Project Details

We ask that you work on a project or initiative for your organization or the sector.  It should address a real need or issue for and be sponsored by your manager or a sector leader.  Why? Well, because work-related projects report to a sponsor or steering committee. 

 

Some LLEAD members have completed projects for a library or information sector association, in which cases the sponsor has been the association executive director.   

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Why a project at all?

For you to:

• pull together all elements of LLEAD

• purposefully use the five managerial mindsets, deepening your mastery of the framework

• address an organizational or sector issue that is meaningful for you and important to your organization, manager or sponsor

• influence and collaborate with a range of stakeholders and/or partners in a variety of departments or functions

• manage a project that results in practical deliverables to a real situation (probably after LLEAD ends).

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Examples of projects undertaken by LLEAD students:

• Virtual training and development site for a large public library that provides a consistent approach throughout the system for onboarding new employees and continuous development of all staff.

• Comprehensive needs assessment for an additional library branch including: potential locations, and service delivery model, and communication plan for council and city staff, etc.

• Proposal for the creation of a new division at a research university library that will integrate research data management, digital publishing, data services, digital repositories, and preservation

• Report on and recommendations for a public library regarding its integrated library system