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Fly Like a Helicopter & Run like a Lemonade Stand

Fly Like a Helicopter & Run like a Lemonade Stand (February 12, 2024)
Content related to the education session Fly Like a Helicopter & Run like a Lemonade Stand, Winter Institute 2024.
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Topic:
  • Bookselling Essentials
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  • 101
Description
In this interactive session, as a follow-up to his morning keynote, James Rhee will lead a discussion on measurements and operational processes enhancing balance, agility, and goodwill as it relates to the business of life and the life of business.
 
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Lunch Keynote with William Ury: Possible: How We Survive (and Thrive) in an Age of Conflict

Lunch Keynote with William Ury: Possible: How We Survive (and Thrive) in an Age of Conflict (February 12, 2024)
Content related to the education session Lunch Keynote with William Ury: Possible: How We Survive (and Thrive) in an Age of Conflict, Winter Institute 2024.
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  • Bookselling Essentials
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  • 101
Description
How can we survive—and even thrive—in this age of conflict? Negotiation expert William Ury, coauthor of the best-selling Getting to YES, introduces a transformative mindset in his upcoming book, Possible: How We Survive (and Thrive) in an Age of Conflict (to be published by Harper Business on February 20, 2024). Drawing on 45 years of experience, Ury presents an actionable framework, a “Path to Possible”, for navigating conflicts of any scale—from boardroom battles to large-scale international conflict —by sharing a range of personal stories intermixed with practical takeaways. Whether you’re facing a family feud, a workplace dispute, or a political crisis, Possible will help you turn any challenge into an opportunity. Equal parts memoir, manual, and manifesto, Possible empowers us all to be “Possibilists”: those who believe in the human potential to transform today’s toughest conflicts creatively and constructively.
 
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The New Marketing and Media Strategy

The New Marketing and Media Strategy (February 12, 2024)
Content related to the education session The New Marketing and Media Strategy, Winter Institute 2024.
Topic:
  • Marketing & PR
Tags:
  • 101

 
Description
The media landscape and consumer reading and listening habits have changed considerably in recent years. We have witnessed the growth of new and existing social media channels and many traditional media outlets have disappeared or reduced coverage and content. What are the most effective channels for bookstores to reach their customers, market to new customers, and engage with their community? This session will break this down, answer your questions, and provide some guiding principles to help you make the right choices for your store.
 
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Kassie King, The Novel Neighbor - Webster Groves, MO
Cris Siqueira, Lions Tooth - Milwaukee, WI
Kalli King, Rediscovered Books - Boise, ID
Laura Trujillo, USA TODAY - Tysons, VA
 
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Leverage Spreadsheets For Bookstore Success

Leverage Spreadsheets For Bookstore Success (February 12, 2024)
Content related to the education session Leverage Spreadsheets For Bookstore Success, Winter Institute 2024.
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Topic:
  • Bookselling Essentials
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  • 101
Description
During this session, we will explore various use cases and best practices for using spreadsheets in your bookstore. Whether you use Excel or Google Sheets, you will come away from this session with new ways to analyze, evaluate, and apply information. This session will provide an overview of the basics of spreadsheets and formulas, before delving into more advanced functionalities that are particularly useful for bookstores.
 
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Hannah Oliver Depp, Loyalty Bookstores - Washington, DC
Emma Kaas, The Norwich Bookstore - Norwich, VT
Beth Seufer Buss, Bookmarks - Winston-Salem, NC
Maddie Ciliotta-Young, Watchung Booksellers - Montclair, NJ
 
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Writing Standard Operating Procedures

Writing Standard Operating Procedures (February 12, 2024)
Content related to the education session Writing Standard Operating Procedures, Winter Institute 2024.
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Topic:
  • Bookselling Essentials
Tags:
  • 101
Description
Clearly defined systems save time and mental energy and can set clear expectations for everyone on a team which means great (consistent!) results. These systems are the start of any training program and can even help improve employer/employee communication and increase sales! Sounds great, right? But where do we start with defining these systems? We start with Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs). Join this session for practical education on writing and following SOPs for your store. Presented by ZingTrain.
 
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Arianna Téllez Léon, ZingTrain - Ann Arbor, MI
 
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Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Bookselling But Were Afraid to Ask

Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Bookselling But Were Afraid to Ask (February 12, 2024)
Content related to the education session Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Bookselling But Were Afraid to Ask, Winter Institute 2024.
Topic:
  • Bookselling Essentials
Tags:
  • 101
 
This information session hosted by the ABA team and your bookseller colleagues will answer questions like: What is Batch? What is license plate receiving? What are event grids? And more!  ABA will begin the discussion by reviewing industry opportunities you may not know about like RISE scholarships for booksellers and bookstore owners to visit international conferences and bookstores; Books Across Borders opportunities; the Professional Booksellers School; ABA opportunities like the Board, Nominating Committee, Audit Committee, Governance Committee, Indies Introduce, Education Task Force, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee, Booksellers Advisory Committee, ABA Children’s Group Advisory Council, etc. No question is too basic — come as you are and leave a little more enlightened!
 
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Christine Bollow, Loyalty Bookstores - Washington, DC
Tegan Tigani, Queen Anne Book Company - Seattle, WA
Camden Avery, Booksmith - San Francisco, CA
Ryan Quinn, American Booksellers Association
Joy Dallanegra-Sanger, American Booksellers Association
 
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Introduction to Book Fairs

Introduction to Book Fairs (February 12, 2024)
Content related to the education session Introduction to Book Fairs, Winter Institute 2024.
Topic:
  • Bookselling Essentials
Tags:
  • Children's Bookselling
 
In-person book fairs are a fantastic way to build relationships with your local schools and can be a profitable undertaking for a bookstore. If you’ve never done one before, knowing how to start is the first step to success. This session is for bookstores that are new to book fairs and will feature booksellers with established relationships with their local school districts. They will present how to build a realistic timeline for a book fair, manage people’s expectations based on a school’s needs, and create a checklist to ensure your fair goes off without a hitch. Presented by the ABA Children’s Group.
 
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Molly Olivo, Child’s Play - Washington, DC
Rebecca Crosswhite, Rediscovered Books - Boise, ID
Holly Weinkauf, Red Balloon Bookshop - Saint Paul, MN
 
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Opening Keynote with James Rhee: Goodwill Found. Goodwill Measured

Opening Keynote with James Rhee: Goodwill Found. Goodwill Measured (February 12, 2024)
Content related to the education session Opening Keynote with James Rhee: Goodwill Found. Goodwill Measured, Winter Institute 2024.
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Topic:
  • Bookselling Essentials
Tags:
  • 101
Using his seven years as the unlikely and heralded Chairman and CEO of Ashley Stewart, a business with deep roots in Black American communities, as the basis for his narrative, James Rhee weaves together a tapestry of ideas including humanism, neuroscience, race, economics, and capitalism to paint a picture of what is possible through the mutually reinforcing forces of kindness, math, and goodwill. His book, red helicopter, empowers readers to lead change in business and in life. As all booksellers know, what we read shapes our society, and James offers a simple path to a world that is at once kinder and more successful. As a long-time private equity investor, an educator as the Johnson Chair of Entrepreneurship at Howard University and Senior Lecture at MIT Sloan School of Management, and student of life, James implicitly and explicitly makes the case for a set of measurements that captures and scales what’s best in us. It is there, alongside a few financial and accounting formulas, where life, money, and joy can be valued.
 
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Introduction to Open Book Management

Introduction to Open Book Management (February 11, 2024)
Content related to the education session Introduction to Open Book Management, Winter Institute 2024.
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Topic:
  • Bookselling Essentials
Tags:
  • 101
Description
A radical approach to running a business, Open Book Management empowers everyone in an organization to actively participate in tracking metrics that directly contribute to business success. By tracking key numbers and learning the story behind the scoreboard results, employees get a real sense of how they directly impact the success of the business. Explore what Open Book Management is, why it works, and what it looks like in the day-to-day of your store. Presented by ZingTrain.
 
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Elnian Gilbert, ZingTrain - Ann Arbor, MI
 
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Human Resources Essentials for the Bookstore

Human Resources Essentials for the Bookstore (February 11, 2024)
Content related to the education session Human Resources Essentials for the Bookstore, Winter Institute 2024.
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Topic:
  • Bookselling Essentials
Tags:
  • 101
Description
It’s critical that owners and managers understand Human Resources (HR) practices. This three-hour seminar will be divided into three 45-minute segments with a ten minute break between each segment. In segment one, booksellers will receive a foundational understanding of what HR is, what it is not, and clarity on federal HR rules and regulations that are in place to protect a business. Segment two will provide booksellers with more specifics on HR hot-topics in the small business space including onboarding, employee record keeping, termination, communication and more. The seminar will conclude with a panel discussion with plenty of room for Q&A.
 
Speakers
Randy Egolf, Joseph-Beth Booksellers - Cincinnati, OH
Chonteau McElvin, Spiral Circle - Orlando, FL
Eileen McCormick, Green Apple Books - San Francisco, CA
Martin Patrick, GTM HR Consulting - Clifton Park, NY
 
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