Index by Content Type

Practical

• Centre for Leadership for Women
  - An interactive website to encourage and support women as leaders.
• Community Workers Handbook – Strengthening Community Work
  - A collection of policy, strategies, methodology, curriculum, management and planning material useful for community empowerment or development programmes, written by Dr Phil Bartle, Phd.
• Definitions of Community Leadership
  - Effective community leadership is increasingly recognised in Australia as elsewhere, as an important contributor to local social development.
• Developing Leadership in Students and Staff
  - A presentation by Diann Rodgers-Healey which focuses on developing leadership in two areas - in students and staff - in a school environment.
• Directory of Community Leadership Programs in NSW
  - Community Leadership Programs detailed in this directory provide for developing the skills of existing leaders; emerging youth leaders and emerging leaders from under-represented groups in the community.
• Facing the Leadership Challenge
  - Charlotte Young of the School for Social Entrepreneurs explains the emotional dynamics of leadership.
• Greenleaf Centre for Servant Leadership
  - The primary goal of the Greenleaf Centre is to influence and enhance leadership potential within individuals and institutions through the synergy of serving and leading.
• Interview with Leaders - Linda Jean Burney
  - 'I don’t actually call myself a leader, I prefer to describe myself as an Aboriginal person that’s in a leadership position. I think that’s due to the fact that leadership is a really Western construct for Aboriginal people, it’s often something that the media or White Australia dubs you as, instead of the Aboriginal community saying ‘you are one of the leaders we see’. Linda Jean Burney, HonDEd, DipEd MP.
• Leadership and Older Women
  - Four discussion guides on leadership and capacity building for older women.
• Leadership in Australia - Interview with Robyn Gaspari
  - "Our leadership in Australia is not good and we have a lot of work to do in building up the standard of leadership. It is not anybody's fault we just haven't focused on training leaders." Robyn Gaspari.
• Life matters: leadership in small communities
  - An audio discussion on the challenges and possibilities of modern leadership in changing rural communities.

Case Studies

• Grameen Bank and its Founder, Muhammad Yunus, win Nobel Peace Prize 2006
  - The Nobel Peace Prize for 2006, has been awarded, divided into two equal parts, to Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank of Bangladesh for their efforts to create economic and social development from below.
• Symposium 2001 - Dr Mamphela Ramphele
  - A View from Africa. Speech presented at the NSW Centenary of Federation, Holding Together Series of International Speakers.
• Symposium 2001 - Professor Ariel Dorfman
  - A South American Perspective. Speech presented at the NSW Centenary of Federation, Holding Together Series of International Speakers.
• Symposium 2001 - Professor Norman Davies
  - An English-Irish-Scottish-Welsh Perspective. Speech presented at the NSW Centenary of Federation, Holding Together Series of International Speakers.

Related Reading

• 12 Insights into Leadership for Women
  - This paper, released to celebrate International Women's Day 2003, is based on research conducted by the Centre for Leadership for Women.
• Boyer Lectures (ABC Radio)
  - Every year since 1959 the ABC has invited a prominent Australian to present their thinking on major cultural, social, scientific or political issues in the Boyer lectures.
• Leadership Redefined
  - The Australian Rural Leadership Foundation enjoys a good reputation, particularly within rural and regional Australia, based on the achievements of its graduates. The Foundation has been asked to assist with a range of leadership development initiatives within rural and regional Australia.
• Leadership and Group Dynamics
  - What makes groups of people work well together?