The Office of Leadership and Community Engagement has compiled a number of virtual leadership development resources that offers a diverse range of resources for student organizations, classes, and individuals.
This virtual leadership library is a centralized resource of online assessments, courses, articles, videos, etc. for students, faculty, and staff about topics relating to leadership.
Additionally, there are a variety of national organizations and quality resource websites dedicated to leadership development provided here. These resources will be updated regularly so if you see something that we’ve missed, please email us about that and include the link to the resource you would like us to include. We can be reached at southernleaders@georgiasouthern.edu.
Leadership Videos
These Leadership Videos focus on talks from some of the world’s most renowned people in their fields illusrating leadership competencies. These have been put together to provide you a resources for your own personal development and may be used as part of a leadership development activity for your student organizations or future class presentations.
Leadership Webinars
- Leadership for Social Change: Lessons from a Latina Leader – Dr. Maria Guajardo
- Finding Your Inner Leader: The Enneagram and Leadership – Sarajane Case, Enneagram & Coffee
Leadership Chats
These videos are short conversations with leaders from various backgrounds to gather their unique insights on leadership from their field. We will also talk about leadership in relationship to our current world.
- Leadership Chat with Dr. John Lester – Georgia Southern Vice President of University Communications and Marketing
- Leadership Chat with Mayor Jonathan McCollar – Mayor of Statesboro, Georgia
- Leadership Chat with Congressman Buddy Carter – U.S. Representative, Georgia’s 1st District
- Leadership Chat with Bill Hubbard – President and CEO of the Savannah Chamber of Commerce
Leadership Talks
- Grit: The Power of Passion & Perserverance – Angela Duckworth @ TED
- Great Leadership Starts With Self-Leadership – Lars Sudmann @ TEDxUCLouvain
- The Inner Journey to Leadership – Leslie Stein @ TEDxFremontEastWomen
- Why Good Leaders Make You Feel Safe – Simon Sinek @ TED
- Why We Have Too Few Women Leaders – Sheryl Sandberg @ TED
- The Power of Time Off – Stefan Sagmeister @ TEDGlobal
- The Danger of a Single Story – Chimamanda Adichie @ TED
- The Essence of Leadership – Gen. Colin Powell (segment of lecture)
- Great Leadership Comes Down to Only Two Rules – Peter Anderton @ TEDxDerby
- The Rarest Commodity is Leadership Without Ego – Bob Davids @ TEDxESCP
- Leading with Laughter: The Power of Humor in Leadership – Paul Osincup @ TEDxNapaValley
- Success, Failure and the Drive to Keep Creating – Elizabeth Gilbert @ TED
- Everyday Leadership – Drew Dudley @ TEDxToronto
- How Apple Managed People – Steve Jobs (segment of interview)
- A Guerilla Gardener in South Central LA – Ron Finley @ TEDxLongBeach
- The Surprising Habits of Original Thinkers – Adam Grant @ TED
- Start With Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Action – Simon Sinek @ TEDxPugetSound
Did We Miss Your Favorite?
This list of leadership videos is also certainly not a complete list of quality leadership videos available online so if we’ve missed one of your favorities, please email us the link at southernleaders@georgiasouthern.edu.
Online Leadership Development
Free Online Assessments
- Student Leadership Competencies Inventory
- Student Leadership Competencies 360 Evaluation
- Personal Values Assessment – Life Values Inventory
- Personality Test
- Leadership Style Assessment
- Leadership Skills Test
Free Leadership Courses
- Leadership Challenges in Turbelent Times – Certificate of Completion Available
- Leadership and Followership – Digital Badge and Certificate of Completion Available
- Organizational Leadership and Change – MIT (Graduate level course)
- Building and Leading Effective Teams – MIT (Graduate level course)
- Gender, Power, Leadership & the Workplace – MIT (Undergraduate course)
- 30 Day Growth Plan – John Maxwell’s 30 Day Growth Plan to jumpstart personal growth
Great Leadership Online Resources
Below are a few links to leadership-related web sites that focus on issues and concerns of student leaders:
- Center for Creative Leadership – A non-profit leadership to advance the understanding, practice and development of leadership for the benefit of society worldwide
- Greenleaf Center for Servant-Leadership – Goal is to fundamentally improve the caring and quality of all institutions through a new approach to leadership, structure, and decision making.
- National Clearinghouse for Leadership Programs – Provides a central clearinghouse of leadership materials, resources, and assistance to leadership educators.
- LeaderShape – Offers the highest quality state-of-the-art leadership programs focused on men and women ages 17-25.
- HR.com – provides great webcasts on topics related to leadership specifically focused in the workplace. You can create a free account as a student and view many of their webcasts and virtual events, which many include certificates of completion.
- Teampedia – Great online resource for team building activities, ice breakers, etc. that you can use for any leadership development.
Leadership Articles
Popular Leadership Articles
- 4 Ways Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz Puts Employees 1st
- 5 Ways to Lead Your Team More Effectively
- 5 Ideas That Can Accelerate Your Leadership
- 6 Ideas from Creative Thinkers to Share Up Your Work Routine
- 6 Things Great Leaders Do Differently
- How to Give Feedback People Can Actually Use
- Improve Your Leadership IQ
- Talent Takes Effort
- Ten ‘Leadership’ Ideas That Kill Corporate Cultures
- The Most Important Leadership Competencies, According to Leaders Around the World
- The World’s Most Successful Women Share Their Best Career Advice
- Why Sports Builds Leadership
Academic Leadership Journals
- Journal of Leadership Education – all articles can be read free online
- Journal of Leadership Studies – available online through the University Libraries
- The Leadership Quarterly – open access available online
- The Journal of Character & Leadership Development – available online