The document promotes guerrilla professional development as a collaborative and engaging alternative to traditional training methods in libraries. It emphasizes leveraging in-house expertise to create a more meaningful and cost-effective training experience for staff. By fostering a supportive environment, libraries can empower their employees and enhance their professional growth.

1. Guerrilla Professional
Development
Put Collaboration to Work for You and Your
Library!
Amy Koester | St. Charles City-County Library District | Storytime Underground

2. Traditional trainings look like this:

3. And your staff thinks...
What does
this have to
do with my
job? When’s
lunch?
I could lead this
training and it
would be so
much better.
Cool ideas!

4. Why are you stifling in-house talent?!

5. USE
ALL
THE
STAFF
EXPERTISE
!!!

6. Guerrilla trainings look like this:
*Thank you, Wisconsin!

7. Your staff in guerrilla training...
My library
cares about
what I do
here! Sharing
is fun!
I have
something
valuable to
offer!
These ideas
are tubular!

8. Empower your staff, save money.

9. Empower your staff, save money.

10. GO
GUERRILLA
FOR
PROFESSIONAL
DEVELOPMENT.