{"id":492,"date":"2017-10-22T17:08:57","date_gmt":"2017-10-22T22:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.jeanbaur.com\/?p=492"},"modified":"2017-10-22T17:08:57","modified_gmt":"2017-10-22T22:08:57","slug":"what-do-library-workers-and-assisted-living-professionals-have-in-common","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/?p=492","title":{"rendered":"WHAT DO LIBRARY WORKERS AND ASSISTED LIVING PROFESSIONALS HAVE IN COMMON?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes we learn things from proximity. In the past few weeks I&#8217;ve been on the road&#8211;out to Lancaster, PA for a wonderful conference of the Pennsylvania Assisted Living Association with my dog, Bella, and then back in Connecticut for a session on customer service for library professionals. As I was thinking about it, the two have a lot in common.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the easy similarities: both categories involve non-stop requests at work, both deal with deep issues that affect our communities such as poverty, disabilities, aging, etc., and of course both are at the heart of our communities.<\/p>\n<p>Here are a few things from each session that might be helpful to everyone.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Nonverbal support is powerful (this is one of the many reasons why therapy dogs are so effective)<\/li>\n<li>Information opens doors<\/li>\n<li>You can&#8217;t fake patience or kindness<\/li>\n<li>You must take good care of yourself if you&#8217;re going to be effective in caring for others<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;No&#8221; is a wonderful word&#8211;just be careful how you say it<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/HUMOR.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-493\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-493\" src=\"http:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/HUMOR-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"HUMOR\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/HUMOR-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/HUMOR.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Humor is really important, too. There&#8217;s something about these two dogs that cracks me up!<\/li>\n<li>Take advantage of your co-workers. They may be better at something that you&#8217;re struggling with. Team up and learn from each other.<\/li>\n<li>Use mini-breaks to refresh yourself and regain perspective.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It was a long ride home after the conference in Lancaster. Bella didn&#8217;t mind&#8211;she slept for the six hours. It&#8217;s a tough job being a dog!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes we learn things from proximity. In the past few weeks I&#8217;ve been on the road&#8211;out to Lancaster, PA for a wonderful conference of the Pennsylvania&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jean"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2j73q-7W","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=492"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":494,"href":"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492\/revisions\/494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}