The Leading Libraries series covers four leadership capabilities for collaborative and distributed leadership practice. These were developed from the core ideas covered in 'The 21st Century Public Servant' [Needham, C., & Mangan, C. (2014). The 21st century public servant. Birmingham: University of Birmingham].
This module introduces the Leading Libraries programme and the series of online learning modules, outlining the programme intentions, the four capabilities and their origins along with guidance on how to use the materials.
The four capabilities are:
- Leading for Resilience
- Leading for Dialogue
- Leading for Inclusion
- Leading for Innovation.
As a leader, the good news is that you can improve your own ability to bounce back from adverse events, upsets and reversals of fortune and, at the same time, improve the resilience of your own teams and organisations.
The Leading for resilience set contains the following modules:
- An introduction to resilience factors
- Emotional resilience – maintaining balance
- Mental resilience – inner dialogue and limiting beliefs
- Relationship resilience – conversations for change
- Social resilience – conditions for healthy groups.
Regardless of your role, this module will enhance your ability to bring all your work conversations into a more participative, collaborative style, whether you are running a large workshop or simply catching up with a peer about something they need help on.
The Leading for dialogue set contains the following modules:
- Leading through dialogue
- The art of listening
- Skilful conversing
- Holding a space for dialogue.
Inclusive leaders recognise the nature and impact of their own identity, power and privilege, and how they can work with it to create a level playing field for all people in society. Inclusive leaders take time and care to better understand the lived experiences of people they lead, and are aware of how power and privilege is distributed in teams and systems in order to address imbalances.
The Leading for inclusion set contains the following modules:
- Inclusion & inclusive leadership
- Challenges to inclusive practice
- Power and privilege
- Developing allyship.
Innovation is much more than 'leading change' – modern public sector innovation approaches are also about creating a new sense of collaboration between service providers and the citizens they serve.
The Leading for innovation set contains the following modules:
- The innovation cycle
- Inquiry and reflection
- Ideation and creativity
- Prototyping and experimentation.