Leading from the Future: Strategic Frameworking Facing Forward

Leading from the Future: Strategic Frameworking Facing Forward

We are living in a rapidly changing world that is moving much faster than organizations can necessarily react. Disruption is perpetual.

Join CT State Library staff to learn how the Division of Library Development (DLD) Strategic Framework Toolkit guided the innovative approach towards envisioning the future of the State Library. The CT State Library strove to move strategy planning beyond the traditional linear process of data analysis, looking past library land to the surrounding environment to develop robust, flexible, creative, and transformative visions of the future. The State Library recognizes that organizations embedded with foresight and futures thinking are better equipped to identify possibilities and opportunities beyond their doors and harness them today to create more future-facing organizations.

Embedded with creativity and Strategic Foresight in navigating complexity and uncertainly, the new Strategic Framework positions the agency to become more adaptive, resilient, and transformative in its development of an aspirational future for the State Library and for the numerous Connecticut communities it touches.

Learn more about the Toolkit and how DLD can work with your library to facilitate a forward-facing strategic framework.

Presenters

  • Dawn La Valle and Ashley Sklar

Recording and Slides

Please plan to attend this program as scheduled as it will not be recorded and slides will not be shared.

Who Should Come?

Best for Library Directors/Administrators, Senior Staff, Library Board Members, and anyone planning for the future of the library, and to best serve the library and community.

Accessibility 

This webinar will be captioned. If you require another access service to participate fully, please use the Accommodation Request Form at least 7 days prior to the event.

Date:
Thursday, May 1, 2025
Time:
10:00am - 11:00am
Presenter:
Dawn La Valle and Ashley Sklar
Categories:
DLD Online Webinar

Registration is required. There are 27 seats available.

Event Accessibility for Guests with Disabilities

We want to provide what you need to participate!

If you require access services to participate fully, please use the Accommodation Request Form at least 7 days prior to the event.

If you have any questions about accessibility, please contact Gail Hurley at gail.hurley@ct.gov or (860) 704-2223.

You can also see our Library and Accessibility LibGuide for more information.

Registration Eligibility

To register for a DLD workshop or webinar, you must be one of the following:

  • current library staff member
  • undergraduate or graduate library student
  • Friend or Board Member/Trustee*
  • retired or unemployed library staff

Please contact Gail Hurley at gail.hurley@ct.gov or (860) 704-2223 with registration questions.

*Unless otherwise specified that a Friend or Board Member/Trustee is not eligible for a training or workshop.

Note: paid consultants are not eligible to attend DLD workshops or webinars.

Cancellation Policy

If you cannot attend a workshop you have registered for, please remember to cancel at least 3 days in advance so we can give your spot to someone else. You can cancel via the link in your confirmation email, or by contacting Gail Hurley gail.hurley@ct.gov | (860) 704-2222.

Those who miss (without cancelling) 3 events within a 6-month period will be placed on the waiting list when registering for future events. Be sure to sign in when you arrive for any workshop.

Inclement Weather Policy

For all in-person workshops offered by the CT State Library, Division of Library Development:

If the public schools in the town where the workshop is to be held close due to weather, the workshop will be canceled. If the schools have a delay, the workshop will go on as scheduled.

For the most up-to-date information, call us at 860-704-2200.

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Continuing Education workshops and the professional development collection are funded in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered by the Connecticut State Library.