Librarians' Christian Fellowship

Librarians and Disciples in a Time of Trouble

Date: 28th April
Time: 10:30 am-4:45 pm
Venue: Chancellor's Room, Hughes Parry Hall, Cartwright Gardens, London WC1H 9EF
Cost: £25.00 (unwaged: £20.00) (includes lunch)
Registration: Non-members are very welcome to attend. Please print out the booking form, complete and return to our secretary Graham Hedges at the address on the form.

Speakers:

In the morning Michael Coveney of TransformWorkUK will be speaking on Flourishing in a Time of Trouble.

"No matter where you look, doom, gloom and despondency surround us. And yet in the midst of a global economic slowdown where the threat of redundancy casts an ever-growing long shadow, the Bible tells us to ˜look up" and to be cheerful. Not only that, it promises that those that love God will flourish irrespective of what is happening around them.

So what does the Bible mean by "flourishing" and how do you shrug off the despair that surrounds so many ? This practical, lively session aims to answer these questions and will equip you to thrive no matter where you work."

Michael Coveney is an effective communicator with more than 35 years of experience in helping organisations around the world, plan and manage corporate strategy. He is the author of a number of business books, a course developer/leader for the Antwerp Management School, and runs workshops on the subject of performance management for senior executives of major organisations. Michael also works part-time for Transform Work UK, a Christian charity that encourages and supports Christian groups to transform the place where they work.

In the afternoon three LCF members will offer
Three Views on Discipleship and Ambition

Gordon Harris will start by looking at what the Bible has to say about our priorities as Christians and will go on to look at how he handles career goals in the context of coaching the whole person towards congruence

Gordon has previously worked as Director of the Orchard Learning Resources Centre at the University of Birmingham and as Senior Information Officer for the relief agency Tearfund. He now runs his own coaching business Forward Coaching.

John Wickenden will describe his career over the past forty-three years, which he describes as “very conservative”. For most of this time he has run a one-person library and has not aggressively pursued career promotion, as he prefers a good work-life balance and time to pursue activities outside work (e.g. church leadership and service).

John is a biomedical information scientist at Eli Lilly & Co.Ltd.

Sara Batts will argue that we are given talents to develop and explore and if someone's gift is leadership they should accept this. We should promote ourselves and our professional competencies as humility is not best exercised via lowliness/refusing promotion/working in a back office.

Sara is Library Service Co-ordinator for a large US law firm based in the City and in 2011 served as President of SLA (Special Libraries Association) Europe.

For further details contact Graham Hedges.