2017 Kotuku Cohort
The Kōtuku Emerging Leaders project is one of three initiatives developed by LIANZA to strengthen the library and information profession in New Zealand and was launched as a result of member feedback in 2012.
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Author: 111 Emergency from New Zealand
With my part of the project completed, I’m left with the question: who are these institutions for, and who are they serving, if not projects like this one? When talking about leadership, GLAM institutions should be enabling people and communities to lead their own projects as much as they should be leading themselves.
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Channelling Leslie Knope = Ultimate Motivation
Talking to colleagues and friends it seems many of us have some kind of leadership epiphany in this sector. It might be the moment they realise they do or don’t want to move up the ladder, or the moment they realise “oh shit I am a boss now”. My leadership epiphany was less a “what I want to do” moment and more of a “oh hell to the no” moment. It came as I sat looking at the leadership team of the council I was working for - the CEO, COO and CFO (essentially the people who made the big decisions)...
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Helping Megan Harvey at Auckland Museum manoeuver rolled flags onto rolled storage racks – definitely a case of needing to support colleagues! Photo courtesy of Megan Harvey
At my high school, prefects and the head girl and boy were voted into their positions by classmates. When I was called into the headmaster’s office and told that I’d been chosen to be head girl for 2006, I was deeply shocked to be chosen. I don’t say this to humble brag (because really, who cares about a high school ‘position’ 10 years later? Not me) but because it was my first experience of being a leader, and opened my eyes to the fact that perhaps this quite traditional form of leadership wasn’t for me.
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