Liz Vine’s invited paper for the 2021 Association of College & Research Libraries’ conference discusses the role of High Impact Practices through the lens of experiential learning, and with an eye towards equity and learner-centered pedagogy. The 2019 low morale study (done with Ione T. Damasco) is noted in discussions of BIPOC experiencing a dearthContinue reading “Renewals Reach: High Impact Practices & Student Employment”
Author Archives: Kaetrena Davis Kendrick
Reserved: The Renewal Colloquium @SC State Library (May 2023)
On May 25, I’ll be leading The Renewal Colloquium – with a special focus for library leaders – for the South Carolina State Library. Register soon.
Report Update: Job-Hunting during Low-Morale Experiences – Part 2 (April 2023)
This report update shares qualitative responses of from my job hunting during low-morale experiences data collection project. View earlier qualitative responses here and here, and view Part 1 of this latest update here. If you haven’t started looking for a job yet, how have your job search concerns impacted your daily work? “It is difficultContinue reading “Report Update: Job-Hunting during Low-Morale Experiences – Part 2 (April 2023)”
Report Update: Job-Hunting during Low-Morale Experiences – Part 1 (April 2023)
In March 2021 I shared an update of my ongoing data collection project on how job-hunting is impacted by low-morale experiences. Specifically, the survey explores the impact and outcomes of the job-seeking process while also dealing with the cognitive, mental, emotional, and physical health tolls of workplace abuse and neglect. You may also review the initialContinue reading “Report Update: Job-Hunting during Low-Morale Experiences – Part 1 (April 2023)”
Renewals Reach: Work conditions and organizational justice
Matteson, Ming, and Silva apply organizational justice theory to decision-making in library administration and consider the role of this application in improving employee perceptions of the workplace, particularly where perceptions of fairness, autonomy and other factors. Access the article (possible paywall).
Five Years up
Today Renewals is five years old! We’re also recognizing the five year anniversary of the Renewers Facebook community, and the three-year anniversary of Renewals’ Twitter and Instagram communities. Renewals communities have continued growing – respectively, our Facebook community, now has 2,054 members, Twitter: 1,311, and Instagram: 940. Also, data collection projects have continued and/or commenced,Continue reading “Five Years up”
Report: Legacy Toxicity in Formal Leader Low-Morale Experiences – Part 2 (March 2023)
Since Fall of 2021 I’ve been tracking formal leaders’ experiences with Legacy Toxicity, and earlier this month I shared the inaugural quantitative dataset for this ongoing data collection project. In this post, I’m sharing qualitative data from the survey (n=53). These are selected responses from two open-ended questions asking participants to offer contextual information aboutContinue reading “Report: Legacy Toxicity in Formal Leader Low-Morale Experiences – Part 2 (March 2023)”
Report: Legacy Toxicity in Formal Leader Low-Morale Experiences – Part 1 (February 2023)
For the past few years I’ve been considering something I call Legacy Toxicity: the dysfunctional environment inherited by a person who assumes a leadership position in a toxic organization or group. Such toxicity may not be effectively mitigated due to the previous incumbent’s role in a) engaging in or perpetuating abuse/neglect, b) already exhausting avenuesContinue reading “Report: Legacy Toxicity in Formal Leader Low-Morale Experiences – Part 1 (February 2023)”
Book Haul: Communication
A fundamental thread throughout low-morale experience development is how the people involved talk (or don’t) talk with each other. Frameworks like library nice and resilience narratives encourage inauthentic or weaponized performances of civility or toxic positivity; in turn, people engage behaviors of hypervigilance and negative self-talk as they try to predict or decipher what people areContinue reading “Book Haul: Communication”
Launched: Renewals Executive Coaching
A year ago on this day, I started Renewals Coaching! Today, I’m beyond excited to announce that I’m launching Renewals Executive Coaching, designed to focus on the organizational culture and performance needs and concerns of formal leaders. This service expansion continues its core objective of working with people seeking support while working in dysfunctional workplaces, withContinue reading “Launched: Renewals Executive Coaching”