Ostensibly meant to help "managers and supervisors lead their staffs successfully through changes in the workplace," Coping With Change is set in a bar modeled on the "Cheers" bar with a pair of characters who look and sound like Norm and Cliff. What Cliff tells Norm is that effectively coping with change requires a 6-step plan: define the situation, recognize the impact, set a goal to be achieved, explore your options, make decisions, and evaluate and adapt. The--dagnabbit! I've gone and done it again...given away the entire content of the video in one sentence. I'm sorry. Wait...there's something I forgot. And it's important because the video repeated it several times: your library should have "regularly scheduled staff meetings." If there actually is a library out there (not counting single person libraries) that doesn't have staff meetings then most of this--along with the facts that the Allies won WWII and Jimmy Hoffa is missing and presumed dead--will probably be news to you. You might need this tape. The thousands of others who already have staff meetings and have opened enough Chinese fortune cookies to cover each of the 6 steps in the "coping with change" plan can safely avoid this one. Not recommended. (Available from: ALA Video/Library Video Network, 320 York Rd., Towson, MD 21204; (800) 441-TAPE.)
Coping With Change
(1993) 16 min. $130. ALA Video/Library Video Network. Public performance rights included. Color cover. Vol. 8, Issue 5
Coping With Change
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