department using the artisan or the optimised model
Wednesday, 16th May 2018

Successful information service teams need to review, optimise and reinvent their service offerings every three years. A recent Jinfo Community session explored this topic and provided specific actions you can take to review your service and optimise your processes, using two main operational models, the artisan process and the optimised process.

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Community deck - does everyone on your team need great communication skills?
Saturday, 12th May 2018

Our research shows that the most successful information teams possess good influencing, communication and engagement skills as well as in-depth domain knowledge. But how do you manage and develop those members of staff who don't have those soft skills already or who don't have the will to gain...

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