Leadership & Resiliency Skills:
A Handout for TLA 2016
Assessing Your Leadership Skills
Quick Tips for Personal Leadership Development
- Engage in positive thinking.
- Get involved in a professional learning community.
- Be a life-long learner.
- Practice reflective thinking.
- Find a mentor.
- Become a mentor.
- Surround yourself with positive people.
- Take calculated risks.
- Master and share your best skill.
- Identify the principles that matter to you.
- Model the principles that matter to you.
Additional Readings
Recommended Leadership Websites
Center for Creative Leadership- http://insights.ccl.org/blog/
International Leadership Organization- http://www.ila-net.org/
Leadership Now- http://leadershipnow.com/
The Leadership Challenge- http://www.leadershipchallenge.com/home.aspx
Recommended Leadership Books
Bass, B. M., & Bass, R. (2009). The Bass handbook of leadership: Theory, research, and managerial applications. Simon and Schuster.
Kouzes, J., & Posner, B. (2012). The leadership challenge: How to make extraordinary things happen. Atlanta, GA: Better World Books.
Johnson, S. (2002). Who moved my cheese?: An amazing way to deal with change in your work and in your life. New York: Putnam.
Recommended Resiliency Resources
How Resilience Works (Article)- https://hbr.org/2002/05/how-resilience-works&cm_sp=Article-_-Links-_-End%20of%20Page%20Recirculation
Resiliency.com- http://www.resiliency.com/what-is-resiliency/
The Resilience Center- https://www.resiliencescale.com/
The Resilient Leader (Article)- http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational-leadership/dec11/vol69/num04/The-Resilient-Leader.aspx