Category: Mentorship & Leadership Development
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CALL Mentorship & Leadership Development Committee (MLDC) 2018-2019 Report
This year the Mentorship & Leadership Development Committee focused on cultivating mentorship through informal brown-bag gatherings, providing support for our members by reviewing program and article submissions (thank you Heidi and Debbie), and welcoming new members at CALL Business Meetings (thank you Mandy and Sally). We encouraged new members to apply for grants and attend…
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2019 Recap: Mentoring & Leadership Development Events
The Mentorship and Leadership Development Committee (MLDC) has been busy! Here is some of the great work already completed by the Committee: MDLC launched a new page on the CALL website under Members Information – this page includes upcoming events, the mentorship form, key contacts and more. The Professional Development Encouragement subcommittee (Lyonette Louis-Jacques and…
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Modern Mentorship
The Mentorship and Leadership Development Committee (MDLC) recently hosted a mentorship brown bag event at Chicago-Kent College of Law on Thursday, January 24, 2019. With the demands of work, professional development, and our personal lives, it can be challenging to add mentorship to your task list. Because of this, we decided to invite our newer…
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CALL Mentorship and Leadership Development Committee 2017-2018 Annual Report
Co-Chairs: Gretchen Van Dam Deborah Rusin Committee members: Sarah Andeen Ben Brighoff Heidi Kuehl Sally Holterhoff Julie Melvin
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Leadership Library
For this issue’s Leadership Library, I would like to recommend listening to a segment on The New Yorker Radio Hour dedicated to a unique book on leadership. Elizabeth Samet edited an anthology of readings on leadership. The anthology has an unusual range of authors (from Zadie Smith to Machiavelli), and that is because Samet is…
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We Have Met the Leader and He Is Us: Recommending the AALL Leadership Academy and Reflecting on Lessons Learned
In early April, I had the privilege of attending the American Association of Law Libraries’ Leadership Academy. The most profound and interesting takeaway from the conference was the idea that we can all be leaders, even if we are not the boss.
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Mentorship and Leadership Development Committee 2016 Annual Report
The 2015-2016 Mentorship and Leadership Development Committee (MLDC) was Jamie Sommer and Clare Willis (co-chairs), Ben Brighoff, Tom Gaylord, and Gretchen Van Dam.
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Leadership Library
The CALL Mentorship and Leadership Development Committee is excited to introduce a new feature that we are calling the “Leadership Library”. The Committee was pleased to see so many members turn out for our leadership roundtable in January. It demonstrated that CALL members are committed to taking on strong leadership roles within their organizations, both…
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“CALLing Future Leaders” Event
After attending the “CALLing Future Leaders” event on Thursday, January 28, 2016 at DLA Piper, I had some key takeaways. Keith Ann Stiverson was the Keynote speaker. The panel discussion was moderated by Clare Gaynor Willis. The panel was made up of: Gretchen Van Dam, Lyonette Louis-Jacques, Robert Martin, and Julie Pabarja.
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February 2015 Business Meeting Round-Up
CALL held its third Business Meeting of the year at Morton’s Steakhouse, 65 E. Wacker Place, on February 26, 2015. President Margaret Schilt called the meeting to order at noon and praised the Meetings Committee for finding a great new venue. Margaret welcomed one new CALL member, Peter Kaiser from Bloomberg BNA.