NISO Webinar, Team-Building

Building successful, collaborative teams requires more than just picking people with a specific set of skills. Managers must also balance the need to support their team’s motivation and enthusiasm with planning requirements and time constraints. What are best practices for team communications? How can you ensure collective, as well as individual, accountability? What are the best ways of handling those “awkward” conversations that inevitably arise? When do you negotiate with your team and when are you justified in making demands of them? This roundtable discussion brought together a group of experienced managers from across the information community to share the lessons they’ve learned, as well as their secrets for success. Confirmed speakers include Deni Auclair, Editorial Director, HSS Journals and US Partnerships, DeGruyter; Barry Bealer, Chief Revenue Officer, Access Innovations; Heather Staines, Senior Consultant and Director of Community Engagement, DeltaThink; and Tony Zanders, Founder and CEO, Skilltype.

Event

74 Videos

NISO Webinar

Helping people gain a greater understanding of the information community — our issues and concerns, challenges and opportunities — is core to NISO's mission. Our events are a key element of this, with our popular webinar program at their heart. And, following the NISO/NFAIS merger earlier this year, all NISO members can now attend all 14 webinars in 2020 completely free of charge! This includes an unlimited number of places and full access to a recording of each webinar for anyone who is unable to attend the event itself.

Speaker

4 Videos

Barry Bealer

Consultant

Barry Bealer is currently the Chief Revenue Officer of Access Innovations, makers of the Data Harmony Suite that builds explainable AI that changes search to found. As an entrepreneurial leader in the software and information industry, Barry enjoys building and managing teams to execute sound business strategies. For over 30-years he has brought structure and process to business practices to execute more efficiently and profitably. Barry is a frequent speaker and moderator at industry events and has been involved as a board or committee member of the Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA), the Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP), and the W3C Accessibility Education and Outreach Working Group.

Speaker

1 Video

Deni Auclair

Editorial Director, De Gruyter

Deni Auclair began her career in scholarly publishing in 1998 at John Wiley & Sons, Inc., as VP, Corporate Development. In 2010, Deni stepped into the CFO position at JBJS. In early 2012. Deni joined Outsell, Inc. as VP & Lead Analyst for Science, Technology, and Healthcare in November of 2013, leaving in May of 2016 to join Delta Think as CFO and Senior Analyst. As of March 2018, she returned as President of the consultancy Media Growth Strategies, LLC, joining De Gruyter as Editorial Director, HSS Journals and US Partnerships in September 2020.

Speaker

7 Videos

Heather Staines

Independent Consultant - Independent

The future of scholarly communications, anything open, digital preservation, journal transfer, karaoke and dogs!

Speaker

7 Videos

Heather Staines

Head of Partnerships, MIT Knowledge Futures Group

Heather Staines is Head of Partnerships for the MIT Knowledge Futures Group, building open source infrastructure for publishers, libraries, and researchers. Her career includes roles as Head of Partnerships, Editorial Director, Product Manager, and VP of Content Strategy. She is active in a number of industry initiatives, including the COUNTER Board of Directors and the Transfer Working Group.

Speaker

1 Video

Tony Zanders

Founder and CEO, Skilltype

Tony Zanders is an award-winning software entrepreneur and library technology executive, currently serving as the founder and CEO of Skilltype — a software platform for information professionals and their teams to analyze, develop, and share expertise. Prior to Skilltype, Zanders served as the inaugural entrepreneur-in-residence at the Boston University Libraries, advised the senior leadership team on talent and the future of work. For nine years, he held executive roles at EBSCO and Ex Libris, where he consulted library leaders across six continents on technology strategy.