Leadership is the ability to influence people by demonstrating positive personal attributes and behaviours. Different leadership styles and qualities may be needed in different circumstances. Here you’ll find information on leadership styles and skills, effective leaders, transformational leadership, and leading teams.
Leadership
Explore our resources on leadership and ensure that everyone in your organisation is connected to - and driven by - a common goal
Factsheets
Factsheets
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Leadership in the workplace
Understand the fundamentals of leadership and how to approach leadership development within the organisation
Podcasts
Podcasts
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Barriers to leadership
Episode 87: Does your organisation have the leaders it needs? Experts from CIPD, BBC and Xerox discuss the barrier to leadership and how HR can overcome them.
Podcasts
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Dan Pink on leadership - ACE special
Author and business speaker Dan Pink gives his insights on what good leadership looks like and how companies can help to cultivate good leadership practices.
Reports
Reports
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Purposeful leadership
This report conceptualises a construct of purposeful leadership and investigates the impact it has on various employee and organisational outcomes
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Inclusive leadership
Research, commissioned by the Employers Network for Equality & Inclusion (enei), looks at how organisations understand inclusive leadership
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Experiencing trustworthy leadership
Examines how followers experience trustworthy senior leaders within the context of practice, process, actions and behaviours
Reports
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Tackling the barriers to leadership
An exploration of the systemic barriers to leadership illustrated through case studies
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Leadership – easier said than done
Explores the capacity of individuals at all levels of an organisation to buy into and lead on the organisational agenda
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Effective leadership and management in SMEs
Examines what organisational transitions mean for leadership and management in the SME context
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Cultivating trustworthy leaders
Examines the HR systems and processes in organisations that cultivate trustworthy leaders
Reports
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Real-life leaders: closing the knowing-doing gap
Opens the debate on the barriers preventing organisations from getting closer to effective leadership
Reports
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Perspectives on leadership: implications for HR
An exploration of leadership perspectives in 2012
Surveys
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UK highlights: global leadership forecast
Examines the status of leadership and leadership development within the UK business community