Leadership and Strategy

• Exploring Leadership
  For professional service managers who currently lead a team of staff and/or who are responsible for delivering a university service (typically grades J-L).
• Bristol Senior Leaders
  For professional services and academic staff for whom leadership is a significant part of their current or next role (typically grades L-M).
• Female Leadership Initiative (FLi)
  FLi is an internally-run development programme for those who identify as women. The programme is open to professional services and academic staff at any grade or career-stage. It aims at those who wish to hone their level of self-awareness and personal insight in order to develop their personal leadership style and influence. Applications for the 2019-20 programme are now open.
• Aurora (Advance HE programme)
  This external programme, operated by Advance HE, is aimed at mid-career female academic and professional services staff wishing to develop their leadership skills and key competencies. Applications for the 2019-20 programme are now open.

• KnowHow resources on Leadership
  Our KnowHow library contains hundreds of insightful leadership resources on topics such as change management, innovation, partnership working and managing talent.
• 'Someone I can rely on': Stories of leading and being led at a research-intensive university
  This engaging book chapter by Professor Alan Floyd and Dilly Fung is drawn from data taken from an LFHE study into academics' experiences of 'good' and 'bad' leadership at a prominent university.
• 'Dare to Disagree'
  Most people instinctively avoid conflict, but as Margaret Heffernan shows us in this inspiring TED talk, good disagreement is central to progress.
• 'Mindful Self-Awareness as the Basis for Effective Leadership'
  Research article examining the impact of mindfulness on leadership effectiveness by Dr. Matthew Lippincott
• TED Leadership playlists
  A curated playlist of the most enlightening and insightful TED talks on the topic of leadership.
• 'Coaching for Performance'
  John Whitmore's classic text on the principles and practices of coaching and leadership