Leadership Links
Directory
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| Leadership Theory | Student Conferences | Leadership Blogs |
| Topics & Resources | Centers & Organizations | Academic Insitutes & Programs |
| Newsletters & E-zines | Journals & Publications | Professional Associations |
Leadership Theory
Chaos Thinksite: For those interested in exploring chaos theory and the "chaordic" or self-organizing theory of leadership.
Classical Models of Leadership: A helpful overview of traditional leadership theories from Infed.
Eight Major Leadership Theories: A one-page summary from About.com.
Guide to Leadership Skill Information: A concise summary of leadership theories and styles from Money-zine.com.
Leadership Theories: A short summary of leadership theories from North Georgia College and State University.
Overview of Leadership in Organizations: Entries on leadership and management from the Free Management Library.
Shared Leadership: A helpful overview of informal leadership theories from Infed.
The Art and Science of Leadership: Don Clark’s very helpful site that includes many chapters on leadership theory and topics.
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Leadership Topics & Resources
Active Reviewing Guide: Roger Greenaway’s excellent site on active learning and debriefing methods. Very helpful for group activitities and team building.
America’s Best Leaders: Profiles of great contemporary American leaders from U.S. News & World Report.
Building Dynamic Groups: A helpful collection of group activities for visioning, team-building, communication, assessment, collaboration, ice-breaking and assessment.
Businessballs: Free business training materials and resources, including sections on leadership theories, gurus and models, team-building exercises and group process, and personal discovery and development.
Changing Minds: An encyclopedic approach to how we change what others think, believe, feel and do. Includes a full section on leadership.
Christian Leadership World: Includes short articles on a variety of leadership topics from a Christian perspective.
Goal Setting for Everyone: An informative and interactive site that helps you set and manage life goals.
Goals Guy: Goal setting, personal development, and motivational self-help. Check out the Knowledge Center for goal-setting tips, techniques, and ideas.
Hints and Tips on Making Mentoring Work: A helpful PDF document on mentoring.
Leader Values: Boasts "the widest collection of free resources on the web," including over 2000 searchable leadership themes, links, magazine articles, books and quotations, as well as a leadership glossary.
Leadership Handout Series: Help sheets on various leadership topics from Miami University of Ohio.
Leadership Now: A comprehensive leadership site that includes articles, quotes, book reviews, a blog and free newsletter.
Mind Tools: Includes articles on stress and time management, communication and planning skills, as well as problem solving and analytical techniques.
Parliamentary Procedure Online: A tutorial for those who wish to learn more about parliamentary procedure.
Roberts Rules of Order: The official companion site to the 10th edition of Roberts Rules of Order Newly Revised.
Roberts Rules Online: The complete text of the 4th edition online.
Self Growth: The "Online Self-Improvement Encyclopedia" with articles written by experts on a wide range of self-help topics from dieting to relationships to success skills.
The Leaders Institute Resource Page: Contains free leadership and team-building tips.
Leadership Newsletters & E-zines
Catalyst Monthly: John Maxwell's newsletter for young adult leaders.
Communique: LeadershipNow’s newsletter.
Compass Magazine: A semi-annual publication of the John F. Kennedy School of Government’s Center for Public Leadership (Harvard University).
Foundations Magazine: Presents ideas to build your life on. This publication lays down the basic building blocks of a successful person.
Leadership Wired: John Maxwell’s monthly newsletter.
Leader to Leader: A quarterly journal of articles published by Peter Drucker's Leader to Leader Institute.
Leading Effectively: The Center for Creative Leadership’s monthly newsletter.
Student Leader Magazine: The publication of the American Student Government Association.
Wharton Leadership Digest: An online periodical from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton Center for Leadership and Change Management.
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Student Leadership Conferences
Catalyst: A three-day annual Christian leadership conference for Next Generation Leaders. Undergraduate and graduate credit available.
Converge Atlanta: A two-week immersion-style Christian leadership conference organized by Tim Elmore’s Growing Leaders organization.
Habitudes Experience: A one-day Christian leadership conference brought to your campus by Tim Elmore’s Growing Leaders organization.
LeaderShape: A leading training organization for college student leaders that offers a six-day training seminar.
National Conference on Student Leadership: Offers fall and spring Conferences for college student leaders, as well as the Certified Student Leader Program.
TrueWind: A Seventh-day Adventist leadership development organization that holds an annual conference for young leaders.
Leadership Centers & Organizations
American Student Government Association: A nationwide organization serving student governments and leaders.
Campus Compact: "A national coalition of nearly 1,100 college and university presidents - representing some 6 million students - dedicated to promoting community service, civic engagement and service-learning in higher education."
Catalyst Space: John Maxwell's site for young adult, "next generation" leaders.
Center for Ethical Leadership: Promotes integrity and working together for the common good, including the concept of creating "Gracious Space."
Center for Leader Development: Includes blogs and a wiki that sets out to be "the world’s #1 resource for leadership development."
Do Something: A great site that promotes youth action and projects on a wide range of social, environmental and community causes.
Emerging Leaders: Offers summer internship and leadership development opportunities for students with disabilities.
Essence Cares: A national mentoring movement calling for more than one million mentors for children and youth in the black community. As featured on the Oprah Winfrey Show.
Greenleaf Center for Servant-Leadership: A non-profit organization founded by Robert Greenleaf in 1964 to promote the principles and practice of servant-leadership.
Growing Leaders: Tim Elmore’s organization dedicated to developing young leaders. Site includes a number of free articles and resources for sale.
Injoy: John Maxwell's leadership organization and its extended "brands" includes resources and support for young adult and women leaders, as well as leaders in the work place and professional ministry.
Josephson Institute of Ethics: Aims to teach personal and organizational ethics and decision-making skills. Includes a link to its Character Counts curriculum for youth, and a step-by-step guide to "Making Ethical Decisions."
Leader to Leader Institute: Peter Drucker’s organization with a mission "to strengthen the leadership of the social sector."
Leadership Online: Initiatives and resources from the W. K. Kellogg Foundation, a key supporter of leadership development.
Mentor: Connects children with adult mentors. Includes information about how to become a mentor and a searchable database of opportunities nationwide.
National Clearinghouse for Leadership Programs: Supports leadership development for college students by offering resources and professional development for leadership educators. Home of the Multi-Institutional Study of Leadership.
National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS): "The premier teacher of outdoor skills and leadership, offers courses 10 days to full semesters in the world's most spectacular wilderness classrooms."
Organizational Leadership Assessment: Jim Laub's servant-leadership organization. Laub has expanded on Greenleaf’s work. See the Concepts section for helpful models and descriptions of servant-leadership.
Points of Light Foundation & Volunteer Center National Network: Resources for volunteers and those who lead them. Includes a searchable database of volunteer centers across America.
Programs for the Theological Exploration of Vocation: Details programs and resources emanating from a Lilly Endowment initiative to help college students discover their purpose and calling.
Sojourners: A Christian group whose mission is "to articulate the biblical call to social justice, inspiring hope and building a movement to transform individuals, communities, the church and the world."
The Center for Creative Leadership: A leading nonprofit institution dedicated to providing innovative training, coaching, assessment and publishing for leaders and organizations around the world.
The Extra Mile - Points of Light Volunteer Pathway: A new national monument in the nation’s capital that honors the spirit of volunteerism in America. Site includes biographies of the first twenty honored leaders.
The Leadership Challenge: Kouzes and Posner’s support site for their widely-read book, The Leadership Challenge.
The Micah Challenge: An international Christian campaign to cut global poverty in half by 2015. Canadian site.
Tolerance.org: A project of the Southern Poverty Law Center to "Fight Hate and Promote Tolerance." Includes a guide, Ten Ways to Fight Hate on Campus.
Volunteer Match: A national posting database for volunteers. Allows volunteers to search for opportunities, and non-profits to search for volunteers. Search by zip code, distance and interest area.
Youth Action Net: A site that connects youth to create change. Offers the opportunity to build your own project website.
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Leadership Journals & Publications
Advancing Women in Leadership: An online, refereed journal for women in leadership.
Kellogg Leadership Studies Project Working Papers: Includes full-text papers on such subjects as "Ethics and Leadership," "Leadership and Followership," "Transformational Leadership," "Citizen Leadership," and "Leadership in the 21st Century."
Leadership Reconsidered: Engaging Higher Education in Social Change: Alexander and Helen Astin’s important work on the role of higher education in modeling and developing leadership for soical change.
International Journal of Leadership Studies: An online refereed journal sponsored by the Regent University School of Global Leadership and Entrepreneurship
Journal of Leadership Education: An international, refereed journal for those engaged in leadership education from the Association of Leadership Educators.
Leadership Blogs
CEO Blog - Time Leadership by Jim Estill
Dispatches from the New World of Work by Tom Peters
Extreme Leadership by Steve Farber
Leadership Turn by Jonathan Farrington
Leading Blog by Michael McKinney
Management Craft by Lisa Haneberg
Mick’s Leadership Blog by Mick Yates
Pursuing Leadership by Denny Roberts
Slow Leadership by Carmine Coyote
Talking Story by Rosa Say
Academic Leadership Centers & Programs
Bernard P. McDonough Center for Leadership and Business (Marietta College)
Center for Public Leadership (Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government)
Center for Life Calling and Leadership (Indiana Wesleyan University)
Center for Women’s Leadership (Babson College)
Department of Leadership Studies (Fort Hayes State University)
Franklin College Leadership Center (Franklin College, IN)
Harry T. Wilkes Leadership Institute (Miami University of Ohio)
Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs (University of Minnesota)
Illinois Leadership (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
James MacGregor Burns Academy of Leadership (University of Maryland)
Jepson School of Leadership Studies (University of Richmond)
Miami’s Leadership Commitment (Miami University of Ohio)
School of Global Leadership and Entrepreneurship (Regent University)
Wharton Leadership Center (University of Pennsylvania)
Professional Leadership Associations
Association of Leadership Educators
International Leadership Assocation