--- title: Leadership Skills description: Leadership skills encompass the strategies, communication styles, and decision-making processes used to guide and motivate groups. Learners will understand how to delegate tasks, inspire team members, and manage organizational change. category: personal-development subcategory: life-skills difficulty: beginner, intermediate, advanced url: /subject/leadership-skills --- # Leadership Skills Leadership skills encompass the strategies, communication styles, and decision-making processes used to guide and motivate groups. Learners will understand how to delegate tasks, inspire team members, and manage organizational change. ## Available Resources 2 Videos • 3 Books • 1 Courses • 3 Websites • 1 Papers ## Videos ### 1. 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 ### 2. 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 ## Books ### 1. Leadership Without Easy Answers **Author:** Ronald A. Heifetz Heifetz separates technical problems, solvable by existing expertise, from adaptive challenges that require people to change values and habits. Covers regulating distress, giving the work back to the group, and exercising leadership with or without formal authority. **Difficulty:** Advanced | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid **Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0674518586?tag=edmonddante07-20 **Tags:** adaptive-leadership, leadership-theory, organizational-change, authority, public-leadership ### 2. Turn the Ship Around! A True Story of Turning Followers into Leaders **Author:** L. David Marquet A nuclear submarine captain replaces leader-follower command with intent-based leadership aboard USS Santa Fe: pushing decision authority to whoever holds the information, plus the technical competence and clarity of purpose that make that delegation safe. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid **Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0241250943?tag=edmonddante07-20 **Tags:** intent-based-leadership, delegation, empowerment, military-leadership, organizational-culture ### 3. High Output Management **Author:** Andrew S. Grove Intel's CEO treats management as a production process: a manager's output is the output of their organization, raised through leverage, one-on-ones, decision-making meetings, performance review, and dual reporting structures. The origin of OKRs and standing one-on-ones. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid **Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0679762884?tag=edmonddante07-20 **Tags:** management, managerial-leverage, one-on-ones, okrs, performance-reviews, decision-making ## Papers ### 1. Psychological Safety and Learning Behavior in Work Teams (Edmondson, 1999) **Author:** Amy C. Edmondson The Administrative Science Quarterly study that defined team psychological safety, tested across 51 teams in a manufacturing firm. Shows the shared belief that interpersonal risk is safe drives learning behavior, which mediates team performance. **Difficulty:** Advanced | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://web.mit.edu/curhan/www/docs/Articles/15341_Readings/Group_Performance/Edmondson%20Psychological%20safety.pdf **Tags:** psychological-safety, team-learning, team-performance, organizational-behavior, empirical-research ## Websites ### 1. Following the Data: The Research Behind Great Managers (Google re:Work) Google's People Analytics team explains Project Oxygen: the data behind ten manager behaviors that predicted team outcomes, how those behaviors were validated internally, and the related Project Aristotle findings on what makes teams effective. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://rework.withgoogle.com/intl/en/guides/following-the-data-the-research-behind-great-managers **Tags:** people-analytics, project-oxygen, project-aristotle, management-behaviors, team-effectiveness ### 2. 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 ### 3. 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 ## Courses ### 1. Leading with Purpose Five-module University of Colorado Boulder course on self-leadership, taught by Ron Duren Jr., covering personal purpose, mortality and meaning, legacy, core values and mastery over perfectionism. Learners write a purpose statement, leadership impact statement and personal ethos to guide how they lead others. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.coursera.org/learn/leading-oneself-with-purpose-and-meaning **Tags:** courses, business-entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship --- *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-skills