--- title: Leadership Development description: Leadership development focuses on cultivating the core skills, behaviors, and mindsets required to guide organizations. Learners will understand how to assess their own leadership style, manage organizational change, and mentor future leaders. category: personal-development subcategory: leadership difficulty: beginner, intermediate, advanced url: /subject/leadership-development --- # Leadership Development Leadership development focuses on cultivating the core skills, behaviors, and mindsets required to guide organizations. Learners will understand how to assess their own leadership style, manage organizational change, and mentor future leaders. ## Available Resources 4 Videos • 3 Courses • 5 Websites ## Websites ### 1. Center for Creative Leadership Nonprofit leadership development institute that publishes research-based articles, guides and webinars on feedback, resilience, leading change and leadership at different organizational levels. Readers gain evidence-backed frameworks, such as the Situation-Behavior-Impact feedback model, for developing themselves and others. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.ccl.org/ **Tags:** leadership, leadership-development, feedback, management-research ### 2. Harvard Business Review - Leadership Harvard Business Review's leadership topic page, collecting articles, essays and podcasts by researchers and executives on managing teams, influence, decision-making and organizational change. Readers can follow current management research and apply it to their own practice; many articles sit behind a metered paywall. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://hbr.org/topic/leadership **Tags:** leadership, management, organizational-behavior, business-research ### 3. brenebrown.com Brené Brown's site provides research-based insights on vulnerability, courage, resilience, and leadership. It features articles, books, talks, podcasts, and online courses (such as Dare to Lead) to help you build grit and courageous, wholehearted living. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://brenebrown.com **Tags:** websites, business-entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship ### 4. hbr.org Harvard Business Review (hbr.org) offers research-based articles, case studies, and practical guidance on leadership, strategy, and organizational performance for managers and executives. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://hbr.org **Tags:** websites, business-entrepreneurship, business-fundamentals ### 5. mindtools.com Mind Tools offers practical business and management resources—articles, templates, checklists, and self-assessments—covering business communication, leadership, teamwork, meetings, and professional writing. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://mindtools.com **Tags:** websites, business-entrepreneurship, business-fundamentals ## Videos ### 1. The Puzzle of Motivation - Dan Pink TED talk in which Dan Pink contrasts behavioral science research on incentives with common business practice, arguing that contingent rewards can impair performance on creative tasks. Viewers understand why autonomy, mastery and purpose often motivate knowledge workers better than bonuses. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrkrvAUbU9Y **Tags:** motivation, leadership, incentives, behavioral-science ### 2. How Great Leaders Inspire Action Simon Sinek's TEDx Puget Sound talk introducing the Golden Circle: why, how, what. Uses examples such as Apple and Martin Luther King Jr. to explain why communicating purpose first inspires people to follow, buy or commit more than listing features. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4ZoJKF_VuA **Tags:** leadership, golden-circle, purpose, inspiration, communication ### 3. How great leaders inspire action Simon Sinek's 2009 TEDx talk introducing the golden circle: why purpose precedes method and product in persuasion. As a model of presentation craft, it shows a single idea carried by repetition, drawing, and restraint. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qp0HIF3SfI4 **Tags:** public-speaking, persuasion, storytelling, ted-talk, leadership ### 4. The Power of Vulnerability **Author:** Brené Brown Researcher Brene Brown reports on six years of qualitative work on shame and connection, arguing that people who feel worthy of belonging are those willing to be vulnerable. Viewers get a research account, not a set of techniques. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCvmsMzlF7o **Tags:** vulnerability, shame-resilience, empathy, ted-talk, connection ## Podcasts ### 1. Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast **Author:** Craig Groeschel Podcast in which Life.Church pastor Craig Groeschel teaches short practical leadership lessons on developing people, building team culture, managing time and energy, making decisions and structuring organizations. Listeners get concrete habits and questions they can apply to leading themselves and a team. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** en-us | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.life.church/leadershippodcast **Tags:** leadership-development, team-building, organizational-leadership, time-management ### 2. Engineering and Leadership Podcast **Author:** Pat Sweet, P.Eng, MBA, CSEP, PMP A podcast by engineer Pat Sweet on the non-technical side of engineering careers: leadership, management, business acumen, productivity and professional development. Episodes help practising engineers prepare for supervisory roles and apply management practices in technical organisations. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** en-US | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.engineeringandleadership.com/ **Tags:** engineering-leadership, engineering-management, career-development, productivity ### 3. Coaching for Leaders **Author:** Dave Stachowiak Weekly interview podcast hosted by Dave Stachowiak since 2011, featuring authors and experienced leaders on managing people, giving feedback, coaching conversations, delegation and leading through career transitions. Listeners pick up practical techniques for developing their own leadership and coaching the people they manage. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** en-US | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://coachingforleaders.com **Tags:** leadership, management, coaching-skills, professional-development, workplace-communication ## Courses ### 1. Leadership Development Kennesaw State University course introducing a 4D leadership development framework, servant, participative, transformational and character-based leadership styles, and crisis leadership. Learners assess their own leadership style and build practical strategies for leading teams through uncertainty and organizational change. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.coursera.org/learn/developing-leadership-framework **Tags:** courses, business-entrepreneurship, leadership ### 2. Foundations of Leadership **Author:** Alton Harris, Barton Michelson Johns Hopkins course on leadership theory for senior technical roles: trait and skills approaches, situational leadership, ethical decision-making, path-goal and leader-member exchange theories, and transformational, servant, and adaptive leadership. Learners apply these models to assess their own leadership. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.coursera.org/learn/foundations-of-leadership **Tags:** leadership-theory, transformational-leadership, servant-leadership, ethical-leadership, situational-leadership ### 3. Leadership and Organizational Behavior **Author:** Elliott Kruse Tecnológico de Monterrey course on the psychology of work applied to leadership: personality and values, leadership styles, job design, power and politics, persuasion and influence, motivation and emotions. Learners develop a situational leadership style and learn to motivate and persuade others credibly. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.edx.org/learn/leadership/tecnologico-de-monterrey-leadership-and-organizational-behavior **Tags:** leadership-styles, organizational-behavior, motivation, influence-and-persuasion, workplace-psychology --- *This content is part of Dantes.io - Your Treasure Map to Knowledge* *Curated by humans at Dantes.io. Personal study use welcome; republishing this curation requires permission (team@dantes.io).* View this page online: https://dantes.io/subject/leadership-development