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Kaetrena
@kaetrena.bsky.social
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Researcher | Leader | Consultant | Coach I help people recognize, reconcile, and recover from low-morale experiences. https://renewalslis.com
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Renewers, if you're attending the Library Marketing & Communications Conference this year, I'm looking forward to seeing you! Learn more: tinyurl.com/9t8zvxkt
This Wednesday, I'll be in community and connection with colleagues coming to The Renewals Workshop, hosted by OhioNet! It will be an intentional day of reflection, clarification, exploration, and practice. See you there! tinyurl.com/443yd4wx
The Renewals Workshop - Event - OhioNet
Please join our award-winning facilitator, Kaetrena Davis Kendrick, MSLS, as she leads a 6-hour workshop designed to help people and groups recognize, reconcile, and recover from dysfunctional organiz...
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Stop thinking in binary when it comes to your response(s) to early signals of workplace harm. You can give the offender grace AND document their behavior. The grace may leave -- and your record will remain.
Please read this chapter to see applied practices of slow librarianship (H/T: @librarianmer.bsky.social), & to see real responses when resilience narratives are presented to library employees. Reveal the gaps & show the impacts for more humane results! Thank you @amandaelaan.bsky.social
My book chapter, Don't Do More With Less: Sustainable Work as a Management Value, has arrived! This chapter explores my first years as a manager and how I did my best to embrace slow librarianship, push back on overcommitment and vocational awe, and make my department and its work sustainable. 📚📜
Don’t Do More With Less: Sustainable Work as a Management Value
Discusses a series of decisions a middle manager made to keep the work of her department sustainable and how she incorporated her values into her process.
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Hi CDC and friends,

CDC current and former staff have created a mutual aid network called CDC mutual aid 💚

If you are looking for resources or want to help support cdc workers check out this website: www.cdcresourceportal.org

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Mutual Aid Network Portal
Our online Store is Now Open!
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Get a jump on spooky season & learn how #LowMorale Experiences are deepened by what I call GOTCHA Culture. I've identified six behavioral & cultural signals that interrupt employee success. In Part 1, let's look at:

#Gatekeeping
#Overwork
#Triangulation

Peek in to these BOOs: tinyurl.com/y4ny4d8a
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Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them. -
Assata Shakur

Pic of the day

#photography
A quick reminder that mean people do can do nice things. In fact, they'll remind you of The Nice Thing They Did while they are planning or perpetuating harm - and when they're trying to distract you from it.
Does your organization have a GOTCHA Culture?
Renewers, have you experienced any of these lose-lose situations during your #LowMorale experience? I'll be defining and exploring what I call #GOTCHA Culture soon. Like if any of these resonate, share with others, and don't forget to save this and follow so you'll know when I've dropped part 1!
When we're excited about our work & its potential for good is exactly when we should be most aware & honoring of our capacity. Otherwise, excitement will be subsumed into others' ideas of passion - allowing reduction of resources and valorization of overwork. Honoring capacity = self-preservation.
🧵Yesterday, we had an all day reference/instruction planning meeting for the start of the term & my boss (the Dean) was saying some really smart things about capacity and not taking on too much when another colleague disagreed with her. She said that when we're excited about a project, our capacity
Implementing a "Free to Focus" mandate while relying on Google Classroom is nasty work.
💯on the statement and the pun 😂
Hey hi hello - a quick reminder: If you want a bully to let up, giving them what they are demanding will intensify their intimidation/manipulation tactics. They want the power - not the deal.
You don't need to refresh your house for fall. Put that card back in your wallet and face what you're feeling. You have everything you need.
Oh yes - see also, "Library Nice!"
Keeping Toni Morrison at the front of my mind and as a salve to my heart today. The ancestors have told us who we are and remind us of our purpose and innate humaneness.
People often ignore empathy and seek performances of niceness instead.
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Renewers, I'm rounding out the year with a few more facilitation and teaching events. I hope to see you so we can learn and practice in community! Learn more and register: tinyurl.com/jhcmayku
At a toxic workplace, the interview process/seat is the first site of employee harm.
Anger hides and prevents the presence and processing of relationship/community-building emotions and conversations.
Alt question: "What interests you about this position?"
What is an interview question you've fielded (or feared) that potentially causes you to remember (&/or figure out how to side-step/minimize/hide) workplace harm you've faced? Here's a popular one: "Why do you want to leave your current position?" (See an alternative question to use in the comments)