"Creating Influence," was presented by Frank and Lisa Traditi on April 24, 2003 at the Annual Meeting.
Summary: How do you make the "powers that be" believe you are indispensable? This presentation by Lisa Traditi and her husband Frank, a business coach, showed how to combine librarianship with proven business techniques and put them to work in your institution.

The 4 hour version of this class is listed in the MLA CE Clearinghouse. Lisa and Frank would be happy to discuss presenting this CE at your location.

This streaming video is a self-directed learining experience that requires no advance registration. Credit from this streaming video can only be obtained by submitting an MLA Individual Participant Request form (Form IPR) to MLA as part of the Academy application process.

• "Creating Influence." This streaming video file can be viewed using RealOne player. It is approximately one hour and forty five minutes in length.



• "Creating Influence Worksheet." This worksheet will allow you to complete the exercises presented in the streaming video. Point and click on the "pause" button on your media player (usually two parallel vertical lines), complete the exercise, then restart the video by pointing and clicking on the "play" button on your player (usually a triangle pointing toward the right).



• Coach Frank offers individual, group, and corporate professional coaching services. Coach Frank's web site is at http://www.coachfrank.com/ or you can contact Coach Frank at 303-471-8733.



• Special thanks to our videographer, Rick Weeks. Rick provided the edited digital video of the presentation at no cost to CCML. Rick is available to produce professional streaming media for your organization or institution. Rick's company is Alliance Webcasting and you can contact him at 303-726-3886.



• Additional thanks go to the MidContinental Region of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine for free video streaming production and hosting of the video streaming file at no charge.