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Leadership
Materials useful to the development of leaders (whether paid or volunteer) in any assignment and with any type of "followers."
Also see All-Volunteer Group Leadership and Boards of Directors
Books
on this topic
Articles and excerpts on this subject
- Decision Making in Small Groups from Leading Small Groups
- How to Hit Your Members' Hot Buttons, from the book How to Turn Generation Me into Active Members of Your Association
- Leading Volunteer Projects by Jeffrey Bennett Platinum Quality Author
- Leading Volunteers by Nancy Beach (fouces on religious settings)
- What Do We Mean by Leadership? by Marlene Wilson
Free electronic books on this subject:
Leadership
Basics: A Guide to Leading Groups of Volunteers
http://www.ontarionature.org/PDFs/leadership.pdf
Developed for conservation
volunteer leaders who are responsible for leading groups of other
volunteers, by the Federation of Ontario Naturalists (60-pg. PDF).
Volunteers as Leaders
http://www.handsonnetwork.org/files/resources/GB_VolunteersAsLeaders_2010_HON.pdf
39-pg PDF from HandsOn Network on developing volunteer leadership.
Web sites with information on this subject
ASAE Center for Leadership
http://www.asaecenter.org/
Materials from the American Society of Association Executives on many leadership topics. Click through to areas such as the Knowledge Center, Case Studies, and other resource collections.
Fieldstone Alliance - Free Resources
http://www.fieldstonealliance.org/client/tools.cfm
This consulting, publishing, training, and research organization is focused on strong nonprofit performance. In this area of the site are articles and tools on various subjects, including boards, management and finance.
Leader Values
http://www.leader-values.com/
One of the widest collections of free resources available on the Web on the subject of leadership – searchable themes, links, articles, quotations, and a glossary.
Leadership Development Planning
http://www.managementhelp.org/ldr_dev/ldr_dev.htm
Section of Carter MacNamara’s extensive site for nonprofits, with many valuable articles, references, and links.
Leadership Now
http://www.leadershipnow.com/
Site focused on encouraging everyone to see their leadership potential.
Mission-Based Management
http://www.missionbased.com
Web site of Peter Brinckerhoff, best-selling author on mission-based management, which includes a section called “Free Stuff” offering articles, self-assessment tools, and other useful resources. Peter’s newest book, Nonprofit Stewardship: A Better Way To Lead Your Mission-Based Organization, is clearly on-topic, too.
National School Boards Foundation Toolkit – Section on Professional and Leadership Development
http://www.nsba.org/sbot/toolkit/PandLDev.html
Tools for identifying and developing leadership styles.
Your Field Guide to Community Building
http://www.heartlandcenter.info/fieldguide/
A variety of resources to help leadership volunteers “navigate through what may sometimes seem like a minefield of interpersonal and political relationships.” From the Heartland Center for Leadership Development
Relevant Hot Topic essays
- I'll help with that, but don’t ask me to lead it! - Apr '07
- The Great Divide: Leaders Who Are Paid and Leaders Who Are Volunteers - Oct '02
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