Public Leadership Toolkit
This page is a great place to start exploring GovLeaders.org, whether you want to be more systematic about learning to lead or are just starting your leadership journey.
Find Out:
- How Leaders Learn to Lead
Learn about the types of experiences and activities that will be most useful to include in your leadership development action plan.
Make:
- A Leadership Development Action Plan
Worksheets and other resources to help you map out your leadership development action plan.
Cultivate:
- Self-Awareness
Recommended self-assessment tools, tips on receiving--and dealing with--feedback, and why self-awareness is so important. - Resilience
Learn how to survive--and bounce back from--set-backs, hardships, and trauma. - Personal Effectiveness
Resources to help you be more productive and disciplined--regardless of your rank.
Learn Core Supervisory Skills:
Failure to master the core supervisory skills below can undermine your effectiveness as a leader and hobble your organization. These skills serve as the foundation on which other leadership skills rest.- Delegation
If you are too busy for your people you may need to sharpen your delegation skills. - Giving Feedback
Giving effective feedback is a fundamental to prerequisite for managing the performance of your team. There is a simple formula for doing it well and it gets easier with practice. - Motivating Your Team
Supervisors have a huge impact on employee motivation. Learn how to create a climate that will get your team excited about coming to work. - Meeting Management
It's important to learn how to run meetings effectively because your colleagues' time is a terrible thing to waste. - Hiring (and Firing)
As a supervisor, you will make few decisions that are more important to your organization than who to bring onto--or remove from--your team. - Making Decisions
Leaders in government often make decisions with significant repercussions, so it is important to learn to make good decisions while getting buy-in from those who will have to implement them.
