Resources and support
The resources below have been carefully curated to provide you with interesting and relevant advice and guidance to support your development as a leader.
The Chartered Management Institute
The Chartered Management Institute CMI) website
The CMI website offers expert guidance, resources, tools, and insights to support managers and leaders at every career stage.
Understanding management and leadership styles checklist
A practical guide exploring different management and leadership styles, their impact, and how to adapt them to diverse workplace situations.
CMI Professional Standards Framework
Outlines the key competencies, behaviours, and values expected of modern managers and leaders, helping you benchmark and plan your development.
CMI Knowledge and Insights
Explore the latest research, trends, and thought leadership shaping the future of management and leadership practice.
Useful websites
Offers leadership resources, insights, and accreditation to support learning, development, and professional growth at all levels.
Provides research-based insights, thought leadership, and articles on a wide range of leadership topics including ethical leadership, innovation, and change management.
TED Talks – Leadership Playlist
A curated collection of inspiring talks from global leaders and thinkers, exploring leadership styles, courage, vision, and emotional intelligence
Podcasts we love
Conversations with change-makers exploring vulnerability, courage, and values-driven leadership to inspire more authentic, connected, and brave workplace cultures.
Organisational psychologist Adam Grant explores how to make work more meaningful through evidence-based insights, stories, and workplace experiments.
Empowering podcast featuring women leaders sharing stories, strategies, and mindset shifts to inspire confidence and success in aspiring female leaders.
The High Performance Podcast
Hosted by Jake Humphrey and Professor Damian Hughes, this top-charting UK podcast delves into mindset, habits, and leadership lessons from elite performers.
Inspirational TedTalks
How to manage for collective creativity, Linda Hill
Linda explores how leaders can foster innovation by encouraging collaboration, embracing diversity, and creating environments where everyone feels empowered to contribute.
How great leaders innovate responsibly, Ken Chenault
Emphasises responsible leadership and inclusive innovation, showing how trust, purpose, and values guide decision-making in times of change and uncertainty.
The power of vulnerability, Brené Brown:
Brené reveals how embracing vulnerability strengthens human connection, trust, and courage—core foundations for wholehearted, ethical, and emotionally intelligent leadership.
The Power of Introverts, Susan Cain
Susan highlights the value introverted leaders bring, challenging assumptions about charisma and celebrating quiet strength, reflection, and deep focus in leadership.
Why Good Leaders Make You Feel Safe, Simon Sinek
Simon argues that great leaders create environments of trust and psychological safety, where people feel secure, valued, and able to perform.
Leadership book of the month
April: Leaders Eat Last by Simon Sinek
Inspirational leadership and business management expert Simon Sinek explores how leaders who prioritise trust, safety, and service build resilient teams and organisations with strong purpose and loyalty.
March: The Power of Ethical Management by Kenneth Blanchard and Norman Vincent Peale
This practical book explores how integrity, honesty, and ethical decision-making are essential for long-term success in leadership, business, and personal effectiveness.
February: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey
This classic guide to personal and professional effectiveness offers a principles-based framework for self-leadership, influence, and sustainable success.
January: How to Talk to Anybody by Derek Borthwick
This book teaches skills on being able to talk to different people in different scenarios, mastering small talk, successfully talk to difficult people and improve communication skills.
Open-source resources
Introduction to Lego Serious Play
A guide to a creative, hands-on methodology using LEGO® to explore identity, ideas, and problem-solving through storytelling, reflection, and collaborative model-building.
Free course from the OU: Leadership and Followship
Explores leadership and followership theories, styles, and behaviours through free, self-paced learning with practical examples and reflection activities.
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