Effective leadership is at the heart of successful local governance. This section is designed to support councillors in developing the skills, confidence and insight needed to lead with purpose and impact.
Here, you'll find courses and resources that explore leadership within the context of public service. Whether you're new to your role or looking to deepen your leadership practice, this section offers learning resources to help you lead effectively.
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An introduction to public leadership
In this free course, you will learn more about leadership in the context of public service provision, by public sector organisations, community and voluntary groups, and political bodies.
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Collective Leadership
This free course, Collective leadership, will give you an insight into the importance of how to be a more effective leader, and how to better engage and work with ‘followers’ in an organisational setting.
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Empowered Communities
This free course, Empowering communities, discusses the most common forms of community empowerment, and explores the barriers to community empowerment and ways that these can be overcome.
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Political Ordering
This free course, Political ordering, asks questions about what states are and how they are involved in the processes of governing and ordering social life.
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Systems Thinking and Practice
This course will help you to learn about the problems of defining a system and meet some of the key concepts used in systems theory: boundary, environment, positive and negative feedback, etc.
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Hybrid working – skills for leadership
Hybrid working is here to stay, and more than ever you will need to understand how this makes your employees feel – and how it makes you feel.
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