Leadership Resources and Websites

Free Management Library, Carter McNamara, MBA, PhD http://managementhelp.org/leadership/index.htm 

Mason, F. & Wetherbee, L. (2004). Learning to Lead: An Analysis of Current Training Programs for Library Leadership. Library Trends, 53(1), 187-217. A summary of current library leadership training programs and a call for new focus in defining a broader leadership training agenda with a commonly defined list of tools and competencies. www.ideals.illinois.edu/bitstream/handle/2142/1723/Mason187217.pdf

Karin Wittenborg, Chris Ferguson, Michael A. Keller Reflecting on Leadership. (2003) Council on Library and Information Resources. http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub123/contents.html

Defense Logistics Agency, Distributed Learning Training. Definitions of OPM Leadership Competencies. http://www.dtc.dla.mil/wfd/ldrshpdv/2.htm

Texas Leadership Institute and sample curriculum topics

Organizational Management Resources - from NonProfit Good Practices

Effective Capacity Building in Nonprofit Organizations Prepared by McKinsey & Company Published for VPP August 2001

Leadership Evaluation/Assessment

Center for Creative Leadership. Assessment Resources. http://www.ccl.org/leadership/assessments/index.aspx?pageId=58

Development Guild/DDI Inc. for the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. Evaluating Outcomes and Impacts: A Scan of 55 Leadership Development Programs. See excellent list of outcome indicators in Appendices D-H, pages 35-40. http://www.wkkf.org/knowledge-center/resources/2006/08/Evaluating-Outcomes-And-Impacts-A-Scan-Of-55-Leadership-Development-Programs.aspx

Martineau, J., (2004) Laying the Groundwork first steps in evaluating Leadership Development. LIA, 23 (6) http://media.wiley.com/assets/251/05/jrnls_LIA_JB_Martineau2306.pdf

From Education Leadership Toolkit: A free leadership self-assessment online technology resource for school board members (A project of the National School Boards Foundation implemented by NSBA's Institute for the Transfer of Technology to Education with a grant from the National Science Foundation). http://www.nsba.org/sbot/toolkit/LeadSA.html

Organizations

Center for Creative Leadership http://www.ccl.org/leadership/index.aspx

Capacity.org

Development Guild/DDI http://www.developmentguild.com/indexf.html

Ford Family Foundation Leadership Program http://www.tfff.org/Institute/TheFordInstituteLeadershipProgram/tabid/89/Default.aspx

International Leadership Organization http://www.ila-net.org/

Leader to Leader Institute (Peter F. Drucker Foundation) http://leadertoleader.org/

Leadership Learning Community http://leadershiplearning.org/

LeaderValues http://www.leader-values.com/default.asp

Oxford Centre for Leadership oxcel.org/index.html

Library Leadership Institutes

• Eureka! Leadership Program: Discover the Leader Within - California State Library, in partnership with Infopeople
• Florida Library Leadership Program
• Iowa Library Association Leadership Institute
• Maryland Library Leadership Institute
• Mountain Plains Library Association Leadership Institute
• New England Library Leadership Symposium
• New York Library Association's Library Leadership and Management Academy
• Pacific Northwest Library Association (PNLA) Leadership Institute
• Texas Library Association Leadership Development Institute
• Wyoming Library Leadership Institute