Refresh your knowledge
Be inspired and refresh your learning by dipping into our range of leadership resources, from books, reports and useful links, to videos, Ted Talks and podcasts.
These resources are just a starting point – If you spot something of interest you would like to share with the network or an article for the book club, please send it through to the hub.
Useful Links
Leadership competencies
Guidance
Institute for Voluntary Action Research (IVAR)
Association of Chairs
Risk of Insolvency – what Chairs need to know
Building resilience in your charity – the challenges of Covid- 19
Beacon events: series of webinars and online peer and expert surgeries
Top tips: board meetings during coronavirus crisis
Beyond the basics: how Chairs can make online meetings work for their board teams
Videos/Podcasts
TMS Development International
Guest Webinar : How do we support teams and leaders in a post-pandemic world?
Open University
Centre for Voluntary Sector Leadership videos & webinars on leadership
Collaborative leadership resources for Small Charity Week and beyond
TED Talks
What it takes to be a great leader: Roselinde Torres
10 guiding principles for leaders
ACEVO
Leadership worth sharing podcasts
CIPD
Leading and communicating through crisis
The Institute of Leadership & Management
Documents & Publications
Clore Social Leadership
Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland
Diversity and inclusion in organisational leadership: Evidence from Third Sector Trends 2020
ACEVO
Financial Governance: a gentle guide for the non-financial charity trustee
The Chief Executives first 100 days
How to become a third sector CEO
Racial diversity in the charity sector, 2018
All Party Parliamentary Group on Charities and Volunteering
Cranfield School of Management
Leadership in unprecedented times
Institute for Voluntary Action Research (IVAR)
Getting started with collaboration: a framework for joint action by Sonakshi Anand, Eliza Buckley, IVAR 2019
NCVO
NCVO UK Civil Society Almanac 2019
Looking to the future: Leadership and values
UK Workforce Hub
National Occupational Standards for Trustees in the Voluntary Sector
Garfield Weston Foundation & Pilotlight
Small Charity Leaders Insight report 2019
Employers Network for Equality & Inclusion (enei)
Inclusive Leadership… driving performance through diversity!
Blogs
Charity Digital
How leadership has changed during Covid-19
McKinsey & Company
Leadership in a crisis: responding to the coronavirus outbreak and future challenges
Getting on Board
We don’t talk enough about power in the voluntary sector
ThirdSector
There is confusion about leadership, but enormous potential in the sector, says report
ACEVO
Managing remote teams during Covid-19
The Guardian
Times are tough, so voluntary sector leaders need to learn to collaborate
NCVO
Courses
Institute for Voluntary Action Research (IVAR)
Free peer support sessions for VCSE leaders
Open University PhD Scholarships
Gender, ethnicity and class inequalities in Covid-19 work lives
Collaboration and Civil Society post Covid-19