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Public Leadership Toolkit

 

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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:


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 probably 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.