• Resources


    In this section you can find various resources, including questionnaires, articles and links which will help you to develop your capacity to motivate and lead others.

    • Making decisions URL
      This Open Learn (Open University) module covers a range of key topics designed to help the learner to think broadly about how we go about making decisions, and aims to help the learner develop a greater insight into both our own decision making processes and the processes others employ.
    • Are you a good role model? URL

      Author Steve Macaulay of the Cranfield University School of Management (USA) discusses the characteristics of successful role models and modelling.

    • Promoting creativity through the Curriculum for Excellence URL
      Eric Booth, a leading expressive arts and education consultant from the USA, speaks up the ‘creative potential’ behind the Curriculum for Excellence at a Good Practice Conference organised by Her Majesty’s Inspectorate for Education (HMIE), Learning and Teaching Scotland (LTS) and the Scottish Arts Council (SAC) in November 2009.

    • Social Intelligence and Leadership

      Harvard Business School Interview with Daniel Goleman, author of Emotional Intelligence at Work, discussing the:

      • relationship between emotional and social intelligence, and the
      • Role of emotional and social intelligence in developing personal leadership and improving organization's performance.

      Goleman argues that successful leaders are socially intelligent communicators, and that these are skills we can develop.

    • The importance of interpersonal skills URL

      Success in management requires interpersonal skills to understand and be able to deal effectively with other people.

    • What makes a great leader?

      Deepak Chopra, perhaps better known for his work on matters of the Mind, Body and Spirit, speaks about his book, The Soul of Leadership in which Chopra discusses the importance - in businesses and organisations as well as society in general - of self-awareness, effective self-management and the ability to effectively manage our relationships.


      The surprising truth about what motivates us

      Dan Pink the narrator offers a compelling perspective (backed up with evidence), contrasting external motivators - like pay and other ‘rewards’ - with our internal motivations,  for what we do.  Produced by the RSA (Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce) and presented from a business perspective, the ideas Pink discusses have universal application

    • What motivates you? Self-Determination Theory explained URL
      In this article experimental psychologists Edward Deci and Richard Ryan discuss their work – described by Dan Pink as "an absolute treasure trove of research on human motivation"
    • Developing people – training and learning, coaching and mentoring URL

      In this article, the discussion is broken down into bite-sized chunks, with lots of links to other complementary reading on the site.

    • National Standards for Community Engagement URL

      The National Standards for Community Engagement set out best practice guidance for engagement between communities and public agencies.

    • How to play the LEAP Game File 49.5KB Word document
      In 2010 Perth and Kinross Council’s Education and Children’s Services wanted to improve its planning and evaluation processes within its CLD teams. The Service initiated the 5.10 project whose planned outputs included a toolkit for practitioners and a peer led training programme. As part of the toolkit 'The LEAP Game' was a resource created as a way of supporting staff to increase their understanding of the relationship between outputs, outcomes and outcome indicators.
    • The LEAP Game File 153KB Publisher document
      Perth and Kinross Council’s Education and Children’s Services initiated the 5.10 project whose planned outputs included a toolkit for practitioners and a peer led training programme. As part of the toolkit 'The LEAP Game' was a resource created as a way of supporting staff to increase their understanding of the relationship between outputs, outcomes and outcome indicators.
    • Development impact and you URL
      This DIY Toolkit has been specially designed for development practitioners to invent, adopt or adapt ideas that can deliver better results
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