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This strategic plan was written during my Leadership and Administration of Information Organizations class in the fall of 2011. In the production of this plan, I focused on the theory base of strengths-based leadership, which is a psychology theory developed by Donald O. Clifton, Ph.D and continued by Tom Rath and Barry Conchie (2009). Simply put, strengths-based leadership states that by successfully identifying your unique personality strengths and the strengths of people on your team by taking a test, you will not only become a better leader, but also a better manager. This test will result in 34 specific strengths that are categorized into four larger categories of strength: executing, influencing, relationship building, and strategic thinking. This artifact is a two-year strategic plan that was developed by me and four classmates for the University of Oregon Portland Library and Learning Commons, a small, academic branch library in Portland, Ore where I worked as a student assistant at the time of writing the plan. Not only did I practice the creative thinking and analyzing of issues that are necessary when creating a short-term plan to meet specific objectives within a library, but I also engaged in fostering the strengths of my team members as they fostered my unique strengths. Thanks to the research, writing, and presentation of this strategic plan project, I can work more effectively within groups by identifying and encouraging the diverse strengths of individuals and have developed creative strategies for solving practical issues in libraries and information organizations.
Alyssa Vincent 