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Everyday People Can Make Extraordinary Leaders

This guide provides extra resources to go along with the 2021-22 Employee Fellow for Leadership and Supervision.

General Leadership Courses

If you hit play, you will see one of the segments from the LinkedIn Learning Course, but to view the whole course, click on the link below to go into LinkedIn Learning to watch and get credit for going through the whole course.

Identify and address your blind spots from Becoming an Impactful and Influential Leader by Pete Mockaitis | How to Be Awesome at Your Job

Leadership Foundations is a great course to learn about many different types of leadership styles and models.  What you might notice as you go through the course is that, the 5 practices of exemplary leaders show up within many of the different leadership models.

What is leadership? from Leadership Foundations: Leadership Styles and Models by Alexander Lyon

The art and science of feedback from Giving and Receiving Feedback by Gemma Leigh Roberts

Become a powerful storyteller from Shane Snow on Storytelling by Shane Snow

I will warn everyone that Shane Snow really loves Star Wars, but he does go through the elements of effective storytelling, how to build and move your audience, and one of my favorite sections was the sludge report, which talks about taking wordy paragraphs and stories and making them succinct.  

The four building blocks: People from Communication Foundations by Tatiana Kolovou and Brenda Bailey-Hughes

The mindset choice from Cultivating a Growth Mindset by Gemma Leigh Roberts

Asking powerful questions from Creative Thinking Strategies for Leaders by Genein Letford and Madecraft

Beating the blame game from Creating Success from Failures by Madecraft and Audrey Daniels

How resilient are you? from Building Resilience by Tatiana Kolovou

The six resilience pillars from Building Resilience as a Leader by Gemma Leigh Roberts

Train your brain to be responsive and adaptive from Creative Collaboration by Denise Jacobs

Giving feedback up, down, and across from Leadership through Feedback by Madecraft and Linda Croyle

Celebrating with your team from Managing Teams by Daisy Lovelace

Maintaining safe spaces from Building Inclusive Work Communities by Joanne Simon-Walters and Madecraft

Making work fun from Management Tips by Todd Dewett