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Contents

London Leadership Academy Leadership Toolkit
Accippio eLeadership Academy
Businessballs Topics (selected)
NHS [Leadership Learning] Academy
Open Learn [UK Open University] Learning and Management Courses
Prosci's Change Management Webinars
LinkedIn Learning Platform [ for Auckland, NZ]
Resources freely available from the Centre for Creative Leadership
Resources freely available from the King's Fund
More Leadership Resources
Leadership Videos, Blogs and Podcasts

London Leadership Academy Leadership Toolkit

Managing self / Personal effectiveness

Accippio eLeadership Academy
The eLeadership Academy is a free resource aimed at giving you internationally recognised qualifications for leadership and management content you read online. We have converted the brilliant, yet static, content from *BusinessBalls into engaging and interactive eLearning modules with voice-overs and quizzes to enable us to accredit learning.  * Businessballs is a free ethical learning and development resource for people and organisations.  It includes resources to support personal development, leadership and management.

eCourses

• Leadership
• Personal Effectiveness
• Building & Leading Teams
• Strategy Development & Planning
• Performance Management
• Leading & Managing Change

Featured eModules

• 10 Leadership Behaviours
• Personality
• VAK Learning Styles
• Five Dysfunctions of a Team
• Group Formation
• Leading Change

Businessballs Topics (selected)

Leadership / management

• corporate responsibility and ethics
• david mcclelland - achievement motivation
• john adair's action-centred leadership
• adams' equity theory on job motivation
• adizes ten stages - corporate life cycle model
• benziger personality assessment model
• conscious competence learning model
• corporate governance
• decision-making and problem-solving
• change and innovation decision-making template
• delegation - how to
• employee motivation and staff motivation surveys
• kaizen
• tuckman forming storming norming performing model, situational leadership®
• frederick herzberg - motivation theory
• gung ho!® - ken blanchard's organizational development system
• albert humphrey's tam® business change model
• charles handy - motivation calculus
• in search of excellence model - tom peters
• leadership tips
• leadership theories
• love and spirituality in management and business
• kolb's learning styles
• kotter's change model
• motivational case study exercise
• motivational theory and ideas
• maslow's hierarchy of needs
• nudge theory
• organizational change, training and learning
• pareto's 80-20 rule theory
• people performance potential model
• performance management
• project sponsorship
• the psychological contract
• six sigma® - definitions, history, overview
• quality management, history, gurus, TQM, process improvement, etc
• training certificate template
• mcgregor x-y theory, william ouchi - theory z

Business

• business plan or operational plan template
• business planning and marketing strategy - how to write, boston matrix, ansoff product-market matrix
• business process modelling
• business strategy implementation and realisation
• continuity and contingency management
• CRM - customer relationship management
• customer service - code of practice and role development
• environmental management and resources efficiency
• market development process for developing sales - new business and new markets
• negotiation - how to
• networking
• nudge theory
• project management skills and technique
• service contracts and supply agreements template and tips
• sostac® - pr smith's business marketing planning system
• swot analysis - free template and examples
• pest market analysis - free template
• porter's five forces of competitive position

Human resources

• age diversity and age discrimination
• performance appraisals - process and appraisals form template, 360 degree appraisals tips and templates
• bloom's taxonomy of learning domains
• employment termination, dismissal, redundancy, letters templates and style, grievance procedures letters samples for employees
• exit interviews, questions examples, tips
• induction training checklist, template and tips
• job interviews - tips, techniques, questions, answers, group selection recruitment method
• job descriptions, writing templates and examples
• multiple intelligences - howard gardner's theory and the VAK learning styles inventory
• nvq's - national vocational qualifications
• the psychological contract
• resolving employment disputes
• team briefing process
• training evaluation processes
• training and developing people - how to
• training and development policy/manual template
• HR performance evaluation, kirkpatrick's learning evaluation model

Writing / communicating

• body language
• code of practice sample
• responding to customer complaints
• writing effective job adverts
• writing a reference letter
• writing technique - general

 

Self / personal development

• abstract images for feelings, challenge and change
• assertiveness techniques and self-confidence
• campling's aspects of the work psyche
• career/business direction planner
• charisma - definitions, elements, development
• cherie carter-scott's rules of life
• clean language - david grove questioning method
• coaching - life coaching and personal coaching
• cybernetics - science of communications and control within systems
• dating and matchmaking
• emergent knowledge
• emotional freedom techniques (EFT)
• emotional intelligence (EQ)
• empathy
• erikson's psychosocial theory of human development
• experiential learning
• fantasticat - ideas for developing, teaching and learning
• the four agreements - don miguel ruiz
• goal planning
• hard questions for an authentic life - susan piver
• johari window model and free diagrams
• life balance
• pay rises and salary increases
• personal change stages - john fisher
• personality theories and types - jung, myers briggs®, keirsey, belbin, etc
• personality tests
• the seven habits of highly effective people®
• transactional analysis - eric berne - early theory
• transactional analysis - eric berne - recent theory
• mehrabian's communication theory - verbal, non-verbal, body language
• personal development - modern integrated methods
• personal development - excellent BBC books series
• reflective diary template - sharon drew morgen edition (msword) or (pdf)
• singing - for personal and group development
• stress and stress management
• time management tips
• time management techniques, free tools and templates
• "I am" - a script for self-help and personal change
• workplace well-being

 

NHS [Leadership] Learning Academy
A range of tools, models, programmes and expertise to support individuals, organisations and local academies to develop leaders, celebrating and sharing where outstanding leadership makes a real difference.
 see also The Edward Jenner Programme
The Edward Jenner programme builds a strong foundation of leadership skills that can help enhance your confidence and competence in your role. The programme will support you as you develop essential leadership skills; open to all, this programme leads to an NHS Leadership Academy award in Leadership Foundations.  The first two components of the programme - Launch and Foundation are free and open to global participants.

Open Learn [UK Open University] Leadership and Management Courses

• Understanding operations management
• Management: perspective and practice
• Discovering management
• Project management: the start of the project journey
  
  

Prosci's Change Management Webinars
An excellent, free resource for staying up to date with Best Practices and learning from change practitioners in other organisations.

LinkedIn Learning Platform [ for Auckland, NZ]
Auckland libraries membership now gives you free online unlimited access to video courses and tutorials from industry experts provided through LinkedIn's online training platform lynda.com. Over 5,800 courses and 256,000 tutorials on everything from business and management to IT and creative design.

Topics Includes:

• Collaboration (56)
• Communication (134)
  
• Finance (48)
• Leadership (90)
• Management (115)
• Productivity (177)
• Project Management (70)
  
• Social Networks (28)  

 

Resources freely available from the Centre for Creative Leadership 

 

Collaborative Healthcare Leadership: A Six-Part Model for Adapting & Thriving during A Time of Transformative Change 

Developing a Leadership Strategy: A Critical Ingredient for Organizational Success 

Navigating Change: A Leader's Role 

Innovation: How Leadership Makes the Difference 

Understanding the Leadership Challenges of First-Time Managers 

Networks: How Collective Leadership Really Works 

Transformational Change: An Ecosystem Approach 

"It's Not About Me. It's Me & You.": How being Dumped can Help First-Time Managers 

Change-Capable Leadership: The Real Power Propelling Successful Change

 

Resources freely available from the King's Fund

 

Cascading Leadership: a new model to support leadership in the voluntary and community sector

Leading across the health and care system: lessons from experience

 

Caring to change: How compassionate leadership can stimulate innovation in health care | King's Fund

 

Delivering a Collective Leadership Strategy for Healthcare

Leadership and Leadership Development in Healthcare: the Evidence Base

Leadership for Patient Engagement

Patient-Centred Leadership: Rediscovering Our Purpose

The Practice of System Leadership: Being Comfortable with Chaos

 

More leadership resources

 

100 Māori Leaders
This resource identifies Māori leaders of today who influence and contribute to Māori health and wellbeing. It identifies Māori at the top of health career pathways, to inspire the Māori health workforce and generate interest from others to look at careers in health. Māori and other leaders were approached to write kōrero awhi (kind words) about the leadership qualities of living Māori leader. 100 Māori leaders resource will link to other information about our leaders and about education, training and roles in health and wellbeing. New profiles will be added and older ones archived.
 

Healthcare Leadership Model: the Nine Dimensions of Leadership Behaviour [NHS Leadership Academy]

Leading Networks in Healthcare [Health Foundation]

 

Harvard Business Review Leadership Development resources

 

Strategy& Thought Leadership
Articles on key topics in the area of people and organization strategy.

Modelling Māori leadership: What makes for good leadership?

 

Leadership in Aotearoa New Zealand: A cross-cultural study

 

Take me to your leader: hospital collaboration in the NHS [ KPMG; 2016]

 

"How to Be a Charismatic Leader" [UCL; 2019]

 

 

 

 

Leadership videos, blogs and podcasts [selected]

Flipboard: Leadership
Aggregated content from social media, news feeds, photo sharing sites and other websites, presented in magazine format

Ted Talks: LeadershipWhat makes a great leader? These TED Talks -- from soldiers and psychologists, athletes and entrepreneurs -- share hard-won wisdom on leadership.

Harvard Business Review IdeaCast – A weekly podcast that discusses the latest business trends.  This podcast discusses lessons learned from leadership successes and failures.  It does not focus only on leadership, but on business as a whole.

Stanford Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Podcast Series
Browsible by topic: leadership ; innovation ; culture ; entrepreneurship ; life balance ; etcetera

15 podcast episodes that will make you a better leader

Best 21st Century Leadership Blogs
This excellent curated collection of bloggers arranged by theme also includes link to the bloggers twitter and facebook.

Leadership Freak: Empowering Leaders 300 words at a Time / Dan Rockwell

 

 

 

 last updated 12 February 2024