Resources for Leadership and Management

Corporate Plan and Corporate Vision

• Corporate Plan
• How To Define Your Organisation's Values (external website)

Change

• Tools and Techniques for Change: A Leaders Handbook (external website)
• A Brief Introduction to Change Management (Paul Brown) (YouTube) (external website)
• Immunity to Change (Bob Kegan and Lisa Lahey) (Book recommendation)
• Kotter's 8-Step Change Model (external website)

Continuous improvement, innovation and creativity

• Academi Wales Continuous Improvement Programme (external website)
• Academi Wales Sowing Seeds - Continuous Improvement - Delivering better public services: Methodology and theory (external website)
• Leadership and Innovation (external website) (McKinsey and Company)
• 5 Ways Leaders Enable Innovation In Their Teams (external website)
• Creativity and the Role of the Leader (external website)
• Skills, attitudes and behaviours that fuel public innovation: A guide to getting the most from Nesta's Competency Framework for Experimenting and Public Problem Solving (external website)

Development of staff

• Academi Wales Sowing Seeds - Action Learning - The opportunity to engage in reflection (external website)
• Howard Gardners Multiple Intelligences (external website)
• Skills, attitudes and behaviours that fuel public innovation: A guide to getting the most from Nesta's Competency Framework for Experimenting and Public Problem Solving (external website)

Authentic leadership

• Academi Wales Sowing Seeds - Leadership and Organisational Transformation - Creating synergy between self and system (external website)
• Academi Wales - Sowing Seeds - Becoming a thought leader - Influencing Decisions, Thoughts and Behaviours to Achieve Results Through Others (external website)
• Authentic Leadership (external website)
• What's Authentic Leadership and how do you practice it? (external website)
• 5 Keys To Authentic Leadership (external website)
• Moral Leadership (external website)
• The Truth About Authentic Leaders (external website)
• True North for Emerging Leaders (external website)
• The Authenticity Paradox for Leaders - can we be our real selves? (external website)
• Authentic Leadership, Trust (in the Leader), and Flourishing: Does Precariousness Matter? (external website)
• To Elevate Your Leadership, Add Authenticity (external website)

Adaptive leadership

• Academi Wales Sowing Seeds - Adaptive Leadership - Embracing Chaos and Courage for Sustainable Change (external website)
• Adaptive Leadership: An introduction (external website)
• Skills, attitudes and behaviours that fuel public innovation: A guide to getting the most from Nesta's Competency Framework for Experimenting and Public Problem Solving (external website)

Interpersonal skills and emotional intelligence

• Self-Awareness (external website)
• Main Theories of Emotional and Social Intelligence (external website)
• Academi Wales Sowing Seeds - Engaged Leadership - The New Public Service Managerialism (external website)
• Academi Wales Sowing Seeds - Mindfulness - Using our personal resources for greater success (external website)
• Johari Window and improving self-awareness (external website)
• Active Listening (external website)
• The Crucial Role Emotions Play (external website)
• What is Psychological Safety? (external website)
• Emotional Intelligence Test (external website)

Commercial awareness

• Academi Wales - Sowing Seeds - Intelligent Collaboration - Working with others to make a difference (external website)
• Developing Commercial Awareness (external website)

Collaborative leadership

• Academi Wales - Sowing Seeds - Becoming a thought leader - Influencing Decisions, Thoughts and Behaviours to Achieve Results Through Others (external website)
• Collaborative Leadership White Paper (external website)
• Are you a Collaborative Leader? (external website)
• Inclusive Leaders (external website)

Resilience

• Academi Wales Sowing Seeds - Leadership in turbulent times - Developing a personal strategy to deal with difficult circumstances (external website)
• Academi Wales Sowing seeds - Understanding Mental Toughness - Sustain, support and stretch your resilience (external website)

Leadership blogs

Leadership blogs (external website)