Host: Stephanie Denton
Participants: Linda-Marie Barrett, Anna Brown, Esty, Shari Stauch, Clancey D’Isa, Pam French, Jasmine Brooks, Aggie, Hamid Akbari
Notes:
Questions and reflections around:
- Development of staff which seeks professionalizing the aspects of bookselling that are overlooked: management, career skills, development
- Community foundation: creating and sustaining it
- How much management matters
Transitions to management positions; what mattered:
- Mentorship programs and good managers by example; people as resources and time to direct the conversation
- Peers and mentors in other industries; no competition
- Opportunity to define the place of the manager in the process of professional development
- Being told there is a career possibility, should you want it; idea coming from both sides
- Positions beyond management
- Transferable skills as reasoning to stay in the stores
Professional benefits from BINC
- Scholarships for professional development
- Stipends to offset the cost, for stores, to support professional development
Storytelling as skill
- Storytelling a central skills, business administration
- Bookkeeping, another excellent and transferrable skill, like HR, social media, and project management
Team Building
- Generating teamwork through shared commitment
- The Gold Standard https://replay.dropbox.com/share/BmeJX3fuhpi6Z97E?video_version_id=pid_rvv%3AAAAAAFHBF8WxVIQKc2GSltBu9xEtMCOnmSz5PMJjuX1_1U40
- Making staff feel like they’ve done something big
Reimagining Bookstores 